Course detail

Metrology Legal and Industrial

FSI-9MLVAcad. year: 2025/2026

The course focuses on the mastery of metrology in industrial enterprises, with emphasis on the functional control of products and the organisational and technical design of control processes. Students will learn the principles of calibration and verification of various types of measuring instruments. Students will also understand the rules for measuring and evaluating sizes and distances of industrial products, measuring and evaluating deviations in form, orientation, location, run-out and texture evaluation of functional surfaces. Students will be able to formulate requirements for gauges in specific applications and the criteria for evaluating the performance of test and calibration laboratories in industry.

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Róbert Jankových, CSc.

Department

Institute of Production Machines, Systems and Robotics (ÚVSSR)

Entry knowledge

Knowledge of the fundamentals of metrology, engineering and materials is assumed, as is knowledge of physics and applied statistics.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Examination in the area of the problem according to the syllabus and its application in the semester work.
The course is conducted in the form of lectures and consultations, with controlled participation.

Aims

The aim of the subject “Metrology Legal and Industrial “ is the acquisition of theoretical and practical knowledge of legal and industrial metrology in a way, that enables the PhD students to independently solve scientific tasks in the area.
The student will gain extensive and complex knowledge of legal and industrial metrology, which will enable them to solve related problems in industrial practice with erudition.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan and Jayaraman Raja. Computational Surface and Roundness Metrology. Berlin: Springer, 2009. ISBN: 978-1-84800-296-8. (EN)
BUCHER, Jay L., ed. The Metrology Handbook. 2nd ed. Milwauke, Wis: ASQ Quality Press, 2012. ISBN 978-087-3898-386. (EN)
DRBÚL, M., ŠAJGALÍK, M. a kol. Strojárska metrológia a kvalita povrchov vytvorených technológiami obrábania. Žilina: Žilinská univerzita v Žiline, 2014. ITMS 22410320051. (SK)
LEACH, R., ed. Optical measurement of surface topography. Berlin: Springer, 2011. ISBN 978-364-2120-114. (EN)
SŁADEK, Jerzy A. Coordinate metrology: accuracy of systems and measurements. Heidelberg: Springer, 2016. ISBN 978-3-662-48463-0. (EN)
WHITEHOUSE, D. J. Handbook of surface and nanometrology. 2nd ed. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4200-8201-2. (EN)

Recommended reading

CZICHOS, H., SAITO, T. a SMITH, L. E., ed. Springer handbook of metrology and testing. 2nd ed. Berlin: Springer, 2011. ISBN 978-3642166402. (EN)
FARAGO, F. T. a CURTIS, M.A., Handbook of dimensional measurement. 3. ed., 1. print. New York, NY: Industrial Press, 1994. ISBN 08-311-3053-9. (EN)
1. WHITEHOUSE, David. Surfaces and their measurement. [Online-Ausg.]. London: HPS, 2002. ISBN 978-190-3996-010. (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme D-KPI-P Doctoral 1 year of study, winter semester, recommended course

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

20 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Róbert Jankových, CSc.

Syllabus

1. Principles of metrology
2. Statistical tools in metrology
3. Calibration of instruments
4. Verification of instruments (legal metrology)
5. Functional inspection
6. ISO GPS dimension and distance measurement
7. Measurement of geometric tolerance parameters in the ISO GPS system 
8. Surface texture
9. Special measuring instruments in industry
10. Testing laboratories in industry