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<div>Electric Current Assisted Sintering (ECAS) systems offer an efficient method for creating sintered materials. ECAS systems are complex systems that need both thermal and electrical models coupled with each other. It is crucial to monitor and document electrical and thermal variables such as temperature, current, voltage, power, and energy consumption with respect to time in an ECAS system throughout the sample production process. It is also important to model or obtain the electrical container model of the system, which has a significant determining effect on all operating characteristics. The electrical parameters of the container can be utilized to design autonomous ECAS systems that provide precise and higher-quality operation characteristics. The Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0 are contemporary solutions in the context of autonomous material production. They enable seamless connectivity and real-time data exchange and allow machines to work autonomously. This integration of IoT collectively with ECAS systems can enhance production efficiency, reduce downtime, and minimize production errors. IoT integration can create smarter, and more responsive ECAS systems ensuring the reliability and consistency of material production processes. In this study, an IoT-based ECAS system design approach that systematically measures electrical and thermal quantities during the sintering process and can be used to produce the correct container characteristics and to analyze the sintering regime is proposed. An algorithm that enables the determination of the container resistance and temperature online and offline by directly measuring input and output current and voltage waveforms and processing experimental data has been presented. The proposed design can be used to produce high-quality ECAS systems.</div>
Keywords: Sintering, Industry 4.0, IoT-based material production, ECAS, container characteristics© This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.