Data Acquisition and Signal Conditioning Reference Materials
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Data Logging 101
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Do you need a way to capture important information such as temperature, pressure or voltage but don't know how to get started? The Application Engineers at CAS DataLoggers have put together this brief ...
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The Importance of Inventory Visibility - Cement & Construction Case Study
From: BinMaster, Inc.Description: Limited inventory visibility was a major obstacle for a large concrete and construction corporation. Real-time data, accurate level sensors, and multi-site visibility offered answers. ...
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How Accurate Do Your Measurements Need to Be?
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Everyone's trying to lower their energy bill these days. If you're a business owner, facilities manager or plant supervisor, your facility may be losing money owing to a little-understood line item on ...
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How to Get Started Collecting Data
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Do you need a way to collect data, but don't know how to get started? The Application Engineers at CAS DataLoggers have put together this brief overview to help guide you through the basics of data ...
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Is Uncorrected Power Factor Costing You Money?
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Everyone's trying to lower their energy bill these days. If you're a business owner, facilities manager or plant supervisor, your facility may be losing money owing to a little-understood line item on ...
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Keeping the Lights On: Machine Monitoring Basics
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: As manufacturers continually search for ways to cut costs and increase ROI, machine monitoring and predictive maintenance (PdM) solutions are an increasingly cost-effective way for plants and ...
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Can the IIoT save the water and wastewater industries
From: Define InstrumentsDescription: Public utilities are in a sorry state in many U.S. cities, no more so than in the water and wastewater sectors. Due to restricted spending and the "invisible" nature of the problems related to the ...
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Resistor Thermal Noise
From: Dataforth CorporationDescription: eNewsletter on resister thermal noises and how signal conditioning modules may help to reduce said noise ...
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Hazardous Locations in the European Union - ATEX Directive
From: Dataforth CorporationDescription: The Directive is commonly referred to as the 'ATEX' Directive ('Atmospheres EXplosibles'), but may also be called the ATEX Equipment Directive. The Directive applies to electrical and/or mechanical ...
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Remote Motor Monitoring Over Ethernet
From: Acromag, Inc.Description: Motors are used in many automation applications. To prevent unexpected failures, many motors have built in thermal overloads. Also, some companies add vibration sensors to alert them when a motor is ...
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7 Ways a Data Logger Can Cut Your Business Costs
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Data loggers are devices which collect data by taking physical or electrical readings from external or internal sensors over an extended period. They're an ideal way to monitor, record and alarm ...
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How To Establish a Cleanroom Monitoring Plan
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: If you work in a cleanroom monitoring application such as a product fill cleanroom, in non-sterile manufacturing, or in a medical cleanroom, this latest White Paper from CAS DataLoggers can help you ...
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Why You Should Consider Using Isolated Measurement Systems
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: By keeping data acquisition signals separate, electrical isolation adds a layer of protection to your measurement equipment, both for the system's components and to its collected data. But what ...
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Flexibility in Low-Cost Microphone Array Systems
From: ADLINK Technology Inc.Description: With increasing concerns over environmental factors and their effects on quality of life, more and more attention is focused on over-exposure to detrimental levels of ambient noise. Global noise ...
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White Paper: Reducing Flight Test Cycle Time from Weeks to Hours
Description: Immediate data feedback allowed flight engineers to make critical adjustments shortly after each test, enabling multiple tests per day. Previous test programs required week-long delays between flights ...
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Symbology in Barcodes
From: Cognex CorporationDescription: Barcodes are machine readable symbols that store identifying data about the part or product with which they are associated. These symbols, when read by a barcode scanner, are decoded, recorded, and ...
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How to Increase the Internal Memory of Squirrel Data Loggers
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: If you're working on a data acquisition project requiring extended data recording, Grant Squirrel series dataloggers allow users to increase their internal memories if necessary. Grant and its ...
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Application Note: Accurate and Reliable Pasteurisation Records
Description: Pasteurisation is a key stage in the production of a wide range of food and beverage goods, including milk, dairy products, beers, juices and even water. During pasteurisation, products must be ...
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Application Note: Clean-In-Place Sanitary Applications
Description: In the past, food and pharmaceutical manufacturers had to dismantle equipment between production batches for manual cleaning. Manual cleaning is time-consuming, expensive, and subject to variable ...
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Application Note: Sugar Mill Sulfitation Process
Description: The clear sugar juice coming from the filter following the second carbonation has a light straw color. Further heating has a tendency to react with residual amino acids, causing the juice to assume a ...
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MARWIS Applied for
From: LufftUSADescription: In September 2015 the "Digital Test Field Motorway" project has been started officially by the Federal Transport Minister Alexander Dobrinth and takes place on the motorway A9 between Munich and ...
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How to Set Up UMTS Data Transfer With Delphin Expert Loggers
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Using Delphin data loggers, users have the option to extend all existing Expert Loggers (100, 200 und 300 models) with LTE/WWAN interfaces. CAS DataLoggers and Delphin show you how in our latest ...
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Enabling Fast, Efficient and Accurate BTU Measurement with Non-intrusive Ultrasonic Technology
Description: A major pharmaceutical company with a large facility in the greater Philadelphia area consumes as much as 300 million BTU s of thermal energy per day to cool their labs, equipment, offices, and other ...
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Environmental Monitoring for Museum Curation
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers is here to show you how a data logger is an ideal device for environmental monitoring data in museums to ensure safe conditions for the preservation of art and artifacts. ...
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AN129 Harmonics and Utility Costs
From: Dataforth CorporationDescription: In this age of electronics, most modern electrical equipment has embedded microprocessors and electronic circuitry to increase functionality and efficiency. ...
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Non-SSL SMTP Servers For Use With dataTaker And Other Devices
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Many standalone network devices that are able to e-mail, including data recorders and environmental monitors, cannot use SMTP servers that require SSL encryption. At CAS DataLoggers we've found a ...
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Using a dataTaker DT80 with BrainChild IO-16DI Modules
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: In our latest Technical Article adapted from dataTaker, CAS DataLoggers shows you how to use a dataTaker DT80 Intelligent Data Logger with a Brainchild Digital IO-16DI Module. ...
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How to Collect Energy Data Compliant to EN50001
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: The EN50001 standard requires high energy-consuming industries to implement energy-saving measures by performing an energy audit. Energy consumption data therefore requires users to record data, which ...
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SOLUTION BRIEF: Machine Monitoring Applications in the Oil and Gas Industry
Description: Reducing unplanned downtime in the oil and gas industry: use of the SensorCloud™ platform allows operators to characterize machine fatigue, perform predictive analysis, improve system design, ...
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SOLUTION BRIEF: Safer and Smarter Mining Machines
Description: Equipment health monitoring and analysis enables predictive maintenance, reduces downtime, and reveals design improvement opportunities. Remote sensing and data collection saves labor, time, and ...
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How to Calculate Covariance Using a dataTaker
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Covariance is a method of measuring how strongly variables are related to each other. In our latest Tech Article, CAS DataLoggers shows you how to perform covariance calculations using a dataTaker ...
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White Paper: The Importance of Isolation
From: Acromag, Inc.Description: Electric current refers to the conceptual flow of atomic particles or electrons through wires and electrical devices. Conductive materials like metal and water allow electric current to easily pass ...
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How to Set Up a Grant SQ20xx Datalogger for Temp and RH Sensors
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers presents this tutorial from Grant Instruments showing how to connect a temperature and humidity sensor to Grant Squirrel SQ2010\SQ2020\SQ2040 dataloggers. ...
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How to Change Your License in ProfiSignal Software
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: In the event of a software update or a follow-up software order for Delphin systems, you'll need to perform a quick license change in ProfiSignal software. In our latest Delphin Tech Article, CAS ...
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Accurately Easing Fuel Consumption Measurement in Malaysia
From: Fluidwell bvDescription: The National Electricity Board of Malaysia, Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) wanted a reliable measurement of the actual diesel consumption of their mobile truck generators. In total 26 truck generators ...
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Process Monitoring of Vibrations at Hydro Turbines
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Delphin Technology recently provided the vibration monitoring system for Femaris, a Romanian company focusing mainly on measuring and analyzing technical parameters. CAS DataLoggers, a Delphin ...
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AN128 RMS Revisited
From: Dataforth CorporationDescription: The 14-page document revisits the definition of RMS, shows RMS values for various time functions, and explores some RMS measurement issues including the frequency response and crest (or form) factor. ...
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Becoming the Factory of the Future: How to Prepare Now for the Industrial Internet of Things
Description: The Internet is the prevailing medium of digital communication worldwide. However, the concept of using instant, pervasive, and globally connected data over the Internet for the benefit of industrial ...
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Three-Step Verification for Lean Product Labeling
Description: Product traceability is a growing concern in industries from medical device manufacturing to consumer packaged goods. It is no longer sufficient for a manufacturer to produce high-quality products to ...
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I have connected my WSDA -1000 directly to my PC, why can't I communicate with it?
Description: The most common cause of this issue is that the customer connects the WSDA directly to the PC via the ethernet cable without setting the WSDA -1000 up for Static IP first. ...
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Becoming the Factory of the Future
Description: For factories of the present, the ability to compete in tomorrow's economy hinges on their ability to integrate with the Industrial Internet of Things. This white paper offers a look into the factory ...
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Automated Multichannel Sensor Compensation and Calibration
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Many of today's measurement requirements involve large numbers of measurement channels and sensors. However, setup and preparation times for these large-scale measurement and testing procedures are ...
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Electrical Ground Rules Series
From: Acromag, Inc.Description: This paper looks at grounding and its role in protecting personnel, protecting equipment, and ensuring the integrity of electrical signals. In this part, we will review circuit grounding and its ...
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Energy Audits: What Do You Need to Know?
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: The term Energy Audit is familiar to most readers in business and industry. In this CAS DataLoggers Applications Note we'll cover the basics of how to perform an Electricity Energy Audit using our ...
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Simulation & Test Systems for Electronic Control Units
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: In the automotive industry, the development of Electronic Control Units-ECUs-is critical in the manufacture of new vehicle models. In this brief example CAS DataLoggers shows how ECU test development ...
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Delphin System Streamlines Test Evaluation at Henkel
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Every new product that Henkel develops requires extensive testing, whether for powder or liquid detergent. To perform these tests and ensure product quality, the company has now replaced its old data ...
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Measuring Voltage and Current Using a Data Logger
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: A common data logging application is measuring voltage or current flowing into or out of a piece of equipment. These measurements can be broadly classified into two groups: AC and DC. At CAS ...
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Modern State Space-Based Control Using ADwin DAQ Systems
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Recently CAS DataLoggers provided the ADwin data acquisition and control solution to an internationally-known consumer electronics manufacturer using Model-Based Design (MBD) in a vehicular control ...
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ADwin DAQ Systems for Control Applications
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers offers ADwin data acquisition and control systems for intelligent, high-speed control applications in every industry such as test stand control. By utilizing the programmability of ...
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Air Compressor Monitoring with an Intelligent Data Logger
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: A company specializing in compressor installation required a small but powerful data logger to measure the on time to off time and current consumption of a wide range of compressor models. This system ...
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Learn About the Cutting-Edge in Data Acquisition Systems
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Quite simply, the cutting-edge is ADwin. German manufacturer Jager's ADwin Data Acquisition systems are used around the world in testing, R&D and production. ADwin's design combines mechanics, ...
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Automatically Monitoring Energy Resources Using a Data Logger
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers has provided the automated dataTaker datalogging solution to a government-owned school building being retrofitted with a solar energy system as part of its renewable energy initiative. ...
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How Your Plant Can Lower its Bills Using Power Factor Correction
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: In electrical engineering, Power Factor (PF) is the ratio of real power to the apparent power flowing to the load from the source. From a business standpoint it's important to understand how having a ...
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Voltage Optimization: How Can It Save You Money?
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: The average voltage supply from many national grids around the world is often higher than the ideal operating voltage for most electrical equipment from lighting to motors. To get started in your own ...
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Aerospace Static and Dynamic Load Testing for Design Validation
From: Mars Labs LLCDescription: In static strength testing for aircraft wings and airframes, data must be acquired on the aerospace structural response to applied loads. This type of testing is commonly used to simulate the loads ...
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Mars Labs Titan DAQ Supports Durability and Fatigue Testing at Major Automotive OEM
From: Mars Labs LLCDescription: Typical automotive durability and fatigue testing requires dynamic frequency measurements, ranging from static conditions to bandwidths up to 50 Hz. It is not uncommon for such testing to be executed ...
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NVH Lab is using Mars Labs Titan for Testing
From: Mars Labs LLCDescription: Spectrum Technologies Inc. of Redford, MI, a NVH test lab serving the automotive R&D market and heavy user of data acquisition equipment is taking advantage of the Mars Labs Titan data acquisition ...
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Vehicle Dynamics Testing Partnership with University of Maryland Formula SAE Racing Team and SCCA
From: Mars Labs LLCDescription: The September 29 Mars Labs-sponsored AutoX Race Day event, held at FedEx Field in Lanham, Maryland, used the company's new Titan™ modular DAQ system to determine whether real-time on-track ...
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Monitoring Engines & Emissions in New York Harbor
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: In March of 2011 CAS DataLoggers provided the DataTaker diesel engine monitoring solution for R.A. Mitchell Co. Inc, an emergency generator and marine services dealer with a customer operating one of ...
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How to Send Your Data Directly Into a Database using a dataTaker
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: The intelligent dataTaker data loggers work with DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) which is an older file format. This feature gives you a way to setup automatic downloading of your data to save time ...
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Hydrometric Network Management Using Data Loggers
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers recently provided the environmental datalogging solution to a Pacific Northwest county's municipal water authority to capture data from storage reservoirs and surface and groundwater ...
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Recording Closed-Loop Control System Cycles for HVAC Savings
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: As an example of the savings data loggers can identify, CAS DataLoggers recently supplied an Accsense Electrocorder data logger to monitor a customer's thermostatically oil-fired central heating ...
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Troubleshooting UPS Alarm Events Using a Voltage Data Logger
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: In an ongoing 'stumper' troubleshooting application, CAS DataLoggers has provided the Accsense Electrocorder voltage datalogging solution for Osage Energies, a Generac Full-Service Dealer based in ...
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Monitoring and Repairing a Natural Historic Landmark
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers has just provided the structural monitoring technology for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), which has begun work on their newest conservation project--the Watts Towers, a ...
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Life Sciences Industry Case Study: Ultra-Compact Barcode Imagers Enable Automated Laboratory Diagnostics
Description: EUROIMMUN embeds the tiny MS-4 imager into its high-performance EUROPattern Microscopes to read Data Matrix codes at close range, ensuring sample data and images are archived to patient IDs for ...
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AN123 Tuning Control Loops for Fast Response
From: Dataforth CorporationDescription: The Cohen-Coon tuning rules work well on virtually all self-regulating processes. These rules were originally designed to give a very fast response, but this results in loops with a very oscillatory ...
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AN124 Tuning Control Loops with the IMC Tuning Method
From: Dataforth CorporationDescription: Since 1942, well over one hundred controller tuning methods have been developed, each trying to accomplish a certain objective or fill a specific niche. One of these methods is the Internal Model ...
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AN125 Tuning Level Control Loops
From: Dataforth CorporationDescription: The original Ziegler-Nichols tuning methods published in 1942 aimed for a super-fast speed of response at the expense of control loop stability. However, with a slight modification of their tuning ...
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AN126 Tuning Surge Tank Level Control Loops
From: Dataforth CorporationDescription: A surge tank is placed between two processing units (Figure 1) to absorb flow rate fluctuations coming from the upstream process so that the flow rate to the downstream process changes less rapidly. ...
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Life Sciences Industry Case Study: Handheld Imager Tracks Samples in Eppendorf Lab Automation Solution
Description: A reliable HS-21 barcode reader is used as an accessory to the epMotion® 5075 from Eppendorf to identify and track samples and reagents to achieve improved accuracy and efficiency in laboratory ...
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What is The Internet of Things?
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers is here to explain The Internet of Things (IOT) and how it is an emerging class of internet-capable electronic devices revolutionizing every industry in need of data loggers. ...
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Sensor Fundamentals
From: NIDescription: As part of the National Instruments Measurement Fundamentals Series, this set of tutorials helps you learn about a specific common measurement application topic through theory explanations and ...
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What's the Best Way to Retrieve Your Data?
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: When selecting a data logger there are a few factors to consider to make sure you're getting the recording and storage capabilities you need. Do you want to keep the logger hooked up to your PC or do ...
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Medical Device Packaging Case Study: Automated Labeling and Track-and-Trace Solution Using Barcode Imagers
Description: Terumo Medical Corporation error-proofs its labeling process with a system that incorporates QX Hawk Imagers on each packaging line to ensure each device receives a correct and readable label that is ...
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Increasing Cheese Production for a Dairy Manufacturer
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers has just provided the dataTaker solution to a major dairy product manufacturer monitoring cheese- shaping machines on the production line. In order to increase profitability, the plant ...
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Keeping a Running Average Using a dataTaker Data Logger
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers is pleased to announce that dataTaker has released the beta version of their latest firmware update for Series 3 dataTaker data loggers. Firmware version 9.10.4890 contains a useful ...
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Hydraulic Valve Test Bench Setup Utilizes an ADwin DAQ System
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: In 2009 CAS DataLoggers helped design, assemble and program the data acquisition and control solution for an Ohio manufacturer who needed a test bench setup for their directional control valves. The ...
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Gas Turbine Vibration Monitoring in a Refinery
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers has just provided the Delphin vibration monitoring and analysis solution for a refinery relying on a gas turbine-driven generator to provide power for the facility. The generator has ...
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Six Advantages of Ethernet for Auto ID Readers
Description: This white paper focuses on barcode reader connectivity options and the uses and benefits of each in modern manufacturing environments. Ethernet communication is not always the best choice but offers ...
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CAS DataLoggers Helps a NY Racetrack Cut Energy Costs
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers along with Novus are pleased to announce that the new Novus FieldLogger firmware (version 1.42) and configuration software (version 1.51) releases are now available for download! Old ...
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ZBA Healthcare White Paper
From: ZBA, Inc.Description: With mobility throughout hospital workflows, ZBA application analysis shows improved efficiency and reduction in errors with "Real Time" information at the point of application. ...
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Delphin DAQ System Performs Fault Identification on a CT Scanner
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers Engineer Terry Nagy worked on a uniquely challenging data acquisition application a few years ago which highlights the effectiveness of Delphin data loggers. A medical equipment ...
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5 Steps to Creating and Deploying Android™ Data Acquisition Apps
From: Measurement ComputingDescription: Android™-based tablets and smartphones are growing at a phenomenal rate. You can do so much on them - why not use them for data acquisition applications? ...
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Acquiring Data Across Networks
From: Measurement ComputingDescription: Acquiring Data Across Networks - using USB-7202. ...
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Analog to Digital Conversion
From: Measurement ComputingDescription: ADC types, accuracy, and measurement information. ...
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Building a USB DAQ System for a Championship Pumpkin Catapult
From: Measurement ComputingDescription: In 2003, Team ETHOS (Experimental Torsion Hybrid Onager System) organized to compete in charity 'pumpkin tossing' events in the hopes of one day participating in the World Championship Punkin Chunkin' ...
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Developing a Scattered Light Detection Instrument
From: Measurement ComputingDescription: Developing a Scattered Light Detection Instrument - using USB-2533. ...
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Digital and Pulse-Train Conditioning
From: Measurement ComputingDescription: Information about signal conversion, conditioning, and measurement. ...
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Displacement and Position Sensing
From: Measurement ComputingDescription: Overview of measurement and sensor types. ...
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Electrical Measurements
From: Measurement ComputingDescription: Making safe, valid electrical measurements. ...
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Making Basic Strain Measurements
From: Measurement ComputingDescription: Making basic strain measurements using 24-bit hardware. ...
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Monitoring Theme Park and Amusement Rides
From: Measurement ComputingDescription: Monitoring Theme Park and Amusement Rides - using LGR-5329. ...
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Multiplexing and Sampling Theory
From: Measurement ComputingDescription: Multiplexing and sampling theory in data acquisition systems. ...
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Noise Reduction and Isolation
From: Measurement ComputingDescription: Controlling noise, grounding, and signal interference information. ...
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Optimizing Swimmers' Performance
From: Measurement ComputingDescription: Optimizing Swimmers' Performance - using DASYLab®. ...
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Test Instrumentation for Nuclear Power Plants - using USB-2533
From: Measurement ComputingDescription: According to the US Department of Energy, 104 commercial reactors at 65 nuclear power plants currently produce one-fifth of the energy used in the United States. While some advocates see nuclear power ...
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Electronics Industry Case Study: Microscan Imagers Ensure 2D Code Readability and Increase Efficiency During Manufacturing of Miniature Identifiers
Description: ATC Industrial Automation equipped one of its customers, a leading supplier of electronic components, with Microscan's QX Hawk Imager to ensure the presence and readability of tiny, low-contrast 2D ...
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Qualify for a Green Energy Rebate with Our Solar Data Loggers!
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Homes, businesses and schools across the nation are taking advantage of new federal and state solar energy rebates and tax credits to cut their energy costs. Dataloggers are the ideal way to record ...
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Temperature and Humidity Data Loggers Prove Results
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers has recently provided the datalogging business solution to Jim and Mary Kelly of Fur Elise Piano Service, Pawleys Island, SC serving Georgetown and Horry Counties, just south of Myrtle ...
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Monitoring and Alarming Failing AC Compressors
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Manufacturing plants depend on obsolete paper chart recorders to track their machine and equipment temperatures, but printing all this data on hardcopy takes too much time. Now you can just call CAS ...