Talk:Instrumentation

Instrumentation Engineering Merge
''' Instrumentation Engineering is a stub, and highly redundant to the main article. If there's some obvious direction to expand it so that it says something more than "engineers who specialize in the science of instrumentation", then it would make sense to have its own article. I, however, have no idea slkfpjkmnlkep-p

what that direction would be. Sanguinity 18:15, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Merged. Instrumentation engineering was merged a mere month ago, so I hope merging Instrumentation Engineering before the four week window lapses is not considered premature, nor would be perceived as acting in bad faith. Sanguinity 18:48, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

I would place all information referencing measurements under a single heading of Measurement Science. Measurement Science is the art of making a valid measurement on a physical parameter. A valid measurement is one that can be defended to the fundamental laws of physics. In essence, making measurements of physical systems is applied physics. We can elaborate on the difference between a sensor, transducer ,detector, instrument etc. Under the best scenario we may develop a more standard language that can decipher the "specmanship" of manufacturers and the fundamental basis of error in physcial measurements. We could also elaborate on validation tools i.e. spectral analysis, correlation. In closing, my defininition of noise is simply "unwanted data" that is generated by many energy sources i.e. electrical, acoustic, mechanical,thermal etc:Measurement 19:06, 5 March 2007 (UTC).

Sources and Smart Instrumentation
I think that more sources are necessary for this article, and some information on Smart Instrumentation should also be included. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Zeruski (talk • contribs).

I also agree that there should be more information included on Smart Instrumentation, mainly transmitters. As an Industrial Control Technologist it is often difficult to find information on Smart Instruments, or about Smart Instruments, thus more information should be gathered.Spower007 (talk) 04:18, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Merge with Measuring Instrument
This article and Measuring instrument are highly redundant and should be merged. Rlsheehan (talk) 18:08, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

As an Industrial Controls Technologist, working in the field of instrumentation, I do not believe these articles should be merged at all. Measuring instrument is similair only in the measuring aspect and has nothing to do with any other topic of the instrumentation article. This article explains not only the job of instrument people, but explains control systems and items that are in those systems.Spower007 (talk) 04:15, 7 November 2008 (UTC)


 * In italian wikipedia we have 2 distinct articles, too, because "Measuring Instrument" and "Instrumentation" aren't the same. I propose to cancel the "union template". --Aushulz (talk) 01:28, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

what is mean by instrumentation —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.164.164.215 (talk) 08:35, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Too specific?
I'm primarily familiar with the industrial applications of instrumentation, but it seems as though this article is geared too much in that direction. After all, instrumentation pervades our daily lives, from automobiles to thermostats, and we have defined instrumentation as the art and science of measurement and control. The detail in this page is great, but we should propably try to show the whole picture of mensuration.

I'll try to start pulling together some references when I get home to my liptak book, as references on the internet are not that great regarding the general 'science' of instrumentation.

Regards,

MacK —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.16.199.130 (talk) 03:57, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

I am also an Industrial Control Technologist. Nothing should be merged. That would be akin to merging 'Computer science" and "The Computer" articles. Instrumentation is a particular engineering sector. It deals with process measurement and control for the purposes of automation for efficiency and quality. - 05/10/09 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.36.106.57 (talk) 20:52, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

I don't know if I agree hat 'Instrumentation' is specifically industrial in scope, nor does it only apply to engineering. Perhaps we should consider a broader scope. - MacK

It seems that the article is suffering from lack of succinctness. Perhaps a quick breakdown of systems would be worthwhile i.e.: Control vs. Measurement vs. Integrated sytem... The border of systems which control via feedback and also measure is not well defined here, and many examples are given, discussing how one could not neccesarily call individual parts instrumentation, but that the system itself might be called so. based on the ubiquity of measurement and control in a technological society, we should probably give this breakdown, and then give technological categories, and perhaps one example each. The more important emphases should be on Measurement principles and mechanisms (with links to physical principles), Control principles and mechanisms, Feedback loops, integrated systems, and the field itself as a discipline or subset within disciplines (engineering, laboratory, industry, computing, et cetera.) It's a pretty ambitious article, no matter what. --Fourloves (talk), 28 February 2012 (UTC)

History
Good start to the section, but very specific examples that do not necessarily reflect global instrumentation evolution. Time span is also too short. I've flagged some sections as dubious as they could be misleading without context. This section is written like a personal reflection or essay. Fourloves (talk) 00:17, 14 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Attempted to address your issues.159.83.196.1 (talk) 23:03, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

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