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Article: Data acquisition systems fit wide-ranging applications.(Focus Data Acquisition)
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- Control Engineering
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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Quality data acquisition provides industrial users with the ability to optimize processes, maintain and/or improve product quality, ensure operational safety and environmental compliance, minimize downtime, and improve overall productivity. Control engineers have long depended on accurate data to provide their window into the manufacturing or testing process. Over the last couple of decades, data acquisition technologies have made great strides, including increasing measurement resolution and adaptation to a wide variety of platforms and networks. Flexibility has become a key word in data acquisition.
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