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A sensor is any functional unit that records a desired information from a process and provides it for subsequent processing (CIRP Dictionary of Production Engineering 2004).
A sensor is typically a device that transforms signals from the mechanical, thermal, radiant, chemical, or magnetic domain to the electrical domain, but it could measure electric values as well. A single sensor may be based on cross-effects between different signal domains to achieve the signal transformation to the electrical domain to be read by a human or an electronic instrument. These cross-effects are shown in Table 1, where the input signal domains are on the left-hand side, and the output signal domains are at the top (Meijer 2008).
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Leu, M.C. (2019). Sensor (Assembly). In: Chatti, S., Laperrière, L., Reinhart, G., Tolio, T. (eds) CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53120-4_6630
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