Metrological approach to design and production

One of the requirements presented to designs is that the geometric parameters must be inherently measurable. From the metrological position, the conventional terminology and treatment of this subject hide the fact that nonmeasurability of parameters for a design is equivalent to indeterminacy or inoperability. The “metrological” approach, together with the inadequacies of the language used to describe designs, provides the author with a basic source of design errors and serious obstacles to automation of this sphere of industrial activity. Translated from Izmeritel'naya Tekhnika, No. 4, pp. 17–22, April, 1998.