德国斯图加特国际质量控制及仪器仪表展览会（Control）是国际上最专业的质量控制及仪器仪表贸易展览会， 是由 P .E.Schall 展会企业有限公司发起和赞助的，创立于 1987 年，一年一届，在德国的著名展览城市斯图加特展出，展期为四天。 Control 是世界上第一流的质量保证，质量监督专业展览会。Control是以其展览规模全球最大，展品种类丰富，展品水平引领世界，参观专业客商档次最高而闻名于世的。它是国际质量保证行业的窗口，是国际质量监督，质量保证市场的缩影，是中国质量监督企业通往世界的最佳市场平台。
作为世界领先的质量保证贸易展览会，每年在斯图加特举办的质量控制会议汇集了来自世界各地的用户，与国际市场领导者和所有质量保证相关技术，产品，子系统和完整的硬件和软件解决方案。Control拥有来自全球32个国家的900多家参展商，“Control”是所有以一流品质为基础的领头企业。在很早的阶段，专家访问者就了解未来的生产和测试工程领域。在这方面，Control依赖于研发与行业用户之间的知识和技术的转移。
为了尽可能最好地实现这一目标，Control与该行业的先驱机构密切合作。包括Fraunhofer-Allianz Vision，Fraunhofer IPA，欧洲机器视觉协会和德国质量协会（德国质量协会）。专题展览，主题公园和专家介绍，为游客提供了集中的专业知识，从而为用户带来直接增值。
“如果质量和生产力在任何时候都不会持续改善，它会给所有的竞争对手带来超越的机会”，Bettina Schall作为Control组织者总结了质量保证的重要性。所以，控制系统逐年向世界提供了世界级的专家。理想与实践的最佳组合与前瞻性支持事件相结合。
展品范围(Show Products):
质量控制系统产品：程序控制系统，智能化质量控制系统，自动系统，质量控制数据处理，鉴定系统，质量管理系统，环境管理系统，内窥镜产品，感应器，光纤技术测试产品，工业图像分析及处理系统，光电子测量系统；
破坏性（有损）检测仪器及设备：测试张力、扭转力、压力、弯曲度、阻力的仪器，非破坏性（无损）测试仪器，材料测试仪器、三坐标测量机、辅业有花岗石精密量仪、电子水平仪；
度量衡、测量及测试仪器及设备：测量设备，测量仪，测量机器人，机械测量仪器，测量系统、零部件和附件，电脑数控仪器，直线、角度测量仪器，厚度测量仪器、里氏硬度仪，流量计、湿度计，电子数显卡尺、防水数显卡尺、特殊目的测量及测试设备，测试设备、零部件，电阻式仪表，刀具预调测量仪，其他物理数据测试仪器，电流表，电压表；
分析仪器产品：水、空气、气体和材料分析系统产品和部件。
展会报告(Show Reports):
High levels of visitor interest, in-depth expert discussions and ground-breaking technological innovations for greater cost-effectiveness and efficiency in product manufacturing: the 37th Control international trade fair for quality assurance was held successfully from the 6th through the 9th of May, 2025. 500 exhibitors, including 180 from outside of Germany, presented state-of-the-art measuring and test technology innovations to 20,166 expert visitors from a total of 70 countries in four exhibition halls. The newly launched “Control Quality Talks”, where experts discussed artificial intelligence in quality assurance, stood out as a highlight on the first day of the trade fair.
Control 2025 has come to a successful conclusion. Numerous satisfied exhibitors summed up the four days of the trade fair in four fully occupied exhibition halls in Stuttgart: “Control is one of the most important industry events,” observed Nadeem Sawani, Vice President Sales EMEA at Mahr. He emphasised Control’s role as the ideal platform for showcasing innovations and interacting with customers. Manuel Müller, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence Germany, also pointed out: “For us, Control is the most important meeting place for the measuring technology sector.” Not only can expert visitors view various systems here, they can test them live as well. Dr. Raoul Christoph, Associate Managing Director at Werth Messtechnik, was also satisfied: “Control continues to be the most important trade fair for quality assurance.” Florian Schwarz, CEO of CAQ AG Factory Systems and long-standing Control exhibitor, also praised Control as a great team-building opportunity.
Positive Trade Fair Assessment Across the Board
“We’re delighted that so many industry players took advantage of Control 2025,” says Bettina Schall, managing director of trade fair promoters P. E. Schall. “We’ve seen clearly that the search for forward-looking solutions is especially vigorous under strained and difficult circumstances. The focus is on economic efficiency and maintaining a strong competitive edge. As a result, reducing costs, improving processes, increasing efficiency and conserving resources are issues of vital importance for everyone. In particular within this context, new technologies are indispensable for measuring and testing, as well as inspection and quality assurance.” “High levels of international participation, amounting to 36%, have once again demonstrated Control’s global impact and its reputation across all industry sectors,” notes Fabian Krüger, Control project manager at trade fair promoters P. E. Schall. “No other trade fair provides visitors with such a comprehensive overview of the capabilities and technologies available today for quality assurance. All companies in every industry are pursuing the goal of process improvement, and Control 2025 was able to provide valuable, forward-looking impetus to this end.
Growing importance of QA in Production
Product manufacturing is focused on efficiency, productivity, the conservation of resources and sustainability. Modern measuring systems with higher levels of performance and precision provide significant support for the optimisation of processes and the prevention of waste, which is why quality assurance (QA) is playing an increasingly important role in production. Current trends include a shift from traditional tactile measuring processes to optical measuring technologies. The growing significance of contactless measuring procedures was demonstrated by great interest in the special show for “Contactless Measuring Technology” organised by Fraunhofer Vision, which took place for the 19th time this year. At a central location, expert visitors experienced concise, compact demonstrations of systems for inline 3D microscopy, high-speed image processing, thermography and fully automated test stations for small-batch production, as well as complete contactless measuring and test systems, for example.
First “Control Quality Talks” as Highlight and Crowd Puller
One of the key trends in QA is the increasing automation, flexibility and scalability of inspection and testing processes, not least of all thanks to AI-supported image processing systems. All in all, systems featuring artificial intelligence sparked considerable interest amongst the visitors. This was made impressively apparent during the “Control Quality Talks” panel discussion, which the trade fair promoters introduced as a new feature this year. A moderated panel of experts including Dr.-Ing. Ira Effenberger, Head of Research for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Vision at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, Dr.-Ing. Ralf Christoph, Managing Director and Proprietor of Werth Messtechnik, Florian Schwarz, CEO at CAQ AG Factory Systems, Dr. Christian Wojek, Head of AI at Zeiss IQS and Dr. Timo Bernthaler, Managing Director of Matworks GmbH discussed the subject of “AI in QA – Will the Future be Free of Defects?” The debut event was very well received by the audience, who participated actively in the discussion with great enthusiasm.
Considerable interest was also aroused by Professor Dr. Daniel Carl from the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM with his presentation on “Generating Added Value with Measuring Technology” at the trade fair’s opening ceremony. Modern measuring methods with varying levels of integration – inline, in-machine or in-process – make product testing significantly faster and more precise. This results in less scrap, conservation of resources and cost savings, and thus a direct gain in added value. Above all, modern 3D measuring techniques such as digital holography are gaining ground.
Control Continues to be the Most important International Event for the Quality Assurance Sector
“The development of measuring and test systems for quality assurance is progressing rapidly,” summarises project manager Fabian Krüger. “Automated, flexible inspection systems, automatic measurement data management including documentation, as well as automatic data analysis, are leading to even greater reliability and speed in measuring and testing applications. This results in more efficient production, increased productivity, less waste and lower costs. The QA sector is consistently pursuing this path, and we’re pleased to continue our support for this highly interesting development with Control.” “Control remains the most important international industry event for quality assurance,” says Bettina and announces: “Already in 2026, the event format will be expanded to provide condensed, compact and concise expert knowledge and industry news. The expert QA community will benefit from this expanded control format by way of increased value, greater efficiency and a beneficial impact on business.
The next, i.e. 38th Control international trade fair for quality assurance will take place from the 27th through the 30th of April, 2027.
