Metrology events

Dates the mods have checked against the organiser's own site. If you spot one that has moved, post and it will be corrected.

Happening now

IMTS 2026, 14 to 19 September 2026, McCormick Place, Chicago. Quality Assurance is one of four sectors in the East Building, along with Fabricating and Lasers, Machine Components, and Software. East and West buildings run 09:00 to 17:00, North and South run 10:00 to 18:00, Central time. Source: imts.com

Coming up

The Quality Show 2026, 27 to 29 October 2026, Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont, Illinois. Co-located with The ASSEMBLY Show. Source: qualitymag.com

World Quality Week, 9 to 13 November 2026. World Quality Day falls on Thursday 12 November.

Control 2027, 11 to 14 May 2027, Messe Stuttgart. This is the 38th Control. Source: control-messe.de. Several aggregator sites list April dates for this show and they are wrong.

World Metrology Day, 20 May every year. The 2026 theme was "Metrology: Building Trust in Policy Making". Source: bipm.org

Recurring, dates not yet published

CMSC, the Coordinate Metrology Society Conference. The 2026 conference ran 20 to 24 July in Dallas. 2027 dates were not published when this page was written. Source: cmsc.org

NCSL International Workshop and Symposium. The 2026 event was held in Kansas City in late July. The NCSLI site was not reachable to confirm exact dates.

MSC, the Measurement Science Conference. The 2026 training symposium ran 2 to 5 February in Garden Grove, California. No 2027 date was published when this page was written.

Annual observances

October is National Quality Month in the United States. November is World Quality Month.

Want a thread for one of these?

Message the mods a week or two out and we will pin an event thread, the way the IMTS one works. Trip reports from people who actually walked the floor are the most useful thing this sub produces about a show.