Engineering for a changing world: 60th Ilmenau Scientific Colloquium, Technische Universität Ilmenau, September 04-08, 2023 : programme

In 2023, the Ilmenau Scientific Colloquium is once more organised by the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The title of this year’s conference “Engineering for a Changing World” refers to limited natural resources of our planet, to massive changes in cooperation between continents, countries, institutions and people – enabled by the increased implementation of information technology as the probably most dominant driver in many fields. The Colloquium, supplemented by workshops, is characterised but not limited to the following topics: – Precision engineering and measurement technology Nanofabrication – Industry 4.0 and digitalisation in mechanical engineering – Mechatronics, biomechatronics and mechanism technology – Systems engineering – Productive teaming - Human-machine collaboration in the production environment The topics are oriented on key strategic aspects of research and teaching in Mechanical Engineering at our university

Modern tools for improving comparability and stability of in vitro diagnostic tests

Quality assurance in the clinical laboratory is essential to guarantee appropriate interpretation of clinical tests. In that regard, internal quality control and external quality assessment have earned a well-established position. However, these tools don’t necessarily reflect the reality of patient testing due to commutability issues. We have, therefore, proven that the Empower project is a valid tool to circumvent that problem. When this project is integrated in the quality control environment, it can establish a bottom-up approach to quality assessment which facilitates collaboration between laboratories and in vitro diagnostic manufacturers. It has the potential to create reliable evidence about the intrinsic quality of assays and how this quality is sustained under field conditions. The Percentiler and Flagger are efficient tools for monitoring of the mid- to long-term stability of assays, instruments, calibrators, and reagents. In addition, they create evidence about the reasons for the observed variation (lab or manufacturer performance), and translate the effect of analytical instability on the flagging rate. Although some issues, such as population variation and stratification differences, must still be taken into account, clinical laboratories can use these tools to directly relate analytical instabilities to their effect on the patient medians and on the hypo-and hyper-flagging rates. Therefore, these tools can be applied as a stimulus for both laboratories and manufacturers to work towards improved assay stability. The Master Comparison surveys, which focus on the current standardization and comparability status of commonly used commercial assays, showed that even for “simple” clinical chemistry measurands such as enzymes and electrolytes, the standardization and harmonization status of certain assays is still a matter of concern and there is much room for improvement

Shaping the future by engineering: 58th IWK, Ilmenau Scientific Colloquium, Technische Universität Ilmenau, 8 - 12 September 2014 ; programme

Druckausgabe erschienen im Universitätsverlag Ilmenau: Shaping the future by engineering : 58th IWK, Ilmenau Scientific Colloquium, Technische Universität Ilmenau, 8 - 12 September 2014 ; programme / Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technische Universität Ilmenau. [Hrsg.: Peter Scharff. Red.: Andrea Schneider] Ilmenau : Univ.-Verl. Ilmenau, 2014. - 155 S. ISBN 978-3-86360-085-

Applications and Experiences of Quality Control

The rich palette of topics set out in this book provides a sufficiently broad overview of the developments in the field of quality control. By providing detailed information on various aspects of quality control, this book can serve as a basis for starting interdisciplinary cooperation, which has increasingly become an integral part of scientific and applied research

NASA SBIR abstracts of 1990 phase 1 projects

The research objectives of the 280 projects placed under contract in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 1990 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 program are described. The basic document consists of edited, non-proprietary abstracts of the winning proposals submitted by small businesses in response to NASA's 1990 SBIR Phase 1 Program Solicitation. The abstracts are presented under the 15 technical topics within which Phase 1 proposals were solicited. Each project was assigned a sequential identifying number from 001 to 280, in order of its appearance in the body of the report. The document also includes Appendixes to provide additional information about the SBIR program and permit cross-reference in the 1990 Phase 1 projects by company name, location by state, principal investigator, NASA field center responsible for management of each project, and NASA contract number