"ProSens": Integrated production control by automated inspection planning and efficient multisensor metrology

By China's entry into the WTO, chinese as well as german companies are facing the question, how to minimise the risk of unfamiliar co-operation partners when developing products. The rise of customer demands concerning quality, product diversity and the reduction of expenses require flexibility and efficiency with reliable component suppliers. In order to build and strengthen sino-german co-operations, a manufacturing control using homogenised and efficient measures to assure high quality is of vital importance. Lack of unifications may cause identical measurements conducted at subcontractors or customers to be carried out with different measurement processes which leads to incomparable results. Rapidly growing company cooperations and simultaneously decreasing of manufacturing scope cause substantial difficulties when coordinating joint quality control activities. ""ProSens"", a sino-german project consortium consisting of industrial users, technology producers and research institutes, aims at improving selected production processes by: - Creation of a homogeneous quality awareness in sino-german co-operations - Sensitisation for process accompanying metrology at an early stage of product development - Increase of the process performance by the use of integrated metrology - Reduction of production time and cost Unification of quality control of complex products by means of efficient measurement strategies and CAD-based inspection planning.