Template for an Acta IMEKO event paper ACTA IMEKO ISSN: 2221-870X March 2018, Volume 7, Number 1, 63-64 ACTA IMEKO | www.imeko.org March 2018 | Volume 7 | Number 1 | 63 Editorial to selected papers from the 5th International Conference IMEKO TC16 Jorge C. Torres-Guzman1, Tokihiko Kobata2 1Centro Nacional de Metrología, Queretaro, Mexico. 2National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ) Tsukuba, Japan Section: EDITORIAL Citation: Jorge C. Torres-Guzman, Tokihiko Kobata, Editorial to selected papers from the 5th International Conference IMEKO TC16, Acta IMEKO, vol. 7, no. 1, article 11, March 2018, identifier: IMEKO-ACTA-07 (2018)-01-11 Editor: Dušan Agrež, University of LJUBLJANA, Slovenia Received March 29, 2018; In final form March 29, 2018; Published March 2018 Copyright: © 2018 IMEKO. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited Corresponding author: Jorge C. Torres-Guzman, e-mail: jorge.torres@cenam.mx 1. INTRODUCTION This section is centred on the 5th International Conference IMEKO TC16 which was held in the city of Pereira, Colombia on May 2017. The conference was performed in conjunction with the 6th International Conference of the CCM WG Pressure and Vacuum. The National Institute of Metrology (INM) Colombia organized these conferences. The main objectives of these scientific events and contributions were to present the latest research, to stimulate information exchanges on current activities dedicated to the measurement, calibration and development of pressure and vacuum. The members of the IMEKO TC16 Board identified 8 valuable contributions presented in the Pereira events, for eventual publication in ACTA IMEKO. Their authors were invited to submit extended and updated versions of their selected papers. All of the authors that gave positive responses to this challenge started sending their extended papers to the ACTA IMEKO online submission system at middle of 2017. A great team of reviewers proceeded in successive stages, their task of assessing the papers and submitting their recommendations. The final list of 6 published papers in this issue is a high-quality exhibit of the papers submitted to our Conferences. All the reviewers involved in the process contributed to improve the shape as much as the intrinsic content of the papers. We invite you to continue and increase your partnership with ACTA IMEKO in all levels. 2. ABOUT TC16 The realization of the pressure scale comprises 18 decades, from 10-9 Pa to 109 Pa, this is one of the reasons for which the applications of pressure measurement technology reach into many fields. One example is at the process industry, where all types of manometers and transmitters are found, to measure absolute, gauge and differential pressure. These devices are not only used for the measurement of pressure, but also to control the process. Practice shows that there is an increasing need to carry out international work to homogenize criteria, procedures and uncertainty evaluation to facilitate technical information exchange; to develop projects among groups from different nations; and to support measurements and calibrations for mutual recognition between country's National Metrology Institutes or Accreditation Bodies. This Technical Committee pursues this goal by the organization of different activities. The current members of TC16 are: Dr. Tokihiko Kobata, Chairperson Japan Dr. Jay H. Hendricks, Vice Chairperson USA Dr. María Nieves Medina Martin, Scientific Secretary Spain Dr. Dominik Prazak, Scientific Secretary Czech Republic Dr. Jorge C. Torres-Guzman, Advisor (Past Chairman) Mexico ACTA IMEKO | www.imeko.org March 2018 | Volume 7 | Number 1 | 64 Dr. Sam-Yong Woo Republic of Korea Dr. A. K. Bandyopadhyay India Prof. Giorgio Buonanno Italy Dr. Anita Calcatelli Italy Dr. Marcello Caravaggio Italy Mr. Tawat Changpan Thailand Mr. Michael D. Collins United Kingdom Mr. Alexandre Filipe da Silva Lourenco Portugal Dr. Alaa El-Din A. E. El-Tawil Egypt Dr. Peter Farar Slovakia Dr. John Greenwood United Kingdom Dr. Seung-Soo Hong Republic of Korea Dr. Karl Jousten Germany Dr. Rifat Kangi Turkey Dr. Alper Elkatmis Turkey Dr. Yasin Durgut Turkey Dr. Jean-Claude Legras France Dr. Gianfranco Molinar Italy Dr. Akira Ooiwa Japan Mr. Luiz Hemrique Paraguassu Brazil Dr. Wladimir Sabuga Germany Dr. Marina Sardi Italy Dr. Janez Setina Slovenia Mr. Schalk Smit South Africa Brian Yalisi South Africa Dr. Jiri Tesar Czech Republic Mr. Jos C. G. A. Verbeek The Netherlands Dr. Christian Wuthrich Switzerland Dr. Martin Wuest Liechtenstein Mr. Alvaro Bermudez Coronel Colombia Mr. Mayckol J. Morales Castro Colombia Mr. Pengcheng Zhang China Prof. Davor Zvizdic Croatia Dr. Kenta Arai Japan Dr. Chris Sutton New Zealand Ms. Yanhua Li China Dr. In-Mook Choi Republic of Korea Mr. Pierre Otal France Dr. Fredrik Arrhen Sweden Mr. Hideaki Iizumi Japan Dr. Hiroaki Kajikawa Japan Mr. Martin Girard USA Mr. Michael Bair USA Mr. Jacob Ricker USA Dr. James A. Fedchak USA Mrs. Julia Scherschlight USA Mr. Aykurt Altintas Denmark Mr. Ambrose Okoth Kenya Mrs. Sari Saxholm Finland 3. THE PAPERS The papers included in this special section range from vacuum to high pressure, including barometric pressure. In addition, the papers present work performed experimentally as well as analytically. It is also important to note that their applications are at industrial level and at national metrology institute level. We sincerely hope that all the contributions you will find in the next pages provide you with up-to-date information of your interest. 4. CONCLUSIONS It was an honour for us to act as Guest Editors for a section of ACTA IMEKO, from the perspective of working for a high- profile scientific journal and to promote TC16’s activities. We have to highlight the quality and great flexibility of the electronic submission platform, the most valuable improvement recommendations and comments of the reviewers, the elevated standards for copyediting, proofreading and layout editing services of ACTA IMEKO. We want to express our deepest gratitude and appreciation to the two Editors in Chief that work very hard to make this section possible, Prof. Paul P. L. Regtien and Prof. Dušan Agrež. 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