For use within control and instrumentation systems, including process control, automative, embedded systems, etc.

Articles

• Self validation in process control, Roger Dettmer, IEE Review, July 2000. An interesting discussion on intelligent sensors that are capable of self-validation.
• A Student's Guide to Sensor Performance Specifications, Dennis Bernstein, appear in CSM. A basic introduction to sensors, sensitivity and static and calibration response curves.

Links to Other Resources

Thermocouples

• Insoluble temperature-sensing problem yields innovation, John Houldsworth, ISA InTech Magazine, July 1999. (pdf) Review of temperature errors present in cold-junction compensation, including the new, patented method of eliminating cold-junction errors, and an article on temperature measurement accuracy by an end-user.

Flow Sensors

• Bindicator Level and Flow Instrumentation -

pH Sensors

• Cole-Parmer

Level Sensors

• Bindicator Level and Flow Instrumentation

• Delta Controls Corporation
• Automation Products Group, Inc.
• Cameron
• HiTech Technologies, Inc.

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