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OWM Programs and Core Areas
OWM is organized and operates within five (5) main programs: International Legal Metrology, Laboratory Metrology, Laws and Regulations, Legal Metrology Devices, and Metric (SI). In practice, OWM works with our customers and stakeholders to design, develop, promote, and deliver: technical specifications and tolerances for weighing and measuring devices; uniform laws and regulations, methods of sale, and test procedures for a wide variety of commodities; training for laboratory metrologists and weights and measures officials; uniformity and harmonization of legal metrology principles (national and international); and usage of the International System of Units (SI or metric system).