Yokogawa Electric Corporation

Tomohiro Mineo

Atsushi Kodama

Yukihiro Seki

Akihiko Tsuchiya

Takao Maruyamam

Takahashi Sasaki

A sheet measurement and control system that enables easy installation and/or change of types of sensors to be disposed in or about a sensor head that reciprocally scans a sheet along a cross direction transverse to the sheet flow; wherein a plurality of sensors are disposed in or about the sensor head to measure characteristics of the sheet; a plurality of computation devices corresponding to the plurality of sensors are disposed in or about the sensor head to implement computation of the measuring signals from the sensors; a plurality of communication control devices corresponding to the plurality of computation devices are disposed in or about the sensor head for transmitting the processed measuring signals through a general network communication link attached thereto; and man-machine interface connected to the general network communication link monitors data from said communication control devices related to the measured signal and issues instructions to control the sheet manufacturing process.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tomohiro Mineo