INNOVATION IN PRODUCTION METROLOGY FOR PRECISION EN GINEERING AND TO SUPPORT SUSTAINABILITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF PR OCESS AND PRODUCT QUALITY IN MODERN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY

High accuracy workpieces are created nowadays by a large variety of modern manufacturing processes a nd techniques such as: CNC turning and milling, broach ing, grinding, polishing, honing, electro chemical etching, etc. The problematic of the high accuracy of the work pieces in modern i ndustrial production technique gained in the last y ears more and more importance through constantly increasing demands on the qualit y of he produced parts. On the other hand importan t charge of the environment, reduced availability of natural resources, necessit y to improve energy efficiency and the increasing g rowth of waste require new concepts and strategies to recycle technical consum er goods as there are household instruments, consum er electronics and passenger cars instead of land filling, burning or steel pr oduction a high potential of recycling is necessary . In view of the large quantity and high personnel costs, an advanced disassembly techn ique is needed working more rational than tradition al manual processes and cheaper than highly sophisticated fully automated h ighest technology machines and devices. This trend develops presently continuously further on because of the development from microtechnology to nanotechnology as well as f rom nanotechnology to picotechnology, which means particularly special me trologies and production methods for the realizatio n of manufacturing accuracies in the nanometric range. This paper show actual trends and developments in Industrial Metr ology today.