Tilo Pfeifer

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Tilo Pfeifer (* 1939 in Benzen near Walsrode in the Lüneburg Heath ) is a German engineer and professor of production metrology and quality management . He is one of the pioneers in quality science.

Life

Tilo Pfeifer studied communications engineering in the electrical engineering course at RWTH Aachen University . As early as his second year of study, he built a bridge to mechanical engineering as an assistant at the WZL machine tool laboratory at RWTH Aachen University . Since 1965 he was a scientific employee at Herwart Opitz at the WZL. He graduated in 1968 his work at the Institute with the promotion of Dr.-Ing. from.

Tilo Pfeifer then held a leading position in industry from 1969. After his return to the WZL and his habilitation in 1972, he was appointed professor and head of the field of measurement technology for automated production at the WZL.

Since 1980, Pfeifer was also a member of the board of directors at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology (IPT) in Aachen, where he headed the measurement and quality technology department.

In 1988, the increasing importance of production metrology and quality assurance was met and the original subject area changed to the first German chair for production metrology and quality management ; Tilo Pfeifer was appointed to this chair. The RWTH Aachen thus continued its pioneering role in the field of measurement and automation technology; because one of the first German institutes for control engineering was founded here by Otto Schäfer in 1957 , almost at the same time as the corresponding establishment by Winfried Oppelt in Darmstadt and by Heinrich Kindler in 1955 in Dresden. At RWTH, other application-oriented chairs have been filled in other faculties: Control engineering (head: Heinrich Rake ) and process control technology (head: Martin Polke ).

Since the beginning of his activity as a university lecturer, Tilo Pfeifer has continuously maintained national and international cooperation with various facilities for measurement technology, automation and quality management. Numerous memberships in leading associations, scientific and technical organizations and research communities underline his wide-ranging commitment. Pfeifer repeatedly took on management responsibility in exposed positions and thus gave production metrology and quality management new impulses.

Tilo Pfeifer documented his research results in over 1,000 scientific publications in specialist journals and books as well as in over 500 lectures at national and international congresses. After taking over the first German chair for production metrology and quality management, Pfeifer also became a co-editor of Industrieanzeiger . Here he was effective with specialist articles, interviews and statements as well as in expert discussions with experts from the industry (well-known editor-in-chief: Rolf Langbein ).

Pfeifer retired in 2004 when he reached retirement age . With a specialist colloquium, around 400 colleagues, companions and employees honored and said goodbye to the internationally recognized specialist in production metrology and quality management. Numerous high-profile scientists have emerged from Pfeifer's academic environment. His successor was his student Robert Schmitt (* 1961), who holds the chair for production metrology and quality management as well as director of the WZL machine tool laboratory at RWTH Aachen University. In addition, Schmitt took over Pfeifer's functions in the Fraunhofer Institute IPT since January 2005.

Memberships (selection)

  • 1979–1981 Chairman of the VDI / VDE Society for Measurement and Automation Technology (GMA)
  • 1979–1985 President of the International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO), and in this function he headed the 9th World Measurement Technology Congress 1982 in Berlin (West)
  • Since 1988 Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Society for Quality (DGQ)
  • Since 1995 chairman of the Society for Quality Science (GQW), a scientific association of German-speaking university professors for quality management.
  • Member of the Board of Directors of PhotonAix
  • Member of the International Academy of Quality (IAQ).

Honors (selection)

Numerous institutions, associations and companies appreciate Tilo Pfeifer's advice. The high international esteem is expressed in numerous honors and awards, including:

Publications (selection)

  • with Herwart Opitz and Joachim Buchholz: Development of a pneumatic measurement control for the automation of the machine tool. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1974, ISBN 3-531-02411-6 .
  • Newer measuring methods for assessing the working accuracy of machine tools. Aachen, Technical University, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, habilitation thesis, 1972, published 1976.
  • with Carlos Alberto Schneider: Use of new laser technologies to measure the deviation from straightness. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1978, ISBN 3-531-02719-0 .
  • with Heinz-Reiner Wollersheim: Measurement of the cylinder shape deviation by scanning the surface line along a helical line. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1981, ISBN 3-531-03077-9 .
  • with W. Rühle: Development and application of a quality data acquisition system with a serial data bus (PDV bus). Nuclear Research Center, Karlsruhe 1982.
  • Practice book quality management. Tasks, solutions, results. Hanser Verlag, Munich; Vienna 2001, 2nd edition, ISBN 3-446-21508-5 .
  • Production metrology. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich; Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-486-25885-0 .
  • Geometric measuring and testing technology - a fundamental element of industrial quality management. In: Walter Masing , Michael Ketting , Wolfgang König , Karl-Friedrich Wessel (eds.): Quality management - tradition and future. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the German Society for Quality e. V. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich; Vienna 2003, pp. 231-254, ISBN 3-446-21601-4 .
  • with Dietrich Imkamp: Coordinate measuring technology and CAx applications in production. Basics, interfaces and integration. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-446-22733-4 .
  • with Robert Schmitt: Production metrology. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2010, 3rd edition, ISBN 978-3-486-59202-3 .
  • with Robert Schmitt (Ed.): Masing Handbook Quality Management . Hanser Verlag, Munich 2014, 6th edition, 1152 pages, ISBN 978-3-446-43431-8 .
  • with Robert Schmitt: Quality Management. Strategies - Methods - Techniques. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2015, 5th edition, ISBN 978-3-446-43432-5 .
  • Quality control loop. In: Hans-Dieter Zollondz, Michael Ketting , Raimund Pfundtner (eds.): Lexicon quality management. Handbook of modern management based on quality management. Walter de Gruyter, Oldenbourg Verlag, Berlin; Boston 2nd edition 2016, pp. 978-981, ISBN 978-3-486-58465-3 .

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Kriesel , Hans Rohr, Andreas Koch: History and future of measurement and automation technology. VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, p. 13, ISBN 3-18-150047-X .
  2. ↑ Otto Schäfer : Basics of the automatic regulation. Technischer Verlag Heinz Resch, Graefelfing 1953, 7th edition 1974.
  3. ^ Winfried Oppelt : Small manual of technical control processes. Verlag Chemie, Weinheim 1954, 4th edition Verlag Chemie, Weinheim and Verlag Technik, Berlin 1964, 5th edition 1972, ISBN 3-527-25347-5 .
  4. ^ Heinrich Kindler : Collection of exercises on control engineering. Verlag Technik Berlin and Oldenbourg-Verlag Munich, Vienna, 1964 (with H. Buchta and H.-H. Wilfert).
  5. ^ Association of German Engineers, VDI / VDE-GMA (ed.): Yearbook 1997 VDI / VDE-Gesellschaft Mess- und Automatisierungstechnik. VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1997, p. 452, ISBN 3-18-401611-0 .
  6. ^ Walter Masing , Michael Ketting , Wolfgang König , Karl-Friedrich Wessel (eds.): Quality management - tradition and future. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the German Society for Quality e. V. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich; Vienna 2003, 421 pages, ISBN 3-446-21601-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Pfeifer, Tilo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and university lecturer for production metrology and quality management
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Benzen near Walsrode , Lüneburg Heath