Press Releases from CAS DataLoggers (412 total)
Visit CAS DataLoggers at Pittcon 2020
The World's Largest Lab Expo, March 3rd-5th in Chicago
CAS DataLoggers is proud to announce that we will be exhibiting along with TandD US, LLC at Pittcon 2020! Pittcon is the world's leading annual conference and exposition on laboratory science. Hosted in Chicago, IL at McCormick Place on March 3rd-5th, Pittcon 2020 will draw a large crowd of attendees from industry, academia, and government from over 90 countries! This year, CAS…
Visit CAS DataLoggers at AHR 2020
The World’s Largest HVAC event is about to get underway—the annual AHR 2020 Expo is returning to Orlando, FL on Feb 3-5th. CAS DataLoggers Sales Mgr. Peter Martin is proud to attend along with Japan’s #1 datalogger manufacturer—T&D! Come visit us at Booth #7490 to see our cutting-edge HVAC solutions for performance validation, energy audits, and more!
With prices starting at just $109, T&D products give businesses and organizations an affordable…
New ADwin-X-A20 Compact Data Acquisition System
CAS is pleased to announce the new ADwin-X-A20 compact data acquisition and control system. It features a high performance, dual-core, 64-bit processor plus analog and digital inputs and outputs and a 1GB Ethernet communications interface to provide extremely precise, low latency real-time operation. Programs can be quickly created using either the user-friendly ADbasic development environment or through Simulink via the ADsim interface.
Standard Features:
-XILINK ZYNQ ARM Cortex-A9 666 MHz CPU, 64-Bit…
New Novus DigiRail Connect Ethernet I/O Module
CAS Dataloggers is pleased to announce the new Novus DigiRail Connect, an intelligent, distributed I/O module that can be used to expand data logging and data acquisition systems. A built-in Ethernet port allows it to act as a Modbus TCP server to send data over the network. This versatile product features mixed analog and digital inputs and outputs, which accept a variety of standard sensor and signal types including thermocouples,…
Identifying Water Meter Tampering Using a Data Logger
Advanced dataTaker Monitoring Solution Catches Utility Theft
CAS DataLoggers supplied the industrial data logging solution for Pasco County Utilities, a provider of utility services to customers at a reasonable cost and in an environmentally responsible manner. The Utility Services Branch provides water and sewer services, reclaimed water, solid waste/resource recovery, recycling, hazardous waste, and street lighting service to most of the residents in Pasco County. The company maintains many remote water…
Standalone Data Acquisition System Offers Secure Operation
Record Data Anywhere, Independent of a PC
Do you need to record environmental data in the field, away from PC support? Are power outages a concern? At CAS DataLoggers, many of our customers call in requesting a standalone data acquisition system which can simultaneously collect data from two or more different kinds of input sensors. Whether your project involves environmental data collection, industrial process monitoring, or another application, Delphin Expert Series…
Wireless Environmental Monitoring for a Tortoise Sanctuary
Temperature and Humidity Data Logger Monitors Habitat
CAS DataLoggers is proud to have provided the wireless environmental monitoring solution to Dave Friend, owner of the Ojai Sulcata Project Inc (OSP) in Ojai, California, which rescues and researches the massive Sulcata tortoise. These tough turtles are native to the southern Sahara Desert and are one of the largest species of tortoise on Earth, but their conservation status is currently listed as Threatened:…
Accurate Product Quality Testing for Fewer Failures
Delphin Expert Series Provides High-Speed Measurement
No matter your manufacturing process, your business can greatly benefit from accurate product quality testing and verification. This way, any failures can be caught as quickly as they are formed. However, the high variability in part formation makes monitoring values such as force and displacement difficult—the difference between a quality and defective part is often measured in milliseconds. Therefore, these demanding applications require a high-speed…
Plug-and-Play PC Data Acquisition
Delphin Expert Key Devices Offer Flexible Measurement
Recording measurement data using a PC requires solutions that are quick and easy to use. This in turn requires a data acquisition device with extremely high resolution, channel to channel isolation and reliability. To meet users’ needs, Delphin Expert Key devices have all these features and are also equipped with USB and LAN interfaces. For flexible monitoring and PC data acquisition, users can connect…
ADwin-Based Real-Time System Tests Six Switches in Parallel
ADwin Provides Extremely Fast Closed Loop Control
Multi-axis motion control systems are used extensively in manufacturing and laboratory research for positioning purposes. These systems often rely on feedback from position sensors to maintain closed-loop control for improved accuracy. In test and measurement applications, it is often desirable to use additional inputs as part of the feedback loop. For example, in scanning tunneling microscopes, a sample is moved in the X- and…
Bearing Vibration Analysis & Condition Monitoring to Improve Operation
Data Acquisition Systems Help Detect Impending Damage
The diagnosis of bearing damage in roller bearings is an integral part of servicing and maintenance tasks. Increasingly, technicians rely on condition monitoring systems (CMS) for machine diagnosis in plants and factories to perform bearing vibration analysis. Many CMS systems use vibration measurements to determine operating conditions. Two contrasting approaches exist: the diagnostic, qualitative approach (producing an envelope spectrum); and the quantitative approach (measuring…
Real-Time Production Monitoring to Solve Quality Control Problem
ADwin-Light-16 Records, Controls and Analyzes Critical Data
CAS DataLoggers provided the data acquisition solution for a factory supervisory team who were looking to solve a serious quality control problem on their main manufacturing line. Their process was experiencing issues from a valve controlling an air jet used to blow faulty-looking components off the line after they failed an optical inspection. The latency of the valve’s opening wasn’t optimal, so these parts…
Oil Refinery Uses Standalone Data Logger to Help Increase Efficiency
dataTaker Automates Data Collection and Transfer
CAS DataLoggers provided the automated data collection and transfer solution for a crude oil refinery which wanted a standalone data logger to take thermocouple readings in several their observation wells. These shafts are connected to the refinery via extensive pipelines for subsequent processing. Management stressed that alarming features were important–sudden temperature spikes during crude extraction could cause a rupture, while sudden drops lowered pumping efficiency.
Installation
The…
Top 3 Reasons Why Your Fridge Monitoring System's Readings Fluctuate
Guide to Implementing Automated Refrigerator Temperature Monitoring
Personnel installing new temperature monitoring systems in their refrigerators and freezers are often stumped as to why the temperature appears to vary unexpectedly. Our temperature data loggers and fridge monitoring systems provide significantly faster response time and significantly more data than conventional thermometers which often leads to the observation of temperature behavior that was previously missed. We have put together this quick guide to…
Monitoring Temperature for Industrial Heat Treating Ovens
Intelligent Data Loggers Provide High-Accuracy Data Collection
CAS DataLoggers provided the temperature data logging solution for a factory with multiple lines of (fixed) heat treating ovens. The factory’s existing procedures required employees to periodically read temperatures from controller displays and record all these temperatures on a piece of paper. However, this manual method proved to be inaccurate and time-consuming, so the customer wanted to eliminate these recording/transposing errors and extra labor.…
Pharmaceutical Clean Room Qualification Verifies Secure Operation
Delphin Systems Measure Every Environmental Parameter
In the pharmaceutical industry, continuous and secure data acquisition and documentation is crucial for production and storage requirements, and also for research and development. Pharmaceutical clean room qualification verifies secure operation of environmental conditions in labs storing temperature-sensitive substances. According to FDA CFR21 Part 11, data acquisition and monitoring systems within cleanrooms must operate in compliance with GAMP/GMP guidelines.
Additionally, measurement data and limit values for…
Real-Time Machine Condition Monitoring of Rotating Parts
Data Acquisition Systems for Machine Test Stands
Automotive test bench applications require real-time test and measurement for quality requirements and to lower recall rates. To achieve this, the use of data acquisition and control systems is especially common in test stand setups and machine condition monitoring. In particular, product quality technicians and test system integrators who need to view accurate data from rotating/spinning parts in motors, car engines, etc. are often…
Improve Pet Food Safety with Temperature Monitoring
Prove Best Supply Chain Practices with T&D Data Loggers
FSMA (the Food Safety Modernization Act)—has already begun to be enforced for large pet food manufacturers in an effort to improve pet food safety. As part of the FDA’s food safety mandate, FSMA requires that animal food processors produce electronic temperature documentation at every link of the cold chain.
Businesses are turning to a cost-effective way to ensure supply chain traceability. T&D temperature…
Agricultural Soil Testing to Increase Farmer Efficiency & Crop Yields
Leibniz Institute Goes High Tech for Testing Soil Conditions
*Adapted from ‘Guaranteeing Yields’ from Delphin Technology. Delphin Technology provided The Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (LIVO) with a custom data acquisition system for use in agricultural soil testing and mapping soil conditions in agricultural fields. The measurement system has been developed as part of the institute’s research aimed at establishing a scientific basis for efficient horticulture methods in sustainable…
Fully-Automated Monitoring of Engine Test Equipment
Precision Electrical Measurement Using Delphin
Motor Test stands are required during the automotive R&D phase for serial testing and endurance trials. Measurements taken of engine test equipment during the developmental phase such as Temperature and Voltage are fully automated whenever possible. Sensors check the electrical and mechanical properties of the test sample as well as temperature patterns and overload operation. Testing conditions can vary widely–from the tiniest of motors to large…
Heat Soak Test Verifies Prototype Vehicles
Reliable Satellite Communication Enables Remote Access to Data
A vehicle manufacturer used a unique data logging solution to help perform a series of rigorous tests on its prototype vehicles. The most punishing of these tests is called ‘Heat Soaking—here the vehicle is parked outside in a desert facility and left over an extended period. During this heat soak test, the vehicle’s internal temperature and other parameters need to be measured and…
Event Triggered Control & Data Acquisition Using an ADwin
Real-Time DAQ Systems Enable High-Speed Process Monitoring
*Adapted from 'Event Triggered Data Acquisition with ADwin’ by Doug Rathburn of Keithley Instruments, Inc.
Introduction
In today’s production environments, it is increasingly important to capture data coming from each process and exert some event triggered control over the process to maintain quality and efficiency. The data is often generated at asynchronous intervals making it difficult to capture the data and generate an appropriate feedback…
VersaLog WiFi Loggers Now Offer Access Point Server Mode
Updated Software & Firmware Offers Flexible Communication Options
We are pleased to announce that the new version of the SiteView software and Versalog firmware now provide AccessPoint Server Mode for the Versalog WiFi data loggers, allowing a direct connection between the logger and host PC. Previously, the Versalog loggers supported only standard server mode, whereby the logger and pc could only communicate through an existing network with a WiFi access point.…
Multichannel Data Acquisition System Automates Calibration & Sensor Compensation
Delphin Technology Show Advantages of Automation
Many of today’s measurement requirements involve large numbers of measurement channels and sensors. However, setup and preparation times for these large-scale measurement and testing procedures are often lengthy and can delay project deadlines. In many cases, engineers’ measurement results must be traceable, so the calibration of each sensor needs to be known and considered when analyzing data. To significantly reduce the effort required here, Delphin…
Safeguarding Production with Industrial Process Monitoring
Powerful Measurement Technology from Delphin
Delphin Technology and CAS Data Loggers present an industrial process monitoring application that provides substantial business benefit to your bottom line. Effective process monitoring is critical to avoiding downtime, ensuring product quality and alarm generation to avoid catastrophic loss. CAS DataLoggers will provide you with a Delphin data acquisition system to help protect your valuable business commodities by helping assess your requirements and finding the ideal…
Smart Data Logger Monitors Mining Operations for ROI
dataTaker Gathers Data Needed to Make Faster & Smarter Decisions
Data logger manufacturer dataTaker helps users gather the critical information needed to make faster and smarter decisions. These smart data logger systems are equally suited to customers in the industrial, manufacturing, scientific, geophysical, engineering, mining and defense industries.
At CAS DataLoggers we distribute dataTaker systems and consult with our customers to find the best product for the application. Our solutions help lower…
Vacation Home Remote Monitoring Through the Winter
Continuous Temperature Monitoring Protects Valuable Assets
CAS DataLoggers supplied a low-cost recording and alarming device to a homeowner in the Northeast who needed continual vacation home remote monitoring of temperature and humidity. This way the caretaker (a relative) could be alerted whenever the temperature was cold enough to cause burst pipes and other damage. This system would also need to be able to send current data several times a day and…
Intrusion Alarm System Uses SMS Notifications
Autonomous Alarming with an Infinite Data Logger
An electrician had a client in France who owned a house in a remote location. His house had been broken into three times that year and so the electrician was asked to install a GSM alarm with no outside or internal sounder, due to the fact that the last alarm system had recently been taken off the wall during the night. Since the house…
Structural Monitoring of the Copper Mining Process
dataTaker Helps Keep Copper Mine Operating Safely
Heavy industries place workers and machinery in some of the toughest working conditions. For the safety of both miners and machinery, structural monitoring is essential for identifying any potentially dangerous situations early on by closely monitoring the mine’s structure to detect ground movement or subsidence around the mine which could make the structure become unstable. A versatile data logging solution was required to record…
Adjustable High-Speed Acquisition for Test and Simulation
Pump Testing Application Benefits from Delphin Data Loggers
Pumps are required in diverse applications ranging from micro-dosage pumps in chemistry labs, standard pumps for gardens, all the way through to large-scale industrial or vacuum pumps. Each application has different test requirements, so users working in the pump sector greatly benefit from the flexibility and universal inputs of the Delphin Message and Expert Key devices. Adjustable sampling rates of up to 100…
Load Cell Monitoring System for Testing Anchor Bolts
Optimize Structural Bolt Tightening Procedure with dataTaker
CAS DataLoggers supplied the data logging solution for a world-leading manufacturer of masonry fasteners. As part of their product development, company engineers needed to measure the peak installation load and to monitor how the load reduced as the newly- installed fastener “bedded in”. Designers needed to determine such factors as bolt tightness over given periods of time (months/years) when calculating the required capacity for…
Industrial Data Loggers For Temperature Monitoring and Much More
Universal Data Loggers Monitor Equipment and Processes
Have you been tasked with monitoring industrial equipment or an industrial process like oven profiling, PLC performance, paper press statistics or any piece of equipment? At CAS DataLoggers, we provide solutions for simple temperature monitoring to identifying faults for an entire assembly line. We’ve put together this application note to explore some of the capabilities of our industrial data loggers that will…
How to Optimize Air Compressor Efficiency with a Data Logger
Compressor Measurement Systems Uses dataTaker DT80
Compressed air is a power source used by nearly all manufacturers worldwide. Energy use of compressed air systems is typically a significant part of the overall power consumption of a facility. From a business standpoint, it’s critically important to select a system with the correct capacity to optimize air compressor efficiency; if the selected compressor is too large then it will only operate occasionally and…
Industrial Remote Monitoring Systems with LTE
Plants and Factories Can Benefit from Independent Data Collection
Remote monitoring systems and data transmission have become a business-critical capability in many industries, especially in machine and plant engineering applications. To quickly implement these capabilities, Delphin Message or Expert Transient devices are commonly used for remote equipment monitoring due to their ability to perform:
• Independent data acquisition
• Data Recording
• Remote Monitoring of data
• Alarm notification via SMS text message
• Mathematical and…
Monitoring Temperature & Humidity in Operation Theatre
Accsense System Performs Automatic Environmental Monitoring
CAS DataLoggers provided a hospital with a system to monitor humidity in operation theatre conditions using the Accsense wireless system. Prior to the installation of the system, surgical staff had complained on several occasions about it ‘raining’ in their OR, meaning that the humidity had become high enough that condensation formed and started falling. Not only is this a violation of operating room standards, it…
Prepreg Manufacturing Process Benefits from Temperature Monitoring
dataTaker Handles High Channel Count for Heat Treatment
Plants and factories working with prepreg injection and other curing or heat treatment applications can greatly benefit from continual temperature monitoring for their prepreg manufacturing process. Curing, molding, and heat treat applications all save cost and improve product quality by using a data logger to record product temperatures. Temperature monitoring is equally applicable to monitoring phenolic, laminated material, metals and more.
A solution built…
ADwin Test System Reduces Application Development Time
Real-Time Data Acquisition and Control
Test systems are used to determine the dynamic characteristics and parameters of components and sensors. In R&D, these systems acquire not only component parameters but also characteristics of prototypes and pre-production models. Component endurance is determined by testing them over thousands of test cycles. On production lines, test benches ensure a higher level of quality through either random sample or individual component testing (CAQ). Test information…
Optimizing Commercial Dishwashers in a Busy Catering Kitchen
Multi-Value Data Logger Helps Streamline the Business
A busy catering kitchen required an intelligent system to monitor the operation of their commercial dishwashers. Their goal was to determine optimum wash times in order to have their kitchenware ready for re-use, and also for identifying when any dishwashers in the ‘dishwashing lane’ were malfunctioning. Management hoped that getting a detailed view of the process would benefit their business in the form of…
Monitoring Industrial Manufacturing Processes in Factories & Plants
Delphin Systems Offer Standalone Operation and Automation
Above all, industrial manufacturing processes in factories and plants must function smoothly. Downtimes for these continuous processes have to be minimized to avoid the resulting costs involved. Consequently, process monitoring is essential for error-free products and for maintaining the required quality standards.
Delphin ProfiMessage and Expert devices are single solutions for automating monitoring tasks of industrial manufacturing processes. Delphin systems are ideal due to their…
New Temperature Data Logger Provides Real-Time Shipment Tracking
Introducing the Cydiance Lorca GPRS Temperature Data Logger
CAS Dataloggers is pleased to announce the availability of the Lorca series of temperature data loggers manufactured by Cydiance. These devices allow real-time tracking of perishable shipments by providing temperature and location data through the Cydiance Book cloud-based web software. Temperature data is displayed in graphs and location data is shown in maps. The Lorca data loggers incorporate quad-band modems with LBS base…
Process Monitoring System for Explosives Manufacturing
Automated Solution Measures Multiple Parameters
dataTaker provided the process monitoring solution for a mining company with a unique application. Explosives for the mining industry are manufactured with a range of specified properties intended for particular uses. Nearly all of them contain ‘Nitropril,’ an explosives-grade ammonium nitrate. The industry’s requirements can only be met by manufacturing the ammonium nitrate to high-quality standards regarding water content, porosity, bulk density, and the type of…
T&D Celebrates 25 Years of Data Logging
Technology may rapidly change but T&D’s goal remains the same!
Over the past 25 years our partner T&D has continually developed next generation loggers to make sure your important data lives on and stays accessible.
Leave your data’s future to T&D
Designing a compact, PC compatible, long-life battery-operated data logger took years of trial and error and finally in 1994, T&D’s first temperature data logger was born. No longer did data loggers have…
Comprehensive Hospital Monitoring to Protect Patients
Accsense Systems Tracks & Alarms Temperature, Humidity & Pressure
For comprehensive hospital monitoring in surgical suites and cleanrooms, the Accsense Online Monitoring system will monitor the required physical parameters. This application was to monitor, record, and alarm the temperature, humidity and pressure in surgical suites and cleanrooms in a hospital. Accsense Online Monitoring systems are the choice of many healthcare facilities including Stanford Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital and the Cleveland Clinic…
Data Monitoring System for Rural Development Charity
dataTaker DT80 Intelligent Logger Measures Many Parameters
dataTaker, with integration from Engineers Without Borders Australia, provided the data monitoring system for RIDS-Nepal (Rural Integrated Development Services in Nepal), a Nepali non-profit, non-government organization with the stated mission to improve the overall living conditions of the impoverished high-altitude communities in the Nepal Himalayas. RIDS was involved in holistic community development projects and field-based research projects financed by donations from individuals and charities.…
Wireless Data Loggers Monitor Cheese Aging Process
Environmental Monitoring Helps Ensure Safety & Quality in Creamery
CAS DataLoggers provided the environmental monitoring solution for a dairy manufacturer to augment their existing Clean-in-place (CIP) systems. Located in Fithian, Illinois, Ludwig Farmstead Creamery is a producer of European-style artisan cheese made with day-fresh milk from their own Holstein cows. First, the cheese is crafted using day-fresh milk, then nurtured through an extensive cheese aging process.
After referring with a consultant in…
Energy Startup Uses Data Logger to Monitor Innovative Solar Tracking Device
dataTaker DT85 Acts as Mini Weather Station
In the solar industry, system validation is a critical step to bringing new technology to market. CAS DataLoggers provided the device and environmental monitoring solution for Sulas Industries, a solar energy startup that has patented an innovative passive solar tracking device that works without using any motors, gears or electronics. This unique system works by mimicking heliotropism, the ability of flowers to follow the…
Monitoring a Radon Mitigation System for Better Home Air Levels
ADU-500 Offers Cost-Effective, Wireless Solution to Contractors
Radon is a colorless, odorless radioactive gas that is present in trace amounts in the environment. It results as part of the radioactive decay chain of uranium and thorium in the earth’s crust. The problem is that it can leak up from the ground and accumulate in buildings; there is clear evidence that breathing air with high concentrations of radon gas can cause lung…
The Importance of Online Condition Monitoring for the Process Industry
ADwin Systems Help Prevent Process Control System Delays & Shutdowns
In the process industry, online condition monitoring of production-critical machines is becoming increasingly important with the rise of the Internet of Things. As a result, manufacturers are gradually replacing their redundant equipment with modern, PC-based data acquisition technology which enables predictable maintenance and scheduled production downtimes.
Remote Data Acquisition & Visualization
To achieve this approach, factories and plants need a remote stand-alone system…
Delphin DAQ System Performs Fault Diagnosis Test on CT Scanner
CAS DataLoggers Engineer Terry Nagy Solves a Unique Problem
CAS DataLoggers Engineer Terry Nagy worked on a uniquely challenging data acquisition application a few years ago which highlights the usefulness of Delphin data loggers, in this case it performs a fault diagnosis test on a CT scanner. A medical equipment manufacturer had a customer in a hospital that was experiencing problems with a CT scan machine. The machine would reset in…
FDA Compliant Blood Storage and Preservation
Accsense Monitoring System Automates Data Archive and Alarming
CAS DataLoggers provided the temperature alarming and monitoring system to a hospital blood bank looking to replace their old paper chart recorders as they became unreliable and spare parts were harder to find. For proper blood storage and preservation, the lab’s medical units needed to maintain storage temperatures between 2°C to 6°C (36°F to 43°F), given the perishability of blood components. The facility…
