Abstract. Strategic considerations and publications dealing with the future of industrial production are significantly influenced these days by the concept of “Industrie 4.0”. For this reason the field of measurement technology for industrial production must also tackle this concept when thinking about future trends and challenges in metrology. To this end, the Manufacturing Metrology Roadmap 2020 of the VDI/VDE Society for Measurement and Automatic Control (GMA) was published in 2011 (VDI/VDE-GMA, 2011; Imkamp et al., 2012). The content of this roadmap is reviewed and extended here, covering new developments in the field of the Industrie 4.0 concept and presented with expanded and updated content.

Zusammenfassung “Scheller, Sicherer, Genauer und Flexibler” ist der Titel der von der VDI/VDE-Gesellschaft Mess- und Automatisierungstechnik herausgegebenen “Roadmap Fertigungsmesstechnik”. Das Dokument liefert einen Ausblick auf die Entwicklung der Messtechnik in der industriellen Produktion in den nächsten zehn Jahren. Es wurde von einer deutschen Expertengruppe aus Forschung und Industrie erarbeitet. Dieses Manuskript fasst den Inhalt der Roadmap zusammen und erläutert die einzelnen Überschriften “Scheller, Sicherer, Genauer und Flexibler” anhand von Beispielen.

Abstract. "Faster, safer, more accurately and more flexibly" is the title of the "manufacturing metrology roadmap" issued by the VDI/VDE Society for Measurement and Automatic Control (www.vdi.de/gma). The document presents a view of the development of metrology for industrial production over the next ten years and was drawn up by a German group of experts from research and industry. The following paper summarizes the content of the roadmap and explains the individual concepts of "Faster, safer, more accurately and more flexibly" with the aid of examples. Metrology and productionUnder the impact of global megatrends, manufacturing technology is faced with a number of different challenges. The topics of resource efficiency, of mastering new process technologies, of increasing flexibility and of transparency have a special significance in production today ( Fig. 1).At the same time the trend towards higher product quality continues uninterrupted. Globalization has made it possible for production to be linked on a worldwide basis, in which the exchange of information is becoming more and more important in securing quality. Much of this information, particularly that concerned with the state of the products and production processes, is obtained with the aid of metrology.Against a background of discussions about the supply of energy and shortages in raw materials, the subject of resource efficiency plays an important role today in production as well. New methods in manufacturing can make a contribution to improving resource efficiency. This also requires the use of measurement technology since only this can supply the information needed for evaluating efficiency.Manufacturing technology continues to be faced with challenges arising from customer desire for individually designed products and from fluctuating demand, which it counters with a greater degree of flexibility. This is accompanied by a considerable reduction in batch sizes, which can often only be managed by a more intensive use of metrology since lengthy production start-ups and pilot production runs can hardly be afforded any longer. At the same time more and more sectors of industry (such as aviation, medical products) are calling for a seamless documentation of the conformity assessment of all manufactured products, which is also impossible without a more intensive use of metrology.The term "production metrology" is a natural one for metrology within the context of production, but this metrology is nevertheless also referred to as "manufacturing metrology" in German (Pfeifer and Schmitt, 2010; Dutschke and Keferstein, 2007). Figure 2 provides an overview of the more important fields of application for manufacturing metrology. These are also examined in the technical committees of the "manufacturing metrology" department of the VDI/VDE Society for Measurement and Automatic Control (GMA, 2012) where a working group has been formed which, in light of the aforementioned trends in manufacturing technology, has assigned itself the task of forecasting the futur...

ZusammenfassungStrategische Überlegungen und Veröffentlichungen zur Zukunft der industriellen Produktion sind heute wesentlich durch den Begriff „Industrie 4.0“ geprägt. Daher muss sich auch der Bereich der Messtechnik für die industrielle Produktion mit diesem Begriff auseinandersetzen, wenn über zukünftige Trends und Herausforderungen in der Messtechnik nachgedacht wird. Dazu wurde im Jahr 2011 die Roadmap Fertigungsmesstechnik 2020 der VDI/VDE-Gesellschaft für Mess- und Automatisierungstechnik (GMA) veröffentlicht

KurzfassungDer Fachausschuss 3.23 “Härteprüfung” in der VDI/VDE Gesellschaft Mess- und Automatisierungstechnik (GMA) hat Möglichkeiten zur Bestimmung einer Eignung von Härteprüfmaschinen auf Basis der üblichen Methoden bei der dimensionalen Messtechnik geprüft und auch die im Anhang G der ISO 6508-1 vorgeschlagenen Berechnungen zur Messunsicherheit betrachtet. Es wurden Ringversuche an Rockwell- Härteprüfmaschinen durchgeführt und ausgewertet. Auf der Basis der Ergebnisse werden Vorschläge für ein Konzept zum Nachweis der Eignung von Härteprüfmaschinen diskutiert. Unter Eignung einer Härteprüfmaschine wird die Eigenschaft der Härteprüfmaschine verstanden, bei Wiederholungsmessungen unter Laborbedingungen (idealen Bedingungen) Messergebnisse zu erzielen, die einer bestimmten, vorgegebenen Prüfaufgabe (vorgegebene Toleranz) unter Berücksichtigung der Messunsicherheiten genügen.