MS ISO 14978:2018 Geometrical product specifications (GPS) – General concepts and requirements for GPS measuring equipment

Scope:
This document specifies the general requirements, calibration, terms and definitions of characteristics
of GPS measuring equipment, for example micrometers, callipers, gauge blocks and rotary axis form
measuring instruments. This document forms the basis for standards defining and describing the
design characteristics and metrological characteristics for measuring equipment and gives guidance
for the development and content of standards for GPS measuring equipment.
This document is intended to ease the communication between manufacturer/supplier and customer/
user and to make the specification phase of GPS measuring equipment more accurate. This document
is also intended as a tool to be used in companies in the process of defining and selecting relevant
characteristics for measuring equipment.
This document includes terms which are frequently used in connection with the characterization of
specific measuring equipment.