The week before last I talked about how I make some of the mechanical things for My Little Factory. A quick update on that: I have managed to make some progress on fabricating the escapements for the indexing conveyor, but…
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My Little Factory – Innovate
Posted in My Little Factory, Product Development Tagged with: Arduino, design, IIOT, innovate, inventions, load cell, maker, prototyping, Radio Shack, Raspberry Pi, summing board, Tibbo
Sensors 102: Signal Conditioning
Today’s post is about what goes on between an actual detection device and the input of a control system. In many control applications you don’t need to think about what goes on inside of a device. The signal is converted…
Posted in Load Cells, Process, Product Development, Sensing Tagged with: load cell, My Little Factory, sensors, signal conditioners, summing board, TTL
My Little Factory – April 2017
This post is the first in a series I am writing about a project I am working on, hence the “April 2017” designation. As most of my regular readers know, I have spent much of the past several years teaching…
Posted in Applications, Conveyors, Load Cells, Material Handling, My Little Factory, PLCs, Pneumatics, Process, Sensors, The Course, Training, vision Tagged with: Allen-Bradley, Arduino, Beckhoff, Escapement, load cell, machine building, machine vision, My Little Factory, Pick and Place, Raspberry Pi, Siemens, systems integration, Tibbo, training
Sensors 101 – Control System Inputs
In today’s post I’m going to ask you to think of sensors in a different way. Most engineers who are specifying equipment think of sensors as discrete or analog devices, proxes or photoelectrics, flow or pressure sensors, thermocouples and the…
Posted in Automation Concepts, Sensing, Sensors Tagged with: encoder, load cell, Machine Vision, machine vision, photoeyes, proxes, pushbuttons, resolver, sensors, thermocouple
Scales and Load Cells
Last week I described some of the vibratory equipment used in the system I was working on. I wrapped up most of the work on that system and have moved on to a different type of machine, but I thought…
Posted in gauging, Load Cells, Scales, Weighing Systems Tagged with: load cell, Mettler-Toledo, ProSoft, scales, weighing
Batching
Batching refers to a number of different techniques related to the automation world including the creation of an object stage by stage over a series of workstations or the execution of a series of jobs or programs on a computer…
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