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The paper briefly describes the current method of verifying whether the Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) meets the permissible measurement errors with which it is characterized by the manufacturer and proposes a new method of verifying whether the (CMM) meets this permissible measurement errors. The proposed method is derived using the OEFPIL algorithm and corresponds to the procedures according to the GUM (Evaluation of measurement data — Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement) regulation.

At present emphasis is placed on input or output control of products in the manufacturing process. One of the criteria is the dimensional analysis or porosity analysis of products. In the case that products are of complicated shapes, or measurements are to be taken in places which are not accessible to standard measuring devices (manual measurements, coordinate measuring machines) the use of computed tomography is one of the possibilities for obtaining the desired dimensions. These technologies work with digital data and therefore the surfaces which are to be assessed must be created on the basis of determined criteria. Surface determination is one of the most important settings during the evaluation of the visual shape (state) of a surface and assessing dimensions. During such evaluation this is the main parameter which globally influences the precision of the obtained data. In the case of an unsuitably determined surface the obtained results can vary from reality even by several tenths of a millimeter depending on the scanned object and the scanning conditions. The conveyor belts are composed of two or more materials with different densities, such as rubber and textile fibers. In cooperation with Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnology is tested and evaluated the effect of the impactor with various energy into conveyor belt. The correct surface determination for selected material is necessary to evaluate the dimensions, the damage and pores. The article deals with the impact of surface determination on the result of a measurement.

Computer technology has many applications in different fields of industry, health care and medicine. This encompasses paper-based information processing as well as data processing machines (Hospital information system or Clinical information system) and image digitalization of a large variety of medical diagnostic equipment (e.g. computer images of X-ray, MR, CT). The aim of the computer technology in medicine is to achieve the best possible support of patient care, preoperative surgery planning and administration by electronic data processing. At the present time in many countries of the worlds preoperative planning of interventions for lumbar joint is realized with caliper, protractor, plastic templates and x-ray images. Orthopaedic surgeons use transparent template radiographs as part of pre-operative planning in order to gauge the suitability and correct size of an implant. The newly developed CoXaM software offers a simple solution of the problems by using the digital x-ray images and handmade transparent plastic templates. The CoXaM software was developed in Visual Studio 2005 in the Visual C++ programming language at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Measurement at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Kosice. The software was designed for pre-operative planning and helps to determine on the X-ray image a length dimensions, a center of rotation, an angle values. It enables the digitalization of plastic templates from several producers, which will assess the suitability of the type of implant.

In order to compare the strengths of various materials it is necessary to carry out a standard form of test to establish their relative properties. The tensile test, compression test, bending, shearing and torsion tests are used for examining mechanical properties of biological materials. Except for non-destructive methods (optical, electromagnetic, sonic, thermal, infrared), destructive testing is another very important tool for the assessment of biomechanical properties and behavior of biomedical materials. The tensile strength test is one of the most common testing methods, which uses specific testing machines. Many tensile testing machines are equipped to plot a curve which shows the load or stress and the strain or movement that occurs during the test operation. In the testing operation, the load is increased gradually and the specimen will stretch or elongate in proportion to the tensile load. The load cells and extensometers measure the key parameters of force and deformation. The presented paper is a report which describes a specific and unique technical solution and upgrade of FM 1000 machine from the control and output processing point of view. Modern sensoric systems and I/O modules were used and custom software was developed. The fu