Networked Industrial Thickness Measuring System – May 01, 2004 (read more)

Lime Daley's (even before the name "Lime Daley" existed) first project was to create a device that could measure the spacing between two giant rollers (40 feet long, 6 feet in diameter) in a paper mill.  Measuring the thickness of deformation of the rollers against each other (with the sensing device in between) we were able to accurately display how far apart the rollers were from each other. The idea is to make sure that the rollers are aligned properly to produce paper of an even thickness.

The existing system did the job, but could only measure at 16 points across the 40 foot span, and the customer desired more data points, but without all of the extra wires.