Monitoring and controlling temperature is essential in a variety of process applications. In food processing and pasteurizing, the correct temperature ensure the quality and safety of a product. Industrial automation applications require an exact temperature reading to protect equipment from failure.
Typical RTD assemblies use a head chamber design. It consists of a probe body, process connector, joining nut, head chamber, and either a terminal or a transmitter terminal puck. These individual components are fitted together and hand-wired to screw terminals. These systems are subject to moisture, causing the signal to drift, and the multi-component assembly requires constant calibration adjustment.
Many of ifm’s temperature instruments consist of a fully welded 316 stainless steel IP69K hermetically sealed construction. Since the RTD and electronics are integrated, they are calibrated together during production. This provides a single value for accuacy, as opposed to the additive accuracy for multiple components.
The fully calibrated and ready-to-install one-piece design solves all of the typical drift issues of head chamber systems.
Installation is easy and, because most ifm temperature sensors are IO-Link enabled, setup is achieved in a few minutes using the moneo | configure software on a laptop or the moneo | blue app that runs on a mobile device.