Quality specialist

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Quality specialist is a term for a profession that deals in particular with length testing technology in industry and was developed as a retraining profession with the Federal Institute for Vocational Training . You can do this job z. B. learn at vocational support organizations , it is not offered as an apprenticeship for young people without previous professional experience.

Professional profile

Quality specialists are skilled workers for the implementation of quality strategies in industrial and craft businesses. The solution of metrological tasks in all areas of the operational process, also within the framework of the worker self-examination, and the quality assurance z. B. through the monitoring and calibration of the operational test equipment , the management of statistical evaluations and the control of quality records are part of their tasks. Participation in certification according to international standards as well as working with a PC and using special software for quality management are a matter of course.

Main tasks of the quality professional, the first article inspection , inspection equipment monitoring , incoming inspection , production monitoring , machine acceptance. In the large companies there is a separate measuring room in which quality specialists work. Learning contents are:

  • basic mechanical skills, including material processing such as filing, drilling, milling, turning, etc.
  • technology
  • Technical informatics (including SPC preparation, compression of test data)
  • Testing technology
  • Test Equipment Management
  • Quality assurance, for example, test equipment monitoring, 3D coordinate measuring technology
  • Quality management (statistics, tools and methods)
  • technical math
  • technical communication
  • English
  • Economics and Social Studies

In addition to manual measuring equipment, the practical training also teaches 3D coordinate measuring technology , material testing, surface testing, shape and position measurement.

The training usually lasts two years. The IHK takes the final exam . As an additional qualification, certification as a quality assistant (QA certificate) by the DGQ is possible.

Individual evidence

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