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Digital Calibration Certificates Pilot

Piloting machine-readable digital calibration certificates in volunteer laboratories so that calibration data flows securely between institutes and their clients.

Sep 2025 – Mar 2027 30% complete AFRIMETS Secretariat MAGMET NEWMET

About the project

Progress to date30%

The pilot adopts the international digital calibration certificate format and tests it end to end: issuing, signing, exchanging and verifying certificates between laboratories and industrial clients.

Lessons from the pilot feed into a regional guideline so that institutes can adopt digital certificates in a consistent way.

Objectives

  • Issue and verify digital calibration certificates in the pilot laboratories
  • Agree a common data model for the region
  • Publish a regional implementation guideline

Expected results

  • Pilot laboratories issuing digital certificates
  • Regional guideline adopted by the Technical Committee
  • Training material for further roll-out

Milestones · 1 of 4 reached

  1. Pilot laboratories selected 31 October 2025 · Reached
  2. Data model agreed 28 February 2026 · Planned
  3. First certificates exchanged 31 August 2026 · Planned
  4. Regional guideline published 31 March 2027 · Planned

Partners

  • Lead: AFRIMETS Secretariat
  • Technical Committee on Digital Metrology
  • Pilot national metrology institutes
  • Funding: Development partner support