WCSIM is a supporter of the Metrology for World-Class Manufacturing Awards (incorporating the NPL Awards for Measurement).

A new body, the National Measurement Forum, has been established to bring together the principal stakeholders in the National Measurement System, including representatives from industry, DTI, the national laboratories and UKAS to act as a steering committee.

WCSIM is an active participant in the National Measurement Partnership, and in the National Measurement Forum, where its standing representative is Senior Warden, Professor Ray Hills. Malcolm Hunt is also Chairman of the Forum.

The National Measurement System (NMS) is the technical and organisational infrastructure which ensures a consistent and internationally recognised basis for measurement in the UK. It has two central objectives:

• to enable individuals and organisations in the UK to make measurements competently and accurately and to demonstrate the validity of such measurements; and
• to co-ordinate the UK's measurement system with the measurement systems of other countries.