Automation and resultant rationalization must identify with consumer-o
rientated quality assurance. Here modular scales that can be arranged
and integrated into a system up to computer industrial scales systems
must take over many leading tasks. Because of their variety and variab
ility and their connection with other measurement and management magni
tudes they become more and more involved in process and production are
as and the future will be greatly influenced by their further developm
ent in this connection.