Press & Media
Here you will find selected articles, reports, videos, and press releases relating to QI-Digital. Whether it's reports on our use cases, interviews with experts, or insights into digital tools and developments, this collection shows how diverse and practical the digital transformation of the quality infrastructure is.
Laborpraxis: The Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) coordinates the “Metrology for AI in Medicine” competence cluster, in which 14 doctoral students and postdocs conduct research into metrological fundamentals and evaluation methods to enable the safe and reliable use of AI systems in medicine. One focus is on the development and validation of high-quality reference data sets for the evaluation of robustness and explainability.
H2 News: The Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) has commissioned a digitally monitored research filling station for hydrogen at its technical safety test site near Berlin. The facility will be used to test quality assurance technologies under real operating conditions. All processes are monitored online in real time, with sensors recording operating data for digital models and twins.
WindEurope: In the run-up to the WindEurope Technology Workshop 2025, the AI4Blades Challenge invited international research teams to develop their own ideas and solutions using the AI-VISIR dataset – from AI-supported image processing to performance evaluation of wind turbines. Initiated and moderated by Dr. Michael Stamm (BAM), the challenge impressively demonstrated the potential of digital quality infrastructure – represented on site by Dr. Claudia Koch from QI-Digital. The goal: to generate creative ideas for safe, efficient wind energy and build new bridges between research and industry.
PRESS BOX: To strengthen Germany as a business location, the QI-Digital initiative is calling on the future federal government to intensify and secure long-term cooperation between all public and private players in the field of digitizing quality infrastructure across federal and sectoral boundaries. This is stated in a position and demand paper that the initiative, in which the German Association of Independent Testing Laboratories (VUP) is also involved, has now presented.
Laborpraxis: With the digital accreditation symbol, the German Accreditation Body is making an important contribution to the necessary protection of the authenticity and integrity of digital conformity assessments or test reports. Find out what this is all about in this exclusive interview.
electrive: The Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) has commissioned a research filling station for hydrogen at its test site. BAM intends to use it to develop and test new technologies for quality assurance in all technical processes.
industrieanzeiger: According to a recent study, the quality infrastructure—consisting of standardization, accreditation, market surveillance, and metrology—contributes significantly to Germany's economic strength. Without the established quality infrastructure, gross domestic product would be almost 8% lower, corresponding to around €320 billion.
Informationsdienst Wissenschaft: At Control, the international trade fair for quality assurance, PTB and DKD will present the advantages of digital calibration certificates and provide companies with assistance in getting started.
ZDF heute: Across Germany, around 4,000 bridges need to be replaced or renovated—a mammoth task. Niklas Epple and his team presented the ConScope monitoring system for BAM at the Hannover Messe trade fair: sensors detect the slightest changes in the concrete—long before the first cracks appear. A prime example of modern quality assurance in the spirit of QI-Digital.
innoreports:The Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) has collected reference data for the inspection of rotor blades using thermography for the first time. The first reference data set with high-quality measurements from several wind farms makes it possible to train AI algorithms for automatic image evaluation, bringing this innovative process one step closer to practical application.
QZ Online: Around 300 visitors from five countries and three continents gathered in Berlin under the motto “AI Act, Data Spaces and Digital Product Passport – Setting the course for a green and digital transition.” The central message: Digital QI innovations lead to greater transparency and security and will significantly reduce bureaucracy for business and administration in the future.
QZ: The German Accreditation Body (DAkkS) is the first body worldwide to now also offer the state accreditation symbol in digital form as an electronic signature. This allows conformity confirmations to be digitally signed in a machine-readable, tamper-proof, and verifiable form and offered to industry and business as so-called “eAttestation.”
ADLERSHOF.science@work: As a driver and pioneer of innovation, BAM has been cooperating for several years with three partner institutes that are promoting the transition to a CO₂-neutral hydrogen economy in South Korea. The intensive collaboration focuses on ensuring the safety of hydrogen infrastructures and establishing a quality infrastructure and regulatory frameworks with corresponding norms and standards for Germany and South Korea, which are intended to accelerate the market ramp-up of hydrogen.
additive-manufacturing-industry: As part of the QI-Digital initiative, the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) has expanded the equipment pool at its Competence Center for Additive Manufacturing: The new EOS M300-4 multi-laser system is intended to improve additive manufacturing processes and digitize quality assurance.
3druck.com: The Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing presents its new practical laboratory for additive manufacturing. As part of the pilot project of the Quality Infrastructure Digital (QI-Digital) initiative, experts are working together with partner institutions and companies on innovative solutions for digital quality assurance along the additive manufacturing chain.
DGQ: The cornerstone of German companies' competitiveness and innovative capacity is a reliable quality infrastructure (QI). It ensures safety, quality, and trust, and contributes significantly to the functioning of trade in goods and services and to the protection of health and the environment. This technical article provides an overview of the key elements of the quality infrastructure in Germany, its supporting institutions, and their functions.
LABO: In an increasingly digitalized world, quality assurance for products, processes, and services must also be rethought. The QI-Digital initiative is developing solutions and fundamental structures and procedures for the necessary digital transformation of the quality infrastructure (QI) in practical pilot projects. From now on, the initiative will be supported in its strategic orientation, concrete implementation, and networking with stakeholders by its advisory board, which was newly established on October 10.