Our vision
A quality infrastructure for the digitalised and sustainable future that enables modern and efficient quality assurance right through to global value creation networks.
Our mission
Together, we are digitalising the processes of the quality infrastructure (QI). In doing so, we are rethinking the practice and regulation of quality assurance across all elements of QI. We address existing and new quality issues in a digitalised world that demands sustainability and resilience.
Our digital solutions enable innovative quality assurance in and with institutions and companies. We help shape the international transformation process, also with regard to global connectivity. With ideas from all stakeholders, we make a significant contribution to renewing the competitiveness of the economy.
For a Made in Germany and Made in Europe of the 21st century.
About us
The quality infrastructure (QI) is anchored in legal structures and trade agreements worldwide. It is the basis for verifiable and comparable quality, safety and environmental compatibility of products and services. It is based on the interaction of metrology, standardisation, conformity assessment, accreditation and market surveillance.
QI-Digital is an initiative of the central players in German QI: BAM, DAKKS, DIN, DKE and PTB. The initiative is funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Action (BMWK). Our innovation projects combine practical applications with basic scientific research. Together with our partners from industry, society, research and politics, we create digital tools and processes for the market. In this way, we will continue to ensure the highest quality of innovative products and services in the future.
Save the date: QI-Digital Forum 2025!
The QI-Digital Forum 2025 will be hosted by the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) on its campus in Berlin-Charlottenburg on 8 and 9 October 2025. You can already look forward to it! Further details to follow.
QI-Digital goes CIM2025
CIM (International Metrology Congress / Congrès Internationale de Métrologie) - is one of the very important annual international meetings in the realm of Metrology. The upcoming edition takes place on 11 - 14 march 2025 in the beautiful city of Lyon (France).
Now available: The Digital Accreditation Symbol!
The Digital Accreditation Symbol is here! It is the first machine-readable counterpart of the existing ‘pictorial’ accreditation symbol of the German Accreditation Body (DAkkS) that can be technically verified worldwide in real time.
Artificial intelligence in medical applications
For AI applications in the area of health, which is particularly worthy of protection, we develop the basis for measurable quality criteria. We develop processes so that the use can be quality-assured and trustworthy.
Reliable Hydrogen Technology
Using the example of a hydrogen filling station, we show in our living lab how operational reliability, availability and economic efficiency can be increased with the help of new digital methods.
Additive manufacturing
In our living lab, we work together with companies on solutions for digitally supported quality assurance in additive manufacturing.
Quality-X
With Quality-X, we are introducing a federated platform for the networking of institutions and the simple, secure exchange of quality-related data and information. It creates an ecosystem for the quality infrastructure based on international data spaces (IDS) with harmonised interfaces.
New solutions for a modern, agile quality infrastructure
"Made in Germany" stands for trust in quality and safety, which should also apply in the digital and green transformation. In an increasingly digitalised world, quality assurance of products, processes, and services must also be rethought. Our goal is to make our proven quality infrastructure (QI) even better. For modern and efficient quality assurance.
As central players in German QI, we have joined forces to develop concrete solutions for innovative use cases. In doing so, a holistic and practice-oriented approach is important to us. We explicitly invite companies in Germany to contribute with their needs and ideas, thus creating a comprehensive network.
Become part of the network
We think of the quality infrastructure as an overall system and drive digitalization forward across institutions.
Together with users, we want to develop targeted solutions for their specific requirements and problems and put them into practice.
To this end, we are creating a network for knowledge transfer for a future-proof QI.
Be part of it. Get in touch with us.
“With QI-Digital, we are finally breaking free of silo thinking. This will create significant added value for Germany as a location for quality.”
Dr. Joachim Bühler, CEO, TÜV Association
“From a business and industry perspective, there can be no doubt about the relevance and necessity of this initiative. If we do it right, it will help the stakeholders in the competitive field to realize their formula for success: ‘Cut costs, boost innovation!’”
Markus Reigl, Director Technical Regulation & Standardisation, Siemens AG
“Quality is what distinguishes the German economy. Only if quality assurance and the quality infrastructure arrive in the 21st century can we be internationally leading. We are therefore working together on the realization of machine-readable and machine-executable standards - smart standards for QI-Digital.”
Christoph Winterhalter, CEO DIN - Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V.
“Innovations and new technologies need confidence in their security. With QI-Digital we create solutions for modern quality assurance that meet the requirements of the digital and green transformation.”
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Panne, President Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM)
“With QI-Digital, we make good things even better: we increase the efficiency of the system. In doing so, accreditation also creates trust in the work of conformity assessment bodies in the digital and virtual space, whose services are needed in many areas of the economy.”
Dr. Stephan Finke - CEO Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle (DAkkS)
“German products enjoy an excellent reputation for quality. We need a digital quality infrastructure to ensure that this promise of quality made by the German economy can still be kept in a digital world. That is why we are working together to develop digital certificates and a QI cloud.”
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Denz, President Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
