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In the discrete-piece manufacturing industries as typified by metals, plastics, and other materials fabrication and assembly (machinery, automobiles, aircraft, appliances, electronic equipment, et al.), system geometry is nearly always of the utmost importance to maintaining product quality and throughput (productivity). In the flat goods and continuous-length product industries, geometric measurements, notably of thickness and caliper, are of equal importance in the control of film, foil, paper, wire, cable, and similar products. In the bulk/fluid industries (chemical, petroleum, food processing, among others), the measurement and control of liquid level (position of a fluid interface), the speed of bulk conveyors, and the volumetric feeding for fluid blending are but three examples of critical geometric variables that determine processing quality and profitability.
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Considine, D.M., Considine, G.D. (1986). Geometric Variables I: Position, Motion, Speed, Velocity. In: Considine, D.M., Considine, G.D. (eds) Standard Handbook of Industrial Automation. Chapman and Hall Advanced Industrial Technology Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1963-4_3
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