A measuring location is a point or a tightly delineated section of the line (e.g. brush cleaning, furnace pre-heating zone or skin pass mill) at which one or more measurement signals are acquired.

The following types of measuring locations can be defined in the ibaQDR system:

• Standard measuring location

• Measuring location with offset (after a standard measuring location)

• Measuring location in front of the tracking start

• Reversing measuring location

• Dividing measuring location

A further sub-type “Tracking start” is provided once by default (generally a standard measuring location).

For measuring locations in front of the tracking start, the distance to the tracking start measuring location behind it must be specified, and for measuring locations with offset, the distance to the previous standard measuring location.

At a standard measuring location, product elongation can be taken into account.

At a reversing measuring location, product elongation and the number of reversing operations can be taken into account.

For correct product management (tracking) and mapping of measured values to the correct length, each measuring location also requires the information from the tracking ID and one or two length measurement signals.

For further information about the measuring locations and their configuration, see Creating and configuring the measuring locations.