Flexible data acquisition and data-logging system for energy monitoring system for manufacturing equipments

Energy resources in the world are neither re-usable nor recyclable. Right energy management and reduction practices can help achieve significant results. Reducing the energy consumption in production processes can significantly improve environmental performance of manufacturing system. This master's thesis aims to develop an accurate, robust and flexible Monitoring and Data Acquisition system. However, the challenges includes communications with disparate sub-systems and data sources which have been addressed. Focus is also given on efficient application development and database design implementation. LabVIEW based system has been developed to serve as an intelligent base processing system. The process data can be successfully logged at high data logging rate and the system has shown promising performance, adaptability and scalability.Master of Science (Computer Control and Automation