Today’s production industry has to face considerable challenges. Decentralised and
cross-linked production processes lead to a highly complex production control and a
worldwide financial crisis causes drastic movements in demand. To succeed in business
under these conditions, production needs to be transparent. One key factor to increase
transparency is the management of measurement processes. The management of measurement
processes focuses not only on the measurement process itself that enables the decision on
the conformity of a measurand but, beyond that, it considers the acquisition of knowledge
throughout the production process, its validation, processing and feedback into the
process chain. With proof of measurement process capability, the determination of the
optimal trade-off among measuring and production process, the adjustment of optimal
working points and tolerances is achieved. The management of measurement processes allows
obtaining a maximum benefit from metrology under the consideration of technical,
organisational and economical boundary conditions.