The competitive nature of the current world economy has placed new emphasis on productivity, quality control and energy consumption of production facilities. Market demands have placed added pressure on manufacturers to better control production and minimize fabrication and rejection of out-of-specifications products. The tube steel industry has particularly felt such pressure. Production efficiency of high quality product such as mechanical tubing has been constantly increasing in the past few years. Low volumes productions per batch have also increased the demands on production team to rapidly achieve final specifications of products with low numbers of "test" units. Sensors have been an integral part of this process. Sensors placed on the production line allow plant operator to control the production parameters as well as quickly react to unexpected situations. A large part of the increase in productivity is the results of an extensive use of sensors.
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