Metrotechnics Lab @ NTUA

Undergraduate and Postgraduate Courses

Personel of Metrotechnics Laboratory supports and participates in the teaching of a series of courses of the School of Mechanical Engineering of NTUA at the undergraduate level.

The Metrotechnics Laboratory offers postgraduate level courses in AthensMBA, which is co-organized by the School of Mechanical Engineering and in particular the Sector of Industrial Management & Operational Research with the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), but also in other Master's Programs organised by the National Technical University of Athens and others academic institutions.

Undergraduate Theses

Post Graduate Theses

Doctoral Dissertations

Undergraduate Courses

Quality Management Systems (QMS). The concepts of Quality Control, Quality Assurance, and Quality Management. Definition and dimensions of quality. International standards, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the ELOT EN ISO9001 standard.

The requirements of the ELOT EN ISO9001 standard. Operating framework of the Organization: Scope of the system, interested parties, processes. Leadership: Management commitment, quality policy, roles, responsibilities and responsibilities. Planning: Risk management and the ELOT ISO31000 standard, quality objectives and change planning. Resources: Documented information, form and file control, documentation procedures. Professional competence and staff training procedures. Infrastructure and equipment capacity.

Planning operation and control of processes: Process approach. Variability of the production process. Capacity and statistical control of the production process.

Scams for products and services. Customer related processes (contract review). Shopping processes. Product production and service provision processes. Identity performance and traceability. Customer ownership and control of monitoring and measurement devices. Product tracking and measurement, non-conforming product control.

Performance Evaluation: Review of the system by Management. Internal inspection procedures.

Certification procedures: Issuance and maintenance of the quality system certificate.

Statistics in production (position and dispersion parameters, frequency graphs, distributions, normal distribution, binomial distribution, Poisson distribution). Elements of probability theory. Quality and specifications. Quality check. Concept and technique of preventive control (checkpoints, physical tolerances). Preventive control with measurements. Mean value - extreme difference charts. Screening screening. Charts of percentage of non-conformers, number of non-conformers. Acceptance (receipt) sampling with screening. Representative samples - Sampling methods. Characteristic curve, acceptable quality level, unacceptable quality level. Consignor's and receiver's risks. Average outbound quality, average outbound quality limit

Standard acceptance sampling systems with screening. ISO 2859, Dodge - Roaming, Philips. Acceptance (receipt) sampling with measurements (sample size, acceptance criterion). Readiness, failure rate, average life, acceptance testing with lifetime testing. Organization of quality control in the enterprise.

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"Production Organization & Business Administration I" is an introductory course to an extensive body of knowledge concerning:

"The study, planning, control of the operation of systems made up of people, materials, and equipment"

It is of use and importance to Mechanical Engineers and Shipbuilders-Mechanical Engineers, because practically everyone — and relatively soon in their careers — will be called upon to develop initiatives and take responsibility for such systems. In other words, they will be responsible, not only for their own work, but for the work of an entire (smaller or larger) group of workers.

As an introductory course, "Production Organization & Business Management I" is not able to impart in-depth knowledge. But it will try to describe the body of knowledge mentioned and to outline its peculiarities - which are many - in relation to the other sciences of Engineering. This it will seek to do by examining, in sufficient depth, selected subjects of immediate and frequent utility in factory practice. The course will have succeeded in its purpose if students are convinced of the importance of this body of knowledge and the need for its scientific exploration and application—contrary to common perceptions that want Organization to be either merely an innate ability or an automatic consequence of experience.

The handouts distributed basically cover all the topics that will be developed in the lectures and include several exercises given as exam questions. Aids, however, cannot replace monitoring, only complement it. This is generally true. however, it applies especially to the "Production Organization & Business Management" aids. Above all, it is not possible to demonstrate the interdependence of the various issues, which is important, from the aids. On the other hand, depending on the interest shown in the traditions, some particulars will probably be highlighted. Students are therefore advised to attend lectures and exercises as well as take notes during them—which, after all, is a very useful experience for life.

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Postgraduate Courses

The course provides an in-depth analysis of project management processes in light of national and internationally recognized standards, methods and practices (ISO21502, PMBOK, ELOT1429). The analysis begins with the definition and phases of a project and moves on to the specific knowledge – skills that a project manager and/or project team members should have, such as management methods and tools in the subject areas of subject matter, time, cost, quality, human resources, communication, risk and procurement.

The main purpose of the course is to acquaint students with the main methods/techniques of project management, such as time planning (Gantt, CPM, PERT), resource management and planning, and financial monitoring. In addition, emphasis is placed on modern and sophisticated tools (such as earned value management) to monitor projects.

In the course, the concepts project, program and portfolio of projects are separated and their differences are identified. The course also includes an introduction to agile project management methods (Agile PM).

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