ISO 14978:2006规定了简单GPS测量设备的特征的一般要求，术语和定义，例如。微米，表盘，卡钳，表面板，高度计，量块，但不一定排除更复杂的设备。它是确定和描述测量设备的设计特点和计量特征的标准的基础。也为GPS测量设备标准的制定和内容提供指导。 ISO 14978:2006旨在减轻制造商/供应商和客户/用户之间的沟通，并使GPS测量设备的规格阶段更准确。它还旨在作为在确定和选择用于测量过程的质量保证，即在校准和工件测量中使用的测量设备的相关特性的过程中用于公司的工具。 ISO 14978:2006还包括与特定测量设备的特性相关的常用术语

ISO 14978:2006 specifies the general requirements, terms and definitions of characteristics of simple GPS measuring equipment, e.g. micrometers, dial gauges, callipers, surface plates, height gauges, gauge blocks, but not necessarily excluding more complicated equipment. It forms the basis for standards defining and describing the design characteristics and metrological characteristics for measuring equipment. It also gives guidance for the development and content of standards for GPS measuring equipment. ISO 14978:2006 is intended to ease the communication between manufacturer/supplier and customer/user and to make the specification phase of GPS measuring equipment more accurate. It is also intended as a tool to be used in companies in the process of defining and selecting relevant characteristics for measuring equipment to be used in the quality assurance of measuring processes, i.e. in calibration and in workpiece measurements. ISO 14978:2006 also includes terms which are frequently used in connection with the characterization of specific measuring equipment.