An Approach Towards an Adaptive Quality Assurance

In order to optimize the quality-related costs, the quality assurance within the production must be designed in terms of economical criteria. This design is time-consuming and cost-intensive. However, due to the increasing individualization up to lot size one, the quality assurance must be adapted in increasingly shorter cycles in order to achieve an economical optimal quality assurance at any time. The realization of an adaptive quality assurance within the production enables manufacturing companies to achieve a minimum of quality-related costs at any time despite an increasing individualization up to lot size one. Due to their high degree of swiftness regarding data acquisition, data processing and output of data in real-time, and furthermore, their capability to control physical elements with computer-based algorithms in an intertwined way, cyber-physical systems (CPS) are predestined to perform an adaptive quality assurance within the production. But, no approach towards an adaptive quality assurance, which is performed by a cyber-physical system in order to achieve a minimum of quality-related costs at any time despite an increasing individualization of manufactured products up to lot size one, has been described in literature yet. This paper fills the gap by showing an approach towards an adaptive quality assurance within the production, which is performed by a cyber-physical system.