Laser sensors.Sentech Controls Inc. (Precimeter Inc.) now offers ProH, a line of laser-based displacement sensors that features advanced triangulation triangulation: see geodesy. The use of two known coordinates to determine the location of a third. Used by ship captains for centuries to navigate on the high seas, triangulation is employed in GPS receivers to pinpoint their current location on earth. technology in a compact housing. The sensors have built-in signal processing See DSP. , which eliminates the need for external controllers. They also have a flexible metal hose, or pipe, for cooling-air supply and cable protection. The line of sensors can be used to control the level of molten metal in the mold, trough Trough The stage of the economy's business cycle that marks the end of a period of declining business activity and the transition to expansion. , head box or furnace furnace, enclosed space for the burning of fuel. There are many kinds of furnaces, the type depending upon the fuel and the use to which the heat produced within it is put. Most familiar are the furnaces used in the heating of buildings. .--Sentech Controls Inc. Select NO. 126 at www.moderncasting.com/info [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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