A digital Quality Infrastructure for testing and calibration laboratories: from theory to practice

Lena Meyer, Anna Maria Elert, Claudia Koch

Abstract

The digital Quality Infrastructure (QI) offers significant potential to enhance the technical excellence and efficiency of laboratory operations. By leveraging tools and processes of a digital QI, laboratories, their customers, authorities, and other stakeholders can enhance efficiency, foster trust, and generate added value. This paper introduces the digital QI toolset and ecosystem as developed in the German initiative QI-Digital, and explores concrete scenarios for their implementation in laboratories. Successful rollout not only requires technical development but also intense stakeholder engagement. Consequently, this paper shares insights and outcomes from a structured stakeholder dialogue with the laboratory community, and outlines the establishment of the 'digital LabHub' as a pivotal step to drive digital transformation and facilitate the widespread adoption of digital QI within laboratories and their broader ecosystem.

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IMEKO-TC8-11-24-2025-047.pdf

DOI

10.21014/tc11-2025.047

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TC11 - Measurement in Testing, Inspection and Certification

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