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Ultrasonic Sensor Applications
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| Level Control for Caustic Liquids |
| The customer needs to monitor the liquid level of warm acid bath and provide continual status report to a process control |
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| The customer makes an edible product that is quite small and dark in color. The product is produced in enormous quantities each day and is conveyed to the packaging area on high speed conveyors. |
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| Liquid Level Control with Stand Pipe |
| A waste water treatment plant wanted to record waste water flow from the v-notch wier (an open channel hi-volume flow measurement device) to satisfy their EPA discharge permit requirements. The other challenges (facing the customer were that the V-notch wier is a non-linear device, and the water flow is turbulent |
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| The customer is a manufacturer of core sand producing equipment. This equipment mixes sand and resin to the proper consistency to be formed into the proper shape to displace molten mental in a molding operation. |
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| Fill Level Control for Packaging Line |
| The customer is a major cereal manufacturer and produces 15 different cereals. The customer needs to control the fill level of each box of cereal on the filler conveyor line. |
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| The customer needed to know the diameter of finished rolls of paper products so that they can be packaged. The roll diameters will be between 25" and 72", and they will stop momentarily in a vee notch. |
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| The customer is a material handling company. They need a sensor for their automatic stretch wrapper. The sensor is mounted under the conveyor section of the stretch wrapper. It is used to detect a forklift which is loading and unloading material |
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| The customer a major CRT manufacturing facility was having maintenance problems with the photocells on their conveyor lines. The main problems were dirt accumulation and misalignment of reflectors. |
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| Conveyor Bulk Materials Level Control |
| The customer is a manufacturer of raw sugar and black strap molasses. The application was to maintain a level in the main sugar cane carrier (conveyor). In the past this was accomplished by manual monitoring and control. This was a time consuming operation which reduced the productivity and efficiency of the plant. |
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| The customer is an industrial building material manufacturer who needs to monitor the level of a sand/gravel mixture in silo. The mixture is used to make concrete. In the past this was accomplished manually by a worker outside the silo looking in. |
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| Data Acquisition for Highway Maintenance |
| The customer is a private contractor doing road repair work in a rural country in the south. They need to be able to sense variations in the pavement (ruts, potholes, etc.) while traveling at a speed that will not impede traffic or cause safety issues. |
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| Conveyor Line Monitoring of Bottle |
| The customer is a major soft drink company with sales in the hundred of millions each year worldwide. Tis bottling plant is responsible for filling thousands of one and two-liter bottles each day for distribution throghout the United States. |
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| Thru Beam Ultrasonic Sensors |
| The customer is a major automotive components company located in New York. They need to be able to sense the presence or absence of a divider plate in the heater cores, other sensors have been ineffective in this application. The divider plate is installed to create two chambers within the heater core. |
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| Liquid Level Control/Waste Treatment |
| The customer needs to monitor the level of material in a tank. The customer's problem is that if the transducer face gets covered with mud the tank will overflow and spill all over their planf floor. The customer needs a sensor that will shut off the pump to the tank if the transducer were to get covered in mud. |
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| Roll Diameter/Roll Alignment Control |
| The customer is major camera film company who is having a problem with optical sensors sensing the film as it is wound onto spools. Due to the fact that the film needs to be in the dark or it will be exposed, optical sensors are not the best option. |
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