Title :
Industry benefits as a result of time dissemination at CENAM
Author_Institution :
Centro Nacional de Metrologia, Mexico
Abstract :
Summary form only given, as follows. With the aim of disseminating the Coordinated Universal Time Scale UTC (CENAM) and with the purpose that industry gets benefit from the time scale, we were helpers (design, coordination, test and installation) of a synchronization system which can be used in factories to synchronize clocks, computers and netservers. This system was tested in a food factory. In this application, the system included four digital clocks, a computer interface and software for updating a computer (main computer which updates these clocks). The company obtained benefits from this work as follows: 1. Improved quality in its thermal production process. 2. Reduced losses both in time and production. 3. Improved coordination among departments. We also provide time to a large TV station. A banking institution receives time within an agreement between CENAM and this institution to assist it in network synchronization.
Keywords :
banking; clocks; food processing industry; measurement standards; network interfaces; network servers; synchronisation; time measurement; Coordinated Universal Time Scale; banking institution application; clock algorithm; computer interface; digital clocks; food factory application; improved coordination; improved quality; industry benefits; large TV station application; netserver update; serial communication; synchronization system; thermal production process; time dissemination; updating software; Application software; Banking; Clocks; Computer industry; Computer interfaces; Production facilities; Synchronization; System testing; TV; Time dissemination;
Conference_Titel :
Precision Electromagnetic Measurements Digest, 1998 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5018-9
DOI :
10.1109/CPEM.1998.699784