Introduction to the ACTA IMEKO issue devoted to selected papers presented in the 14th Joint International IMEKO TC1 + TC7 + TC13 Symposium

This editorial article is a brief introduction to the ACTA IMEKO issue devoted to selected papers presented in the 14th Joint International IMEKO TC1 + TC7 + TC13 Symposium "Intelligent Quality Measurements - Theory, Education and Training". This Symposium took place in Jena, Germany from August 31st to September 2nd 2011 in conjunction with the 56th IWK Ilmenau University of Technology and the 11th SpectroNet Collaboration Forum

New education strategy in quality measurement technique with image processing technologies - chances, applications and realisation

According to the publication “New education strategy in quality measurement technique with image processing technologies” presented on the 14th Joint International IMEKO TC1+TC7+TC13 Symposium, in this paper further issues were discussed. So the theory of quality charts especially with the use of data sets generated with camera sensors are enlarged in this publication. Furthermore an additional application, developed in the department Quality assurance and Industrial Image Processing was added to this issue. The main focus of this paper lays on the realization, how to combine image processing with classical quality assurance methods. To gain the importance of this trial two industrial applications were used to describe the problem. Mostly the technical realization of sensor systems and data processing is completely separated to quality inspection tasks. To close this gap special trainings as well as special parts in the lectures were developed and structured. In sum it ends to one deepening direction, Opto Techniques in the consecutive Master - Bachelor program Optronic on the Ilmenau University of Technology

Development methods for quality measurement tools enabled by Open Source Software

The Free and Open Source Software Movement is currently the most interesting and influential trend in software industry as it enables nearly boundless access to software. On the other side future generations of engineers will need more and more profound software knowledge. The article describes a new education level for engineers in quality assurance developed and applied at the Technische Universität Ilmenau. Through broad application of Open Source Software students without any previous knowledge are enabled to develop a customised multi-layer software system to specific problems of practical relevance. The software system is based on an Office client whether from Microsoft Office or OpenOffice connected with a SQL database server. The paper details which difficulties occurred most often during development and to what extent the developed software solutions could be deployed in industry as a cost efficient alternative