Development of an open-source system for monitoring of the injection mould

Authors: Tiago E.P. Gomes, Mylene S. Cadete, Victor Neto, J.A. Ferreira, Renato Febra, João Silva, Tiago Noversa, A.J. Pontes.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.82452/me20233602

ABSTRACT:

This work descibes an open-source sftware-based system for injection mould monitoring in the context of the mobilizing project TOOLING4G. This system includes a data acquisition module built around an Arduino microcontroller, which can be connected to any computer through USB. A software application written in Python was also developed. It includes a User Interface (UI) and is prepared to receive data from a second acquisition module. In its current development stage, the system allows: i) Visualization in graphs of data acquired at a rate of 10 Hz, corresponding to up to six sensors and ii) saving the data for later analysis and use.

Key Words:

Data acquisition, Injection mould monitoring, Open-source software, User interface

Affiliation:

Tiago E.P. Gomes, Mylene S. Cadete, Victor Neto, J.A. Ferreira, Renato Febra, João Silva, Tiago Noversa, A.J. Pontes.

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