Manufacturing Metrology

Dear Colleagues,

Metrological technology is an important tool for verifying product quality in manufacturing industries. With the rapid development of new manufacturing capabilities, highly complicated geometries can be fabricated in various industries, such as free-form surfaces, cavities, and high-aspect-ratio features. These advances in technology have led to new requirements for metrological methodologies and standards. In addition, new manufacturing concepts, such as digital manufacturing and distributed manufacturing, are attracting more attention. The demands for the agility and intelligence of metrology are becoming higher than ever before, especially in high-mix and high-valume industries. Therefore, the new challenges in the area of manufacturing methology include multi-scale measurement, hard-to-access feature measurement, measurement intelligence, and measurement error compensation with root cause analysis. This Topic welcomes scientific publication that aim to address the above challenges.

The topics will include, but are not limited to:

• Intelligent instrumentation
• 3D sensing
• Machine vision
• In-line/in situ measurement
• Uncertainty analysis
• Free-form metrology
• Precision measurement systems
• Precision control strategy, ect.

Dr. Fang Cheng
Dr. Qian Wang
Dr. Tegoeh Tjahjowidodo
Prof. Dr. Ziran Chen
Topic Editors