Digital Metrology

Digitalisation is affecting all domains of economy, industry, and society today. We can observe a steadily increasing number of software and data being utilised to establish more automated and more efficient processes. It is lifting significant potential to create value. At the same time more and more questions are raised on how to ensure trust in decisions and risk management based on outcomes of new digital tools.

The TraCIM (Traceability of Computationally Intensive Metrology) system provides easy-to-use services to validate correct outcomes of calculations and data. It implements a fully automated end-to-end workflow for performing tests. Furthermore, there are interfaces for humans and machines to use the service. In this sense, TraCIM not only creates a modern anchor of trust for digital measurement applications but is also ready to keep up with the high speed of digital innovation.

TraCIM services aim to issue test reports not only in a human readable format but in a machine-readable format based on digital certificates and the D-SI in the future. At the same time, PTB envisions also to develop TraCIM tests to support the validation of digital certificates.

Services that are operated under the TraCIM trademark fulfil common quality rules for long-term available, easyto-maintain, and web-based validation. These rules are defined and provided under the auspice of the TraCIM e.V., an association of digital validation experts and national metrology organisations. It was established by European metrology institutes in 2014 and is now celebrating its tenth anniversary.

TraCIM is evolving with the digital transformation. In 2024, PTB launched a substantially improved version of the validation service platform. Further developments have been started, covering the validation of data and very promising implementations of TraCIM tests for the validation of AIbased software in medicine and manufacturing.

You would like to find out more about the TraCIM services? Then visit PTB’s TraCIM webpage. Here you can find a more detailed description of the general test procedure. Each test service comes with a public user manual. Registered users can perform free example tests. Registration is without fee.