The OMiLAB@HS Schmalkalden focuses on the creation of software tools that enable practitioners and scientists to flexibly design situation-specific QM methods that build on the potentials of conceptual modeling for documenting, communicating, and processing results.

Entrepreneurial quality management (QM) has continuously developed over the past decades. Accordingly, numerous methods and techniques to support quality initiatives were developed, e.g., Six Sigma, Lean Management or Total Quality Management. Finally, in 2017, the age of Quality 4.0 was proclaimed and new technologies (e.g., Augmented Reality, etc.) as well as transactional and machine data are increasingly used for quality management initiatives.

The OMiLAB node focuses on the creation of software tools that enable practitioners and scientists to flexibly design situation-specific QM methods that build on the potentials of conceptual modeling for documenting, communicating, and processing results.

Competences

• Process-oriented Quality Management
• Method Engineering
• Industry 4.0

About the Hosting Organisation

The Schmalkalden University is a university of applied sciences in Thuringia, and it is situated at the edge of the Thuringian forest. The walking distances between the lecture rooms, laboratories, dining hall, library, dormitories and sport’s facilities are all very short.

The Schmalkalden University of Applied Sciences offers various study programs on a national as well as international level at its five faculties Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Business and Economics and Business Law.

The OMiLAB node is located at the Faculty of Computer Science and will be used for teaching and research purposes alike.