Quality monitoring of industrial processes

A method of monitoring a manufacturing process of a component, the manufacturing process including a plurality of manufacturing steps, wherein one or more of the manufacturing steps are monitored with sensors, and the method of monitoring comprising:

• reading a machine readable unique identifier of the component;
• measuring parameters indicative of the manufacturing steps for the monitored manufacturing steps and transmitting the measured parameters to a server system;
• and
• the server system generating a digital production quality certificate by:
• the server system obtaining parameters indicative of the manufacturing steps from the sensors for a plurality of monitored manufacturing steps;
• linking the obtained parameters with the machine readable unique identifier;
• performing one or more quality analyses for a selected monitored manufacturing step of the manufacturing steps based on the obtained parameters for the selected manufacturing step;
• generating the digital quality certificate for the component comprising data related to the results of the quality analyses;
• storing the parameters obtained for the component;
• and, further comprising
• updating the digital quality certificate after completion of the manufacturing steps by
• performing an additional quality analysis on the stored parameters;
• and
• updating the digital quality certificate for the component by including the result of the additional quality analysis.

A quality control system for checking a quality of a manufacturing process of a product carrying a machine readable unique identifier and involving a plurality of quality sensitive manufacturing steps at a manufacturing station, the quality control system comprising:

• one or more sensors at the manufacturing station for measuring parameters indicative of a quality of the quality sensitive manufacturing steps,
• a reader at the manufacturing stations for reading the machine readable unique identifier,
• a transmitter for transmitting the measured parameters and the machine readable unique identifier to a server system,
• wherein the server system is configured to obtain the measured parameters indicative of the manufacturing steps from the sensors;
• linking the obtained parameters with the machine readable unique identifier;
• performing one or more quality analyses for a selected monitored manufacturing step based on the obtained parameters for said manufacturing step;
• generating the digital quality certificate for the component comprising data related to the results of the quality analyses;
• storing the parameters obtained for the component.