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Tag: gauging

Magnetostrictive Sensors

By Frank Posted on January 17, 2013 Posted in gauging, LVDTs, Sensing, Sensors Tagged with gauging, Machine Vision, magnetostrictive, motion control, sensors

Several of my topics in the past have dealt with gauging and measurement. Most of the systems I have worked on in the past used LVDTs, encoders, optical sensors or machine vision when it came to accurately measuring the physical …

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Calibration

By Frank Posted on May 6, 2012 Posted in Applications, Calibration, gauging, Sensors, Test Equipment Tagged with calibration, gauging, scaling

As I work on my current automotive-related project I have reached the point where the system is operating in Auto Mode and testing a throttle body. There are various tests performed on this system including leak and flow tests, physical …

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Misumi

By Frank Posted on August 28, 2011 Posted in Extrusion, gauging, Vendors and Manufacturers Tagged with aluminum extrusion, gauging, Misumi, Tinkertoys, vendors

Despite being an Electrical and Controls engineer I often have to do mechanical design, albeit on a basic level. Whenever I need to fixture something, for instance on a vision application or other inspection, one of the first manufacturers I …

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LVDTs

By Frank Posted on August 14, 2011 Posted in gauging, LVDTs Tagged with gauging, LVDT

One of the first applications I wrote about on this blog back in January 2011 was a Rocker Arm Cover gauge that used a number of LVDTs to calculate a plane and its intercept points. In that blog I concentrated …

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Leak Tester

By Frank Posted on April 10, 2011 Posted in gauging, Test Equipment, vision Tagged with aluminum extrusion, gauging, Machine Vision, pressure testing

This is another application done with NAS from about 1998. We did a lot of vision, gauging and leak testing applications for Tennex, a Japanese cooperative venture in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. This company has since been bought by Mahle, a German …

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Transmission Test Stand

By Frank Posted on March 6, 2011 Posted in Applications, gauging, Vendors and Manufacturers Tagged with Automation Direct, gauging, Keyence, pressure testing, vendors

This small test stand was built in 2005 for Kiesler Automotive, a custom transmission builder in Maryville, Tennessee. After placing the transmission into the cradle and closing a couple of DeStaCo clamps by hand, a 2 hand anti-tiedown station is …

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Spotlight on Vision

By Frank Posted on February 16, 2011 Posted in Applications, vision Tagged with gauging, Machine Vision

In my previous life I spent about 30-40% of my time doing vision applications. Most of the jobs I did involved using “smart cameras” which are self-contained vision systems where the frame grabber circuitry, image processing and I/O are built …

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Rocker Cover Gauging

By Frank Posted on January 30, 2011 Posted in Applications, LVDTs Tagged with gauging, LVDT

This is an application to determine whether a gasket is located properly in a rocker arm cover. 3 LVDTs were used to measure the outside edges of a plastic rocker arm cover establishing a plane. 4 additional LVDTs were then …

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