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DRAFT⚠OIML SMART pilot programme · internal use only · all documents and specifications are drafts and may change without notice

For Educators & Students, on one page

The CIML leave-behind for Educators and Students: the classroom is the system itself, a layered curriculum where you certify a simulated load cell before touching a real instrument, condensed to a single printable sheet.

OIML SMART · the CIML leave-behind · For Educators & Students · www.oimlsmart.org · 2026-09-01

For Educators & Students: the one-pager

The classroom is the system itself. The simulator is a full-fidelity teaching instrument: a virtual load cell (and belt scale, and gas meter) with realistic, configurable physics, temperature cycles leave residuals, creep and hysteresis behave the way the Recommendation describes. Students run the actual certification workflow against it: apply, test, evaluate, issue, with the real app, the real verdict engine, the real certificate chain.

What you do today

Legal metrology is taught from documents and, at best, a borrowed instrument: students read the Recommendation as a PDF, never run its procedures, and meet the certification workflow for the first time on the job.

What changes

  • The simulated instruments behave: realistic physics behind the governed twin interface, configurable failure modes, no hardware to buy or break.
  • Students run the whole chain: the same application wizard, test workbench, evaluation, and certificate the production platform runs.
  • Honesty is the lesson: when something is unprovable, the system says indeterminate, and the class learns why that is the foundation of metrological trust.
  • A layered curriculum: tiers 0 to 5, from the first concepts to the full workflow.

Try it now

What you can use, and what you can run

The classroom and the demo instance are open teaching surfaces; no member category is needed to learn on them. The entitlement matrix (for when your institution participates for real): www.oimlsmart.org/services/who-can-run-what.

Who to talk to

info@oimlsmart.org. Ask about classroom use of the simulator and the curriculum.

Everything on the demo instance is simulated: the cast is fictional and the instance resets nightly. The full page with the performed evidence: www.oimlsmart.org/about/audiences/educators · The CIML tour: www.oimlsmart.org/tour · Printed from the site, 2026-09-01.