6.3 Job management

A higher-level system may manage/schedule/start/stop measurement routines, be able to assign part to a job/measurement routine/batch, want to know the remaining time till the job is finished, know what the current status of the job is and include dynamic part data in the measurement result (e.g., material no., part no., comments, operator) in order to

be able to distribute the execution processes automatically

(automatically) start/enable the measurement routine

create an overview of the current job status

ensure traceability

Figure 13 shows a typical communication between GMS, operator and high-level system to manage jobs as a sequence diagram.