Measuring, monitoring, optimizing

Measuring | Monitoring | Optimizing

The Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM develops tailor-made measuring techniques and systems for industry. Many years of experience with optical technologies form the basis for high-tech solutions in the fields of production control, object and shape detection, gas and process technology as well as thermal energy converters.

News

Press Releases

24.3.2021

Industrial application on the horizon: using digital holography to survey moving objects

Digital holography has gained momentum over the past few years. Now, the technology is also being used in industry to accurately measure the topography of objects down to several micrometers. As part of her doctoral work, Dr. Annelie Schiller from the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM demonstrated that this process can also be applied to moving objects. For this research, she has been awarded the Hugo Geiger Prize for outstanding doctoral achievements in the field of applied research.

2.2.2021

Fraunhofer IPM involved in three competitive projects

As part of its AI innovation competition, the state of Baden-Württemberg is supporting a total of 44 projects from SMEs, with the goal of overcoming technical obstacles to the commercialization of artificial intelligence (AI). Fraunhofer IPM serves as a research partner for three of these projects.

3.12.2020

New measurement system for natural gas – quick and accurate

The quality of natural gas can vary greatly. Differences in natural gas reserves can account for these disparities in quality, but they are also increasingly the result of hydrogen infeed from power-to-gas plants. Fraunhofer IPM joined forces with RMA Measuring and Control Technology to develop a measurement system which – in addition to the hydrocarbons contained in gas – can now also detect the proportion of hydrogen present.

1.9.2020

Optical Coordinate Measuring System for Integration into the Production Line

On July 28, Fraunhofer IPM and Fraunhofer IAF, together with the "Optical Systems" chair of the University of Freiburg, launched the MIAME project, in which they aim at developing the world's first optical coordinate measuring machine for the full-surface measurement of large objects on a meter scale. The system will be used to measure components in the production line quickly and with accuracies in the sub-micrometer range.

Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM

»We measure
fast and precisely.«

Annual report 2019/2020