Method for inspecting a manufacturing device

A method for inspecting a plurality of parts with an electronic measurement device and a processing system, comprising:

• creating surface geometry maps of the parts utilizing the electronic measurement device;
• comparing the surface geometry maps to one another to provide an averaged surface geometry map;
• generating an averaged geometric part model utilizing the averaged surface geometry map;
• comparing the averaged geometric part model to a geometric reference model to provide model comparison data indicative of geometric differences between the models;
• and
• evaluating the model comparison data to determine whether one or more of the geometric differences between the models respectively satisfy one or more predetermined geometric tolerances;
• wherein the comparing, the generating and the evaluating are performed by the processing system.