How can we measure our health? Quality infrastructure (QI) in the health sector is the focus of International Cooperation’s new video that is now on PTB’s website and on YouTube. Standards, measurements and all the other elements in a QI are essential for healthcare systems to work well. Such elements lead to more safety for…
Here at PTB, we are always finding new ways of doing things. One of these new things involved the design and production of an instructional video on the calibration of infrared thermometers. Our goal was to try and create the film with as little outside assistance as possible. And we are proud to say that…
This is the premise behind our Animatic A World Without Quality Infrastructure.We humans like to close our eyes to unpleasant topics. Nevertheless, we have spent the last few months creating a film that exemplifies some misfortunes. The solution to how such accidents can be avoided is provided in the animatic – it is a functioning…
Wherever you are | Whenever you wish. PTB’s International Cooperation department has commissioned an animated film to sketch a vision of the future and encourage discussions. Roughly speaking, the film is about the ways that the living conditions in our partner countries can be improved in the sense of the Sustainable Development Goals through digitalized…
The focus of World Metrology Day (20 May) is the fundamental change in the International System of Units. As of today, no one can say how much the small platinum cylinder in a safe in Sèvres near Paris is worth – yet, for over a century, this object has told the world what a kilogram…
We have entered the thematic year »African Year of Quality Infrastructure« with intense, exciting film work from East Africa: The film »Quality for Africa – how to trust the invisible« originates from there. One question was at the centre of this for us: How can people trust in the quality of something if they can’t…
Our short film Timur – Spice of Nepal will give you an insight into the project Strengthening quality infrastructure in Nepal. It was created in 2016 together with the Technical Cooperation and the Academy for International Cooperation. The production of Timur – Spice of Nepal was devised as part of our ten-year anniversary between Nepal…