training

EMIS facilitated two extensive training programmes for delegates from Libya and Qatar in 2004.

• Libyan Arab Airlines sent their electronic and non destructive testing standards to EMIS for calibration. Four of their senior engineers also came with the equipment to both witness the calibration and to get training in its use. The programme involved them being in the UK for two weeks and visiting different standards laboratories who specialise on avionics equipment and NDT. The delegates were issued with certificates of attendance at the end of the programme.
• The QAF (Qatar Armed Forces) have an extensive calibration centre located in Doha and the Director is Lt Col Adel Fakhroo who wished to visit calibration facilities in the UK to benchmark his own organisation and to investigate the possibility of achieving their traceability through the UK National Measurement System. EMIS organised a month long programme for Lt Col Adel which included visits to; NPL, Agilent, UKAS, SIRA, Fluke and various other centres of excellence in the UK calibration industry. This was coupled with several formal training courses relating to the implementation of ISO 17025: 1999.

Since then EMIS have been involved with setting up calibration training programmes for engineers from Libya (LAA, Jowfe and EGC), Oman and further delegates from QAF and this will carry through into 2005 and hopefully beyond. The majority of the training is practical and ‘hands on’ although there is an element of theory and the use of software. Each programme is bespoke and arranged depending in the individual needs of each client and the range includes software, DC & LF, RF & Microwave, temperature, pressure and length as well as providing guidance and certification for auditing of calibration and testing laboratories

Photograph of Lt Col Adel Fakhroo during the training programme in the UK