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Industrial Measurement and Control

Case Study: Industrial Measurement
Creative Solutions for Difficult-to-Measure Process Measurements

industrial measurementMLE has many years of experience in developing innovative measurement techniques and implementing them into advanced industrial processes. Our expertise spans a huge variety of industries, as diverse as cable and carpet manufacturing, painting processes and mechanical vibration analysis.

Whatever the application, MLE solutions stem from the ability - and eagerness - to analyse problems and furnish clients with workable, economical solutions.

For example, our skills in analogue and digital electronics helped a client overcome key challenges measuring the capacitance of coaxial cables whilst they are being extruded.

industrial measurementIn-process measurement depends on injecting a low-level signal into the wire as it passes through a cooling water bath, then measuring the charge received at electrodes placed in the bath. So far, so good, but the key challenges involved ensuring accuracy where temperatures can range from 10 to 50ºC. MLE developed the stable amplifier required to drive the necessary signals into a capacitative load and a high-gain amplifier that was stable across the range of external environments.

Innovation, experience and multi-discipline teamwork are the keys to MLE's success in industrial measurement and applying electronics technology skills to control and automation.

Industrial Control

Cost reduction, inventory management and simplified production are crucial driving forces for today's industrial systems integrators. Couple that with the ever-present demand to reduce the space and power required in control cabinets and it's easy to see why control vendors are increasingly turning to multi-skilled specialists like ML Electronics to resolve these key issues.

Take MLE's experience in the HVAC industry, for instance. Here, complex logic, timing and interlocks are traditionally controlled by cabinets full of relays, timers, counters and PLCs. A number of vendors have commissioned MLE to develop single-board solutions based on microcontrollersindustrial measurement that integrate all the required functionality. Processing power of today's MCUs, on-chip peripherals and I/O is combined with product-specific logic coded by MLE software engineers, enabling dozens of individual products to be produced from a single PCB, and then customised during manufacture by simply inserting the relevant chip.

So what are the benefits of partnering with MLE? More compact, less power-hungry products with lower complexity, smaller inventories and infinitely simpler production.

 

 

 

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