Control 2025 reports successful trade fair conclusion

Control 2025 in Stuttgart was a complete success for the QA sector. This was reported by both satisfied exhibitors and the organizer at the end of the trade fair.

Editorial office - May 13, 2025

The "Control Quality Talk" met with great interest at this year's Control QA trade fair. (Image: Control / Schall Messen GmbH)

Control 2025 came to a successful close in Stuttgart on May 9. Many satisfied exhibitors summed up the four days of the trade fair in four full exhibition halls: "Control is one of the most important industry get-togethers," stated Nadeem Sawani, Vice President Sales EMEA at Mahr, for example. He highlighted Control as the ideal platform for showcasing innovations and exchanging ideas with customers. Manuel Müller, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence Germany, also emphasized: "For us, Control is the most important meeting place for the measurement technology industry." Trade visitors can not only inspect systems here, but also test them live. Dr. Raoul Christoph, Deputy Managing Director at Werth Messtechnik, also expressed his satisfaction: "Control remains 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 "super team-building event."

Positive trade fair conclusion across the board

"We are delighted that so many industry participants took advantage of Control 2025," said Bettina Schall, Managing Director of trade fair organizer P. E. Schall, after the trade fair closed. "It has been confirmed that the search for forward-looking solutions is particularly important under tense and difficult circumstances. It's all about profitability and ensuring competitiveness. This is why cost reduction, process improvement, efficiency and resource conservation are existentially important topics for everyone. Here in particular new technologies indispensable for measuring and testing, inspection and quality assurance."

"The high internationality of 36 percent has once again proven that Control has a global impact and attracts attention across all industries," says Fabian Krüger, Control Project Manager at trade fair organizer P. E. Schall. "At no other trade fair do visitors get such a comprehensive overview of the possibilities and technologies for quality assurance. All companies in all industries are pursuing the goal of process improvement, and Control 2025 was able to provide valuable and forward-looking impetus in this area."

QA increasingly important in production

Product manufacturing focuses on efficiency, productivity, resource conservation and sustainability. Modern measuring systems with higher performance and greater precision provide significant support for process optimization and the avoidance of rejects, which is why quality assurance (QA) is playing an increasingly important role in production. One of the trends is the switch from proven tactile measuring processes to optical measuring techniques. The fact that non-contact measurement technology is gaining in importance was demonstrated by the great interest in the special show "Non-Contact Measurement Technology" organized by the Fraunhofer Vision division, which was held for the 19th time this year. At a central location, trade visitors were able to experience, for example, inline 3D microscopy systems, high-speed image processing, thermography, fully automated inspection stations in small series production and complete non-contact measuring and inspection systems in a clear and compact format.

First "Control Quality Talk" was a highlight and crowd-puller

A key trend in QA is the increasing automation, flexibilization and scalability of inspection and testing processes, not least thanks to AI-supported image processing systems. Overall, systems with artificial intelligence aroused great interest among visitors. This was impressively demonstrated at the "Control Quality Talk" panel discussion, which the trade fair organizer launched as a new format this year. A moderated panel of experts discussed "AI in QA - Will the future be error-free?", namely Dr.-Ing. Ira Effenberger, Head of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Vision Research 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, Dr. Christian Wojek, Head of AI, Zeiss IQS, and Dr. Timo Bernthaler, Managing Director Matworks. The event debut met with a great response from the audience, who took an active and engaged part in the discussion.

Prof. Dr. Daniel Carl from the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM also aroused great interest with his presentation on "Value creation in measurement technology" at the opening of the trade fair. Modern measurement technologies of different integration levels - inline, in-machine or in-process - significantly promote the speed and precision of product testing. This results in the avoidance of rejects, conservation of resources and cost savings and therefore a direct gain in added value. In particular, modern 3D measurement technologies such as digital holography are on the rise.

Control remains the most important international event in the QA industry

"The development of measuring and testing systems for quality assurance is rapid," summarizes project manager Fabian Krüger. "Automated and flexible inspection systems, automatic measurement data management including documentation and automatic data analysis lead to even greater reliability and speed in measuring and testing. This results in more efficient production, greater productivity, less material waste and lower costs. The QA industry is consistently pursuing this path, and we are pleased to continue to accompany this highly interesting development with Control." "Control remains the most important international industry event on the subject of quality assurance," says Bettina Schall and announces: "The event format will be expanded in 2026 to bring together specialist knowledge and industry innovations in a compact format. The QA expert community will benefit from this supplementary control format, which will be highly beneficial, more cost-effective and have an attractive business impact."

The next 38th Control - International Trade Fair for Quality Assurance - will take place from April 27 to 30, 2027.

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Control 2025 reports successful trade fair conclusion

Control 2025 in Stuttgart was a complete success for the QA sector. This was reported by both satisfied exhibitors and the organizer at the end of the trade fair.

Positive trade fair conclusion across the board

QA increasingly important in production

First "Control Quality Talk" was a highlight and crowd-puller

Control remains the most important international event in the QA industry

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