Application examples

SEP

2017

Temperature measurement

Measurement of pressure, temperature and air flow in an industrial oven Challenge In an industrial oven with temperatures up to 70°C, temperature, pressure and airflow shall be measured. As no power supply is available inside the oven, the system must be supplied by an autarkic power supply. A...

NOV

2015

Optimisation of the traverse path

CNC milling machine with optimised speed and precision of the traverse path Optimisation of the traverse path Challenge A manufacturer of CNC milling machines wants to optimise the traverse path of his machines and their speed and precision. The mechanical wear of the axes is also to be...

NOV

2015

Monitoring of wafer production machines

Machine data transfer via Ethernet to a Maestria® data bank for statistical purposes Monitoring of wafer production machines Challenge In order to achieve the best quality of wafers with regard to purity, roughness and flatness and to reduce rejects, data is to be acquired from each machine and...

NOV

2015

Shaft measurement

Extension of an optical shaft measurement machine with a tactile measurement device Task Cylinder-symmetric as well as non cylinder-symmetric parts of a shaft are to be measured with an optical shaft measurement machine. For this, half-bridge transducers are connected to an optical shaft...

OCT

2015

Supervision of a collection tank for chemicals

Measurement of pressure, temperature and fill level of a collection tank for a highly reactive cleaning fluid Supervision of a collection tank for chemicals Challenge The fill level, temperature and pressure of an outdoor collection tank for highly reactive cleaning fluid is to be supervised....

FEB

2015

Increasing the productivity of a flake board production facility

A manufacturer of flake boards needs to save material, glue and energy costs, reduce the wear of the grinding belts and optimise the time for the press process.

SEP

2014

Avoiding downtime in bottling plants

Starting this Saturday, the beer in Munich will flow like water again. Also this year, six breweries deliver this precious liquid. Even in the shops you can buy it. During summer, it is bottled at high rate within a short time. So there is no time for downtime. Fortunately, inline measurement...

JUL

2014

Weighing, sorting and packaging of apples

Weighing and packaging machine

A fruit wholesaler needs a device for weighing, sorting and packing apples into trays. For this task, the digital PCI-Express board APCIe-1532 is integrated into the device and connected to a digital scale.

JUL

2014

Test of the functional ability of an ABS control device

ABS test bench

Construction of a test bench for testing the functional ability of ABS devices.

FEB

2014

Axis positioning for measurement devices

Acquisition of position encoders

Exact axis positioning for the regulation of surface measurement devices for rotationally symmetric parts (e.g. gear wheels)

NOV

2013

Precise assignment of the scanned pictures through exact positioning of the MRT table

Exact positioning of a magnetic resonance tomograph (MRT)

The board APCI-1710 is used for the positioning of an MRT table. The high precision of the positioning allows an exact assignment of the scanned pictures.

NOV

2013

Control of rotary folding machines

Precise tracking of secondary axes in relation to the main axis with the intelligent motion control board APCI-8008

NOV

2013

Test device for gear wheels for watches

Development of a measurement device for existing high-precision µApp transducers. For the measurement of the surface of gear wheels for watches.

NOV

2013

Acquisition and consolidation of sensor and GPS data in real time

Flight tests

Measurement (µs range) with sensors and GPS synchronization of ultrasound, pressure, incremental encoders, motor rotational speed and acceleration. With MSX-Box and PCI boards.

NOV

2013

Active vibration damping

Real-time system for measuring vibration values and controlling actuators for active vibration damping.

NOV

2013

Detection of length and maximum diameter of a spherical roll

Measurement of a spherical roll

Measurement of length and maximum diameter of a spherical roll with the intelligent Ethernet system MSX-E3711. The onboard calculation saves resources of the process-controlling PLC.

NOV

2013

Surface testing

Surface testing of brake discs using the intelligent Ethernet systems MSX-E1701 (counter) and MSX-E3701 (length measurement).

NOV

2013

Measurement tasks in a coal power plant

Measurement tasks in a coal power plant with the PAC system MSX-Box and PCI acquisition boards. The measurement data is sent per WLAN to a remote desktop.

NOV

2013

Monitoring of a tools motor current

Monitoring of a tools motor current with the intelligent Ethernet system MSX-E3121. If the limit value is exceeded, the PLC is triggered and shuts the motor down.

OCT

2013

Reducing rejects through cycle-dependent monitoring of the press depth

Optimisation of the press process

For the optimisation of the press process, a MSX-E3011 Ethernet analog input system reads the values (100 kHz frequency, 16-bit), then transfers them to the PLC.

SEP

2013

Gas tank supervision

Gas tank supervision and gas leak detection application using intelligent Ethernet systems with analog and digital I/O functions and gas sensors.

SEP

2013

Temperature monitoring in a steelwork

For the temperature monitoring in a steelwork, the PAC-system MSX-Box acquires and calculates the values in real time and sends them to the PLC.

SEP

2013

Temperature measurement device for a submarine

Compact data logger for temperature measurement and reporting of exceeded limit values

SEP

2013

Temperature and humidity measurement

Intelligent monitoring of temperature and air humidity in clean rooms, laboratories and calibration rooms

JUL

2013

Increase the yield of a photovoltaic plant

Intelligent monitoring and control of an industrial photovoltaic plant in the desert for maximum current yield

MAY

2013

Regulation of the acquisition speed

Measurement device eliminates the „pseudo rejects” of a measurement machine

JAN

2013

Measurement device for clutch discs

Automatic measurement device for functional reliability tests of pull-back springs on clutch discs

JAN

2013

Positioning of axes for surface measurement

For the measurement of the surfaces of rotationally symmetric parts numerous axes must be positioned. Furthermore, a fast signal transfer is required in order to detect the position as exactly as possible. To save time, absolute encoders are used because they do not need any reference runs when...

JAN

2013

Position acquisition in a welding process

For the position acquisition of the glass components, the Ethernet counter system MSX-E1731 with EnDat 2.2 sensors has been chosen due to its speed and precision.

JAN

2013

Diameter measurement of gear wheels

A manual test station shall be replaced by a modern and easy-to-use measuring system. The goal is to improve the accuracy of the measurement and to avoid errors which occur when measurement values are entered manually.

JAN

2013

Long-term temperature measurement in wind power plants

With three cascadable intelligent MSX-E systems, a measurement over weeks can be realised and logged

JAN

2013

Measurement of emission values, boost pressure and temperature for engine test benches

An automotive manufacturer wants to build test benches for engines to measure, among other data, the temperature inside the engines, the emission values and the boost pressure.

JAN

2013

Measurement of railway tracks to reduce the wear and to optimise the travelling speed

A railway company wants a system for the measuring railway tracks and of the contact / force between pantograph and overhead traction line.

JAN

2013

Muzzle velocity measurement

In order to measure the time that one bullet needs to get from the first light barrier to the one, the intelligent multifunction counter system MSX-E1701 is used. Two counter inputs are used for the light barriers.

JAN

2013

Quality control of balls for ball-bearings

Measurement and control of a grinding machine producing balls for ball-bearings. The MSX-E3701 Ethernet system measures the dimensions of the balls and sends corrections to the PLC if necessary.

JAN

2013

Temperature regulation for the production of wafers

With an analog PC board the values of 32 pyrometers (0 to 10 V) are to be acquired with an acquisition cycle of 1 ms. Analog and digital outputs are used for controlling and regulating the heater lamps.