Precision Engineering Workforce Skills Qualifications (PE WSQ)

Graduate Diploma in

Precision Measurements &

Characterisation (PMC)

(12/2016)

Course Modules

1. Geometry Dimensioning & Tolerancing

2. Engineering Optics & Optical Measurements

3. Precision Measurements (Optical)

4. Image Processing and Industrial Vision Inspection

5. Materials Characterisation for PE Industry

Graduate Diploma: Completion of 5 modules, duration 1 year.

Certificate: Completion of each module (~ 42 hours)

6. Color Measurements (New Module)

Applications ( Mechanical design, machining and QC)

Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing

14 GD&T control callouts

Practical measure GD&T errors

For design, machining & QC

Module 1

Precision & quality is not by inspection

Applications ( optics & lighting design and applications)

Engineering Optics

Optical design & Simulation

Illumination Technology

Optical Detection

Fibre Optic Sensing

Module 2

Engineering Optics

Optics design & simulation

Lighting technologies

LED technology

Optical sensors & detectors

Simulation using ZEMAX

Module 2

Making optic sense !

Applications (precision optical measurements)

Measurements Stds

Error & uncertainty analysis

Precision measurement technologies

Laser interferometer technology

Calibration of precision machines

Module 3

Quality validation not inspection !

Applications (Image processing & Vision Inspection)

Image Measurements

2D&3D Vision Inspection

X-ray 2D, 3D & CT

IR measurement technologies

Video image & object tracking

Module 4

IMAGE matters !

Applications (Industrial metallography & characterisations)

Materials & Coating Characterisations

Metallography analysis: SEM,

EDS, XRF…

Plastic & composite materials:

thermal, mech. FTIR, Raman

Thin film characterization:

mech., X-ray, spectrum

Module 5

Subject Matter knowledge

Curriculum

Design &

specify

precision

budget for QC

and

dimensional

metrology

Geometry Dimensioning &

Tolerancing

• Measurement

uncertainty

2D/3D

measurements

Laser

Interferometer

& precision

machine

metrology

Precision Measurements

(Optical)

Metallography &

failure analysis

Plastic and

Composite

material

characterization

Thin film

coating

characterisation

Materials Characterisation for PE Industry

Optical

design &

simulation

Lighting

Technologies

Optical

detection

Fibre optics &

sensing

Engineering Optics

2D/3D vision

inspection

X-ray CT

Thermography

inspection

Video image

inspection &

object tracking

Image Processing &

Industrial Vision Inspection

Modules

Competency

Color Measurement

• Colour theory,

principle and

measurements

• Color

measurements

for industrial

applications

Eligibility (at a fraction of the cost to you)

1. Course fees per module is $3,000 (before course fee funding & GST)

2. One module: Certificate

3. Five modules: Full Graduate Diploma

4. Singaporeans & Permanent Residents (SPRs) are entitled up to

- Companies < 200 staff enjoys 90% course fee funding

- Companies > 200 staff enjoys 70% course fee funding

- Fees are tax deductible & eligible for absentee payroll ($7.5/h)

5. Corporate class can be held at your company and at flexible time.

Benefits to Company

Competent manpower on PE measurements and characterisation Adult Learning: 50% Teaching (classroom training) and 50% Hands-on

Experiments

Hands-on skill directly applicable to PE manufacturing

Uncertainty analysis for quality control and process optimisation

Innovation product design and development

Opportunities to immerse in R&D environment and State of the Art technology

50 local companies (MNCs and SMEs) have sent their staff for the course of

Precision Measurements and Characterisation; received very good feedback.

356 WSQ certificates have been issued to the participants of the

individual modules.

43 participants had completed all 5 modules and were rewarded with

the WSQ Graduate Diploma (till the class of 2012-2013).

Benefits to Company

Strong government (SSG) financial subsidies for all Singaporeans

and Permanent Residents (SPRs).

Companies with staff strength of less than 200 and sponsoring

the employees, they can enjoy up to 90% course fee funding of

the course fee;

Companies with staff strength of more than 200 and sponsoring

the employees, they continue to enjoy up to 70% course fee

funding of the course fee;

Companies can claim for absentee payroll, up to $7.50/hr: enhanced

SME funding: https://www.skillsconnect.gov.sg

The course fees are tax deductible.

Q&A 1. Intake: Every quarterly

2. Duration:

Full graduate diploma course (consisting of 5 modules): ~ 1 year

Each module: ~ 42 hours, 2 evenings per week, extra sessions provided for hands-on

& project;

Conducting of modules at company’s premises and preferred date/time are possible if

the company has 10 or more participants.

3. Subsidies:

Course fee: S$15,000 for 5 modules; S$3,000 for each module.

Up to 95% course fee funding, subject to eligibility criteria

Absentee Payroll is applicable and the course fees are tax deductible

5. Diploma and Certificate:

Diploma: Complete 5 modules (4 core units and 1 elective unit) and pass assessment

Certificate: Complete module and pass assessment

6. Eligible candidature:

Degree holder or polytechnic graduate with 3 years of relevant working experiences

M1 – Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (42 hours)

Session Title of Topics

Topic 1 GD&T Fundamental Concepts And Form Control

S1-S4 GD&T Symbols, Terms And Rules

Datum And Datum System

Form Control

Hands-on 1: Understand The Concepts Of Size And Form Control

Hands-on 2: Inspect The Circularity Of A Part

Hands-on 3:understand The Concept Of Straightness Control On A FOS And Inspection Method

Topic 2 GD&T Position Tolerance Control And Graphic Analysis

S5-S10 GD&T Advantages Over Coordinate Dimensioning

Position Tolerance Control

Graphic Analysis (Paper Gage)

Strategy For Tolerancing Parts

Hands-on 1 :Perform Inspection Of TOP Of Holes And Hole Patterns

Hands-on 2 Inspect Perpendicularity Of A Hole And A Slot

Hands-on 3: Inspect Profile And Symmetry Errors

Topic 3 Orientation, Run-out And Profile Control

S11-S14 Orientation, Run-out And Profile Control

Hands-on 1: Understand The Concepts Of Perpendicularity And Parallelism

Hands-on 2: Inspect Internal/External Runout Control

Hands-on 3: Inspect The Total Runout Errors

M2 – Engineering Optics & Optical Measurements (42 hours)

Session Title of Topics

Topic 1 Optical Design and Simulation

S1-S4 Geometrical Optics, Image Formation And Aberrations

Case Study 1: Measurement Of Focal Length Of Optical Lens

Optical Design And Simulation By ZEMAX

Case Study 2: Design And Optimization Of A Low Cost Eye-piece

Topic 2 Lighting Technologies

S5-S7 Machine Vision Lighting Techniques And Feature Enhancement

Lighting Simulation For Vision Inspection

Design Of LED Illumination

Case Study 3: Enhance The Defects In Vision System By Lighting Techniques

Case Study 4: Lighting Design With Simulation

Topic 3 Optical Detection

S8-S10 Detectors And Detection Electronics

Optical Detection Methods

Case Study 5: Fiber Optical Displacement Sensor

Case Study 6: Photodiode/CCD/CMOS Camera, Signal Detection And Amplification

Topic 4 Fibre Optics Sensing Technologies

S11-S14 Fibre Optics And Fibre Sensors (Fiber Interferometer, Sensor Array, OCT, Gratings)

Industrial Applications (Stress, Strain, Temperature, Chemical, Imaging)

Case Study 7: Fiber Interferometer And Profilometer

Case Study 8: Fiber Sensor Network

M3 – Precision Measurements (Optical)(45 hours)

Session Title of Topics

Topic 1 Measurement Error Analysis, Uncertainty And Traceability

S1-S3 Measurement Uncertainty And Error Reduction Techniques

Metrology Standards And Measurement Traceability

Case Study 1&2: Measurement Uncertainty And Error Reduction Techniques

Topic 2 Dimension And Tolerance Measurements

S4-S5 Coordinate Measurement Machine (CMM)

Case Study 3: Precision Measurements Using CMM

Topic 3 Surface Profile And Roughness Measurements

S6-S12 Patten/Moiré Projection & Interferometer For 3D Surface Profile Measurements

Case Study 4: Interferometer & Moiré 3D Surface Profile Measurements

Surface Roughness Measurements Using Stylus And Focus Variation Techniques

Case Study 5: Stylus And Focusing Variation Surface Roughness Measurements

Confocal 3D Measurement Techniques (Mechanical/Chromatic/Laser Confocal)

Case Study 6: Confocal 3D Surface Measurement

Nanometre Measurement Techniques (AFM, SNOM)

Case Study 7: Nano Scale Surface And Radiation Measurements

Topic 4

S13-S14

Precision Machine Metrology

Laser Displacement Measurement Interferometer (LDMI) And Its Applications

Precision Machine Metrology Technology

Case Study 8: Calibration Of A Precision Machine Using LDMI

M4 – Image Processing and Industrial Vision Inspection (42 hours)

Session Title of Topics

Topic 1 2D/3D Vision Inspection

S1-S8 Introduction Of Digital Imaging And Imaging Hardware

2D Image Processing: Threshold Filter, Enhancement And Freq Domain Processing

Color Image Processing & Camera Calibration Advance Image Processing: Segmentation, Registration, Data Fusion

3D Image Processing: Phase Shifting, Stereo Vision, Structured Patterns

Hands-on 1: Inspector Based Digital Image Processing

Hands-on 2: Color Image Processing Using SIMTech Color Library

Hands-on 3: SIMTech Localized Calibration

Hands-on 4: 3D Reconstruction Using Stereo Vision

Topic 2 X-ray CT

S9-S11 2D & 3D X-ray Image Processing

CT Reconstruction

Automatic Segmentation Of CT Objects Hands-on 1: 2D X-ray Imaging And Image Processing

Hands-on 2: CT Reconstruction And CT Image Processing

Hands-on 3: CT Planar Object Reconstruction And Layer Separation

Topic 3 Thermography Image

S12-S13 IR Imaging And Image Processing For Subsurface Defect Detection

Near IR Imaging For Solar Cell Crack Inspection

Hands-on 1: IR Wavefront Sensing For Honey Cone Structure Internal Defect Inspection

Topic 4 Video Image Inspection And Object Tracking

S14-S15 Sequence Image Processing And Its Applications In Surveillance For Intruder Detection

Stem Cell Image Sequence Analysis Hands-on 1: Color Inspection For Intruder Detection

Hands-on 2: Stem Cell Image Stitching And Cell Segmentation

Session Title of Topics

Topic 1

S1-4

Metallography And Failure Analysis

Metallography And Optical Microscopy Analysis

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)

X-ray Compositional Microanalysis:

Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS), Wavelength Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (WDS) And X-ray Fluorescence

Spectroscopy (XRF)

Case Study 1: Metallographic Sample Preparation And Optical Microscopy Analysis

Case Study 2: SEM/EDS Morphology & Composition Analysis

Topic 2

S5-S9 Plastic And Composite Material Characterisation

Thermal Analysis

Mechanical Testing And Rheological Analysis

Chemical Analysis By Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) And Raman Spectroscopy

Case Study 3: Test And Analysis For Tensile Strength Of Plastic Components

Case Study 4: Thermal Analysis To Identify Unknown Polymers

Case Study 5: Surface Contaminant Analysis Using Micro-ftir And Raman Spectroscopy

Topic 3

S10-S14

Thin-film Coating Characterisation

Microhardness, Nano-indentation And Adhesion Strength Test

Optical Properties And Thin Film Thickness Measurement

X-ray Analysis For Thin Film Structure And Residual Stress

Case Study 6: Micro Hardness And Nano-indentation On Thin Film Coatings

Case Study 7: Optical Property Measurement Using UV-VIS-NIR Spectrophotometer

Material Characterisation Techniques And Applications In PE Industry

M5 – Materials Characterisation for PE Industry (45 hours)

M6 – Color Measurements (New Module)

Session Title of Topics

Topic 1 Fundamental Of Colorimetry

Color Space: Reproducible Representations Of Color.

Color Model And Mapping Function With A Reference Color Space.

Additive Color Mixing And Subtractive Color Mixing.

Color Temperature

Case Study: Identify Objects By Color Analysis With Various Color Space

Topic 2 Measurement Of Color

Spectrophotometer: Measure The Spectral Reflectance/Transmittance/Relative Irradiance Of A Color Sample

Spectroradiometer: Measure Absolute Spectral Radiance/Irradiance Of A Light Surce.

Colorimeter/Spectrocolorimeter: Measure And Calculate Tristimulus Values Of Sample

Color Temperature Meter

Case Study: Color Analysis Of Cosmetic Contact Lens / Measurement Of LED Color

Topic 3 Multi Channel Color Measurement By Digital Imaging

Tristimulus Colorimeter Using Digital Imaging

Colorimetric Camera For Reducing Observer Metamerism Color Errors

Illuminant Design For Tristimulus Colorimeter

Case Study: High Speed Inspection For Color Printing On Plastic Parts

Topic 4 Dimensional Measurement By Color Sensing And Analysis

Chromatical Confocal Sensing For Distance Measurement

3D Profile Measurement By Imaging Based Chromatical Confocal

Case Study: 3D Profilometer For In-situ Inspection Of Microfluidic Devices

General Information

Course Registration & Schedules

Please visit our website at KTO.SIMTech.a-star.edu.sg

Contact Us

For technical enquiry, please contact:

Dr. Fang Zhong Ping, Senior Scientist

Email: zpfang@SIMTech.a-star.edu.sg

DID: 6793 8269

For general enquiry, please send your enquiries to:

Email: KTO-enquiry@SIMTech.a-star.edu.sg