The “Digital Manufacturing” series aims to present the technologies involved in modern manufacturing controlled by specific computer systems. The specific elements of manufacturing systems such as joining and micro-joining technologies, technologies for automatic systems, mechanical processing and more are addressed in this book. The approach is easily descriptive without wanting to replace manuals for operator training.
This book is addressed to engineers and researchers involved in research and development activities related to measurement processes in order to monitor and control industrial processes.
The topics discussed refer to the principles of measurement in digital manufacturing being addressed to the most common issues encountered in measuring temperature using digital instruments.
The book is structured in seven chapters on: digital measurement instrumentation using smart sensors for Industry 4.0, some theoretical elements on the signals captured and transmitted by sensors and methods for measuring and approximating acquired signals, presentation of the theoretical elements underlying temperature monitoring in heating processes with the explanation of the operation of temperature sensors in contact or non-contact measurement mode, the presentation of the transducer circuits with the explanation of the connection methods in both analog and digital system, as well as the applied description of digital measurement systems. The last two chapters are dedicated to the presentation of research results in temperature monitoring in heating processes (temperature monitoring in electric heating, microwave heating, differential thermal analysis methods using infrared pyrometers or examples of temperature monitoring in silos with the help of integrated systems with wireless transmission of the data) as well as with some theoretical elements and application examples of temperature measurement with the help of the virtual instrumentation provided by the LabView environment. Simple examples of connecting physical measuring devices to the acquisition boards integrated in the LabView platform are presented, explaining the methods of virtual measurement of heating processes.
