Data Acquisition and Signal Conditioning Reference Materials
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Clinical Studies Use Data Logger For Skin Temperature Monitor
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Learn how a portable data logging solution was provided to a medical research application to serve as a skin temperature monitor to study pain relief. ...
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Food Temperature Monitoring & Alarming Solution In Meat Lockers
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Come and learn how the Accsense VersaLog provides a data logging solution for food temperature monitoring & alarming in meat lockers that assists in proving best practices. ...
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Powerful and Simple Air Compressor Monitoring
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers is here to show you how the dataTaker DT80 proves to be a small but powerful unit for an air compressor monitoring solution measuring runtime and energy levels. ...
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Versatile Data Acquisition for Automotive Component Testing
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS is here to show you how the dataTaker DT80 accommodates more than 20 measurements including temperature and voltage for automotive component testing at a OEM manufacturer. ...
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Vehicle Emissions Dynamometer Calibration Properly Monitored
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers is here to show you how the Influx Rebel LT Data Logger properly monitors a vehicles emissions dynamometer calibration procedure of a manufacturer's equipment plant. ...
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Remote Data Acquisition Solution In Natural Gas Dehydration Plants
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Read how the DAQ System from Delphin provides a remote data acquisition solution for natural gas dehydration plants requiring measurements & actions to be processed on its own. ...
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Making MEMS Pressure Sensors Easier to Use (Part 2)
From: All Sensors Corp.Description: Pressure sensors with a digital output and an evaluation board have two aspects that make design-ins easier. Providing comparative data on two popular MEMS pressure sensors, this two-part white paper ...
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Remote Solution for Automobile Air Conditioning Performance Test
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers is here to show you how the dataTaker DT80 provides a remote monitoring solution for an automobile air conditioning performance test for design verification. ...
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Condition Monitoring of a Mining Quarry for Optimal Production
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers is here to show you how the dataTaker DT80 provides a solution for condition monitoring of a mining quarry to identify discrepancies & calculate the material moved. ...
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Highly Accurate Die Casting Process Control Solution
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers is here to show you how the ADwin-Gold DAQ and Control System provides manufacturers with a die casting process control solution with highly accurate monitoring in real-time. ...
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Sophisticated Fuel Consumption Monitoring in a Gold Mine
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: A company specializing in a diesel fuel additive to reduce their carbon footprint uses a dataTaker DT80 for their fuel consumption monitoring solution. ...
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Lab Goes Paperless With a Digital Chart Recorder
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers is here to show you how a research lab requiring to monitor temperature goes paperless with a digital chart recorder saving valuable time and enabling instant data readings. ...
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dataTaker Will Monitor Power Consumption Hassle-Free
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: To monitor power consumption for energy efficiency studies and to capture fluctuations in the grid, a plant installed a dataTaker DT80 data logger. ...
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Oil Well Monitoring Made Safer & More Productive
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: The SAGD process is more carefully measured and extremely accurate with a dataTaker data logger for safer oil well monitoring. ...
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Remote Monitoring Solution for Biogas Production Process
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: With pressing evironmental issues, a dataTaker datalogger proves to be the best remote monitoring solution for a biogas production process. ...
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Self-Regulating Closed-Loop Systems For More Precise Control
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Closed loop systems are ideal for a wide range of industries with their ability to self-regulate processes and provide accurate feedback. ...
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Smarter than the Average Basketball
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: What's so smart about the world's smartest basketball? ...
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Energy Efficiency For Food & Beverage Distributors
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS presents the findings of HotWattEnergy's energy efficiency program implemented at a beer distributor ultilizing the RTR-500 wireless data loggers. ...
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Environmental Data Collection Protects Medical Warehouse
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Environmental data collection using T&D dataloggers protects and monitors the temperature and humidity of a medical warehouse. ...
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Part II: How Fast Of a Sample Rate Does Your Data Logger Need?
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: How fast should your data logger sample? Understanding your application requirements can help you achieve the best sample rate at an affordable cost. ...
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DAQ System As High Speed Brake Testing Equipment
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Adwin Gold DAQ System works as brake testing equipment to validate performance in a prototype passenger car for accurate and accessible data. ...
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Underhood Thermal Management & Engine Cooling Analysis
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Proton's automotive engineers use a Delphin device to test underhood thermal management of a vehicle to ensure that parts were performing properly. ...
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Wastewater Monitoring System with a Wireless Datalogger
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: In a wastewater monitoring system the T&D RTR-502 datalogger preforms highly-accurate measurements and automatically downloads data wirelessly. ...
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Part I: How Fast Of a Sample Rate Does Your Data Logger Need?
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: How fast should your data logger sample? Understanding your application requirements can help you achieve the best sample rate at an affordable cost. ...
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Using the Winlog Lite SCADA Package with a DT80-Range Logger
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: In this Technical Article CAS DataLoggers shows you how the Winlog Lite SCADA Software enabling a widerange of application development & online browser-based access. ...
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Measure Surface Temperature of Cooling Metal for Quality Welds
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers is here to show you how the dataTaker DT82I assists in measuring surface temperature of cooling metal to ensure a quality weld and prevent metal deformation. ...
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Cold Atom Physics Experiments Controlled by ADwin
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers shows you how The Adwin Pro II data acquisition and expandable system provided a control solution to a cold atom physics experiment at a major university. ...
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ADwin for Plastic Injection Molding Process Monitoring
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers is here to show you how the ADwin Data Acquisition product monitors & controls the plastic injection molding process by maintaining quality & a controlled shot injection. ...
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Industrial Temperature Monitoring DataLogger Systems
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS Dataloggers sells hundreds of industrial temperature monitoring systems each year to help replace the need for manual measurements and mistakes. ...
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Spotted: ifm in racing
From: ifm electronic gmbhDescription: ifm sensors can also be found in racing: e.g. in Time Attack race cars. ...
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Water Flow Monitoring Helps Avoid Costly Fines
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers is here to show you how a distribution company contacted CAS in order to source a water flow monitoring solution to avoid costly fines and increase profits. ...
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Wastewater Monitoring Equipment for An Airport Group
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers is here to show you how an airport group required a wastewater monitoring solution to prevent toxic discharge from de-icer from having an impact on the environment. ...
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Diesel Particulate Filter Testing with Vehicle Data Acquisition
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers is here to explain how a German manufacturer required a vehicle data acquisition to measure exhaust emissions during diesel particulate filter production testing. ...
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Clean-room Monitoring Systems Keep Pharma Data Secure
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: CAS DataLoggers wants to show you how continuous & secure data retrieval is critical in the pharma industry where clean-room monitoring systems are used in compliance with GAMP guidelines. ...
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Learn Basic Techniques for Accurate Resistance Measurement with CAS DataLoggers
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Some of our callers are surprised to learn that there are a variety of different techniques to use to obtain more accurate resistance measurements. ...
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Guide to Saving Time with Intelligent Data Logging
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Learn with CAS DataLoggers on how advances in technology, intelligent data logging can dramatically reduce the amount of time and effort required to extract critical information. ...
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Delphin Expert Key vs National Instruments NI-USB-6363
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: See how the Delphin Expert Key stacks up to National Instruments USB-6363 when it comes to choosing the most suitable data acquisition system for you. ...
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Flare Stack Monitoring Minimizes Environmental Impact
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Learn how CAS DataLoggers provided a processor of industrial railcars needed a flare stack monitoring solution to ensure their flare stack processes met EPA flare regulations. ...
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Coker Valve Monitoring in a Refinery
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Come and learn how a reliable coker valve monitoring solution was needed to improve reliability and prevent periodic shutdowns in the oil refinery's process. ...
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Application Note: Splitting Gas Detector Outputs for Monitoring & Process Control
From: Acromag, Inc.Description: At a remote wastewater pumping station, Methane (CH4) and Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) are monitored with MSA X5000 Gas Monitors. The 4-20mA outputs must be split to a GasCard XL Controller and Emerson ...
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3 Important Factors for Choosing a pH Data Logger
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: 3 important factors to consider when selecting a pH data logger to capture accurate pH measurements for quality control, compliance reporting & more. ...
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Using PSI5 Sensor Interfaces with ADwin Real-Time Systems
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: See how CAS DataLoggers found a sensor manufacturer was looking for a system to simultaneously test multiple automotive devices using PSI5 Sensor Interfaces. ...
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Data Logger vs DAQ
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: Key Differences Between Data Logging and Data Acquisition What is the difference between a Data Logger vs DAQ System? A data logger is a type of data acquisition system, but a data acquisition system ...
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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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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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Signal Conditioning Accuracy vs Resolution
From: Dataforth CorporationDescription: In the process of analyzing system accuracy needs, the topic of resolution requires attention as it relates to overall accuracy. Oftentimes distinguishing between accuracy and resolution is ...
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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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Maintaining Data Integrity from Creation to Consumption in an Infrastructure Environment
From: PHOENIX CONTACT USADescription: Data utilization has escalated many times in modern infrastructure due to the need for information. This data is required for improving process efficiency, security, and decision-making. For example, ...
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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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High Density Signal Processing in Factory Automation
From: OMEGA Engineering, Inc.Description: The Automation industry uses a wide range of control cabinets on the factory floor. Process parameters being monitored and controlled frequently require signal conversion and/or isolation before being ...
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Signal Conditioning and Transmission in Temperature Measurement
From: OMEGA Engineering, Inc.Description: Output signals produced by temperature measurement sensors require conditioning to convert them to a form that can be used for further processing. Signal conditioning consists of: While conditioning ...
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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: Control of a Solids-containing Flow in an Enzyme Production Process Using I/P Converter
Description: In an enzyme production plant the process fluids contain cellulose particles with a size of approx. 8 mm. When the valve is quickly settled, it may be blocked. This effect occurs in conjunction with ...
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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 "Digital Test Field Motorway" Project
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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Application Note: Signal Conditioning, Getting the Most for Your Money
From: Acromag, Inc.Description: A variety of plant, process, and instrumentation engineers, along with systems integrators, regularly face the difficult task of shopping for signal conditioners. ...
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Tech Note: Top 10 Advances in RTD Signal Conditioning
From: Acromag, Inc.Description: Recent innovations in signal conditioning technology for RTD temperature measurements are made possible by employing application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) in commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) ...
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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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Serial bus decoding and protocol analysis
From: Pico TechnologyDescription: Serial communication buses are used extensively in modern electronic designs. Serial buses offer significant cost advantages and some performance improvements over parallel bus communications. First ...
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STANDARDS - CONSTRAINING INSTRUMENTATION INNOVATION?
From: Convergence InstrumentsDescription: Is our instrumentation moving with the times? Our current instrumentation owes it genesis to the condenser microphone, simple valve amplifiers and moving coil displays. The existence of highly ...
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Paperless & remote workflows-no problem for the Lufft I-BOX!
From: LufftUSADescription: Here we summarize some industrial customer references for you and describe their applications with the smart gateway of the measurement technology... ...
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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: The TT230 and TT330 series of space-saving, 2 or 4-wire transmitters and isolators are offered for a range of inputs with sink/source 4-20mA output compatibility. Using isolation, these transmitters ...
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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 ...