Special Session #4

Nicola Paone

Università Politecnica delle Marche

Italy

On-line quality control is a fundamental element of Industry 4.0 manufacturing and today quality control is often done on 100% of the production, not only at the end of the line, but also upstream, on components and sub-assemblies.
On-line quality control systems are made of hardware and software components able to acquire a physical quantity, such as sensors and transducers and the relative mechatronic devices used to perform a test sequence and take measurements, the data acquisition electronics for the signal A/D conversion and the software environment for the setting of the system parameters (like sampling frequencies, acquisition time windows, gains, sensor set-up, etc.) and for the following diagnostic process.
Smart quality control systemscan be designed to exhibit at local level (single quality control station) real-time adaptive behaviors to keep measurement uncertainty under control even in case of variations of process or product or instrument parameters, pre-process data to derive synthetic quality indicators, implement self-diagnosis and self-calibration to maximize the confidence level of the measurement system output.
This session therefore aims to collect papers describing measurement systems and quality control stations exhibiting smart behaviors, as well as papers dealing with the strategies to implement on-line quality controls (taking into account issues of uncertainty and confidence level of measured data, calibration of measurement systems, smart management of sensors, etc.)and finally algorithms for intelligent diagnostics based on measured data.

Nicola Paone is Full professor of Mechanical and Thermal Measurements.
After graduation in mechanical engineering at Univ. of Ancona (1986) he was a researcher at von Karman Institute for Fluid dynamics (Brussels, 1987) and a research engineer at FIAT Research Center (Turin, 1988); during these first years of his career he started research on development and application of optical and vision based measurement techniques for geometric and kinematic quantities, among which Particle Image Velocimetry, high speed imaging and laser diffraction. In 1989 he became researcher at Univ. of Ancona and in 1992 professor at Univ. of L’Aquila, developing research on optical measurement techniques for mechanical quantities, in particular laser Doppler vibrometry, robot vision, infra-red vision and photoelasticity, applied to different sectors.
In addition to several national funded projects, he has been scientific responsible of 4 European Projects, 3 of which related to manufacturing, in particular to advanced measurement technologies for quality and process control.
He has authored 51 papers on international journals and more than 110 papers at international and national conferences, he is reviewer and evaluator for different international and national funding agencies and referee of several international journals.