At Volkswagen Braunschweig the department for quality assurance in plastics technology is responsible for initial sampling and the release of serial products for production. Therefore the highly complex and always in size decreasing products have to be tested continuously. The steadily increasing demands on quality of these products and on an allover documentation make the use of new technologies indispensable.

The complete analysis of these highly complex parts required different tactile and optical technologies. Furthermore some dimensions had to be measured with portable measuring instruments. To be able to provide a consistent analysis procedure even of these metrological challenging plastic parts, the industrial computed tomography system exaCT® M from Wenzel Volumetrik has been put into use at the department for quality assurance in plastics technology at Volkswagen AG in Braunschweig, Germany.