A field-engineer’s guide to sensors, signal conditioning, data logging and calibration working as one system. I’ve walked onto more than one site where the client had bought a genuinely good sensor and still couldn’t trust the number on their screen.…
A client once sent me a drawing of a bracket with a load path I genuinely hadn’t seen before — combined bending and torsion, off-axis, in a housing with about 12mm of clearance either side. Every standard load cell in…
I once watched a client try to run a 40-metre instrumentation cable across a live conveyor gantry to get vibration data off a gearbox nobody could safely reach. It took two days, a scissor lift, and a lot of cable…
A sensor doesn’t lie, but it doesn’t always tell the truth clearly either. I’ve pulled apart enough junction boxes on mine sites to know that the raw output of a strain gauge or a pressure transducer is almost never usable…