Control 2025: Topic-focused, international and future-oriented
Quality assurance managers are eagerly awaiting the 37th Control, the international trade fair for quality assurance (QA). It will take place in Stuttgart from May 6 to 9, 2025. The important industry event traditionally focuses on quality, relevance and a high level of expertise.
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April 16, 2025
From May 6 to 9, Control 2025 invites quality assurance professionals to visit the trade fair. (Image: Control Messe / Schall Messen)
Preparations for Control 2025 are entering the final phase. From May 6 to 9, 2025, suppliers and users of solutions for the quality of a product, process or service will meet in Stuttgart. The trade fair company P. E. Schall is planning the international trade fair for quality assurance, which will showcase various types of measurement technology and present cross-industry relevance, in the four halls 3, 5, 7 and 9 of the Stuttgart exhibition grounds. The range of topics covers the areas of vision, image processing, sensor technology and measurement and testing technology, including state-of-the-art software and evaluation technology.
Control Quality Talk 2025 discusses AI in QA
Artificial intelligence will play an important role at this year's trade fair. AI systems have become an important technology trend in quality assurance. This year, exhibitors, trade visitors and guests will experience the first edition of a new event format as part of the trade fair program - the Control Quality Talk 2025. Under the heading "AI in QA - Will the future be error-free? AI as a turbo for profitability and efficiency", a panel of renowned experts will talk about AI in quality assurance. They will discuss which AI systems already exist, which are already being used in the industry and what concrete effects they have in terms of cost-effectiveness and efficiency. In addition, it will be explained to what extent future AI systems will pave the way for error-free products and processes as part of full automation and simplify QA. Ira Effenberger, Group Leader at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, Dr.-Ing. Ralf Christoph, Managing Director and owner of Werth Messtechnik, Florian Schwarz, CEO CAQ AG Factory Systems, and Dr. Christian Wojek, Head of AI, Zeiss IQS. The discussion will be moderated by Dr.-Ing. Peter Ebert, Editor-in-Chief of the trade journal "inVISION". The organizers expect exhibitors, trade visitors and guests to take away a lot of background information and further inspiration from this discussion.
QS favors the production of safe products
Quality assurance measures are essential for companies and determine their future. Especially in times of difficult economic conditions, the importance of modern QA solutions is high. This is why Control is one of the trade fair highlights of the year for many companies. In all industries, it is currently more important than ever to use the advantages of digitalization, networking and intelligent evaluation of information and to implement them within daily QA processes. This is because, in addition to the opportunities for increasing efficiency in production, intelligent QA also significantly benefits the manufacture of safe products. This means reducing potential error costs and additional work as well as high customer satisfaction, uncovering hidden errors in the value chain, avoiding legal consequences and often also directly preventing danger to life and limb. Whether sustainability, climate protection, energy transition, e-mobility or automation: hardly any of the current megatrends can be mastered without the digitalization of processes and production methods relating to QA. Modern QA measures therefore make a direct contribution to mastering many challenges of global importance.
TOP supporting program with special show and expert forum
In the workflows of industrial production, QA measures now extend to the full automation of testing processes; they are becoming faster and more efficient, they are carried out inline and integrated into a wide variety of processes. AI systems are increasingly providing support, particularly in the acceleration of measurement processes, measurement data evaluation and further automation. They have already penetrated the QA sector deeply and will be discussed in many areas of the trade fair. Trade visitors to Control traditionally have the opportunity to obtain up-to-date information and make new contacts via a top-class supporting program. This includes the specialist forum with topic-specific and practice-relevant presentations as well as the special show "Non-contact measurement technology" by the Fraunhofer Vision business unit, which is being held for the 19th time this year. The special show presents technologies, applications and system components from the field of non-contact measurement and testing technology at a central location and has established itself as a marketplace for innovations among both exhibitors and trade fair visitors. On the one hand, the special show offers interested parties and potential users initial guidance when selecting a suitable technology for their own testing tasks. This is because the performance and flexibility of modern systems is constantly increasing. Larger and larger scale ranges are being covered and new fields of application opened up. Due to the rapid technical development, it is not easy for users to find their way around the market and make a suitable selection with regard to their own requirements. In addition to this initial orientation aid, the exhibitors at the special show stand also offer complete non-contact measuring and testing systems, where visitors with specific tasks can find possible solutions.
Indispensable personal contacts
The organizers are optimistic, despite the rather gloomy economic outlook: "We are looking forward to Control 2025, it will once again be a first-class industry gathering," says Bettina Schall, Managing Director of trade fair organizer P. E. Schall. "At this traditional event for the expert community, a lot of new specialist information is exchanged and important new business contacts are made. That's why personal discussions at the trade fair are so important." Exhibitors, including 25 companies from Switzerland, meet pre-informed trade visitors at Control who bring with them in-depth specialist knowledge about measurement technology. The concrete illustration and direct explanation on the object, the high level of visitor quality, the bridge from research to industry and, last but not least, the personal contact make the trade fair indispensable for many industry participants. n
Canadian manufacturer Polyrix will be showcasing its PolyScan V series for fully automated in-process inspection at Control 2025 (hall 9, stand 9205). The "V" stands for "versatility", explains the company. By adapting the scanning unit to a specific part or complex application, manufacturers can seamlessly integrate high-precision measurement technology into their production processes. The motionless PolyScan Surround 3D scanners will be presented. These are multi-sensor measurement systems that enable comprehensive three-dimensional measurement of a wide range of components. With a focus on speed, simplicity and reliability, the PolyScan system is suitable for dimensional inspection, in-process quality assurance and the inspection of components, tools and models.
