Positive Trends for Test & Measurement Equipment

Various research reports for the Test & Measurement Equipment market in India and globally indicate positive trends.

Tests and measurements start at birth, literally. A jingle on the All India Radio in the 1960s, congratulating a new mother on the baby’s weight 3 kilogram (it shunned the use of pound unit), made innovative use of this simple fact to educate the masses about the relevance of the Weights and Measures Department, which is engaged in regulating use of correct weighing and measuring instruments in production, trade and commerce to ensure that exact weight, measure and number of any commodity is provided to any customer as contracted for, or paid for by him. India had enacted the first act, viz., Standards of W&M Act 1956, based on metric system and international system of units recognised by OIML – International Organisation of Legal Metrology.

While the early measuring devices were mechanical like the spring balance still used by scrap dealers and the weighing scales in grocery shops, today the very concept of test and measuring instruments has changed with the low cost and hence popular electronic scales electrical parameters, moving coil/iron instruments, though still in use, are being replaced gradually by electronic digital devices.