One of the main directions of creation of the new Russian Standards in the field of mechanical motion quantities is designing complex standard which permits to reproduce a group of mechanical values. The new standard contains three Standard setups. The first one intended for constant linear acceleration reproduction is based on the method of being tested device inclination in the Earth gravitational field. In this case a surface of free liquid is chosen as local horizontal plane. The second one is the double centrifuge working in three modes and reproducing constant and variable linear accelerations as well as these both together. The third one is the centrifuge with inclined axis of rotation. The last setup reproduces separately or together constant and variable linear accelerations, constant angular velocities, variable angles.
In combination these setups permit to reproduce: constant linear acceleration in the range from 2,5 × 10^-5 to 500 m/s², harmonic linear accelerations in the frequency range from 0,05 to 30 Hz and amplitude range from 10^–4 to 300 m/s², constant angular velocities in the range from 0,3 to 180 rad/s, variable angles from 0,2 angular seconds to 360 degrees.
The next step of development of the standard will be designing one setup which permit to substitute the written above.

In this paper, there are presented some preliminary image processing methods. They are applied in the vision system for the automatic measurement of the surface tension and wetting angle in solid-liquid systems over a wide range of temperatures. The properly-selected image processing algorithms yielded the results of accuracy and repeatability not yet obtained in any classical methods.

Influence of temperature on CMM inspection results by means of ballplate or hole–plate is presented. Errors of indication of a CMM for length measurement are analyzed. Internal (by machine hardware and software) and external (by additional temperature sensors and software) methods of compensation are compared with measurement without compensation. Implications for industrial practice are formulated.

A new method of large-angle measurements is described. Its high accuracy results from averaging some thousands of readings of about hundred replicas of the measured angle. An optoelectronic device based on this method has been developed, produced, tested, and applied. The design and operation of the device is described. The device consists of optical grating scales of the regular accuracy. It results in simplification of the structure of the measuring device and increases its reliability. A calibration of the pilot batch of the device shows that its limit error is in the range of 0.5 arcsec. Examples of the real-life applications of the device for different setups of the measured equipment provide support for high accuracy and high efficiency of the developed method.

Forming tools are often used to manufacture freeform surfaces. In free forming, the geometry of the workpiece is fully or partially determined by that of the tool (e.g. forming die). Therefore the quality of the finished product largely depends on the geometry of the tools. Tool geometry, though, is changed in the course of the manufacturing process. Reasons are wear e.g. caused by friction and optimisations carried out manually during tryout. When it is time for repair or manufacture of new tools, there is no record of these geometrical modifications applied to the tools. A model in the form of a closed quality control loop to feed back geometrical modifications to CAD and CAM systems, is presented in this contribution. A means of creating the individual components of the quality control loop is described. Particular care has been taken to ensure that both, the measurement and the feedback are limited to selected areas, in order to minimize the required cost and time.