The increasing use of CAx techniques in the production processes and the continuously increasing pressure for quality assurance through regulated processes require a more extensive integration of measuring techniques in the manufacturing and data flow than in the past. For this reason, around 1985 the first considerations were developed in the quality assurance of the Volkswagen Organisation for a general data concept for use of coordinate measurement techniques (contact and noncontact) in CAI. The basis of all strategies was and still is a programming system for the generation of measuring programs, that are independent, i.e. excluding component specific, of the method of measurement (system AUDIMESS), as integral parts of the general system VWGEO.
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