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Integrated metrology in a digitalized production environment

Reading Time: 2 Minutes 29.09.2022 Currents & Trends

How can metrology be integrated into a digitalized production environment? This is the question addressed by the VDI Status Report on “Production metrology in a digital production environment”. Torsten Ring, metrology expert at Böhme & Weihs, is a member of the team of authors.
Energy consumption is a hot topic given the current gas shortage and increases in the price of electricity as a result of Russia’s war of aggression against the Ukraine. However, securing the supply of energy for production facilities is now also attracting more attention as a growing number of consumers are drawing electricity from the grid as a result of increasing electrification, for example due to electro mobility.

VDI Status Report
The Status Report sets out to ensure that the processes and structures needed for a digitalized integration of metrology technology into the production environment are transparent. The authors present the processes and structures that exist today, as well as the software interfaces used, and also take a look at the underlying models. Based on this, they then developed “models for measuring systems and their application”. These can be used to digitally depict the measuring systems and jobs used in the production process.

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Plug-and-Play solution
The experts all agree that the solution is to integrate metrology into a fully automated production process – dynamically, along the lines of a plug-and-play solution in which the metrological components automatically register with the production system.

Ensuring the flow of data
At present, the use of different formats and interfaces makes communications between the measuring systems and the production environment difficult. This obstructs the flow of data and leads to delays in their transmission. According to Torsten Ring’s analysis, “Consistency is still lacking, but that’s the road we have to go down.”

Torsten Ring believes that bigger development steps are possible, “provided that the data themselves are available, the question of storage space has been resolved – and the expansion of the digital network makes huge leaps as far as speed and standardization are concerned.”


Read more on the topic in the Position Paper and the VDI Status Report:
Statusreport VDI2623

 

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