Scope and activity areas

Instrumentation and methods

  • Coordinate measuring machines, form tester, gear measurement
  • Optical measurement techniques:

    • Interferometry: absolute-interferometry, holographic-interferometry, speckle- interferometry, whitelight-interferometry

    Triangulation-techniques e.g.: point triangulation, laser scanning, fringe projection (whitelight scanning), theodolite measuring systems, photogrammetry, moiré measuring techniques

    Focus sensing techniques: auto focus sensors

  • Laser applications: length-, position-, angle-, form-measurement, laser trackers
  • Micro- and nano-metrology, surface texture and its micro characteristics
  • New methods and devices in dimensional metrology: computed tomography and multi- sensor measuring devices
  • Quality-methods and strategies, quality control loops, quality indices, quality costs, quality-circles, continuous-quality-improvement, quality database, quality-data-exchange, knowledge based quality-methods, total-quality-management (TQM)

Traceability and reliability of measurements

  • Calibration and testing methods for measurement and manufacturing devices (measuring machines, machine tools, robots)
  • Standards and artefacts in geometrical dimensional metrology
  • Uncertainty evaluations

Applications

  • Pre-, in- and post-process measurement in production
  • Quality control in manufacturing