ALL-PURPOSE DATA-LOGGER-SYSTEM UNILOG FOR PRODUCTION ENGINEERING RESEARCH IN PLANT-PRODUCTION

For further development and improvement of agricultural production processes determination of technical and production engineering data of agricultural machinery and implements is necessary. Besides suitable sensors a data-logger-system is required for automatic collecting and storing of the sensor signals. The advantage of self-developed systems is important flexibility for changing measuring tasks and high service practicability. At the Institute of Production Engineering such a data-logger-system was developed. Equipment with hard- and software was described and the various possibilities were shown using an experiment for moving and chopping on set-aside fields. Up to now, the use of the data-logger-system UNILOG has fulfilled all expectations. Powerful, variable and robust as well as reliable in use, UNILOG became an indispensable instrument for production engineering research. Control of measured quantities during experiment and immediately following presentation of the results allows a more or less online control and ensure an efficient realization of the experiments.