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Regulation of the acquisition speed

Regulation of the acquisition speed

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

 

regulation of the acquisition speed

Challenge

In a measurement device, inductive displacement transducers are acquired simultaneously and the measurement values are processed with a PLC. From time to time, the measurement values show extreme fluctuations which causes a rise in rejects.

But as the rejects are manually measured again, it turns out that they are not faulty.
The reason: Forklift truck traffic passing close to the machine create vibrations that cause pseudo rejects.

Solution for the regulation of the acquisition speed

The intelligent Ethernet length measurement system MSX-E3711 acquires the inductive displacement transducers simultaneously. Parameterisation is effected through ModBus TCP. The measured values then are transferred via Ethernet to the PLC that controls the machine.

As a reference, an additional transducer is acquired. As soon as a forklift truck approaches, it begins to vibrate. At the same time, on the other transducers the measurement values begin to fluctuate which would result inevitably in inaccurate measurement values. In order to keep the measurement accuracy of the transducers in spite of vibrations, the PLC reduces the acquisition speed of the MSX-E3711: The integrated average determination is activated through Modbus command.
This reduces the acquisition speed but ensures the precision of the measurement values.
In critical cases, the acquisition can even be stopped.

As soon as the forklift truck has passed the machine and the vibration is over, the PLC resets the acquisition parameters through ModBus command.
Then, the measurement is effected with maximum speed again.

Thus the rejects due to measurement errors are considerably reduced and the quality and reliability of the measurement values is significantly increased.

Product page MSX-E3711