Novel developments in dimensional nanometrology in the context of Geometrical Product Specifications and Verification (GPS)

Adequate knowledge in the areas of intelligent coordinate metrology and design are important presuppositions to achieve waste free production and low costs of manufacturing with higher quality and accuracy at the same time. This is of extreme importance in present time of worldwide international competition in industry and production and at the same time increasingly higher costs of energy and raw material. The prescription and consumption of material and energy to achieve the necessary and required workpiece accuracy in series manufacturing depends to a great extent from the (geometrical) workpiece tolerances of any kind (roughness, form, positional, dimensional) which are prescribed for the production and the fulfillment of these tolerances and therefore for the function of the produced workpieces and their fitness for practical application and none the less of the economy of production altogether. This requirement is of great importance at the time being which is characterized as described above.