Project overview
Before we dive into building the project, it is important to understand what we are developing and why. For our final project, we are going to build an industrial oven. Industrial ovens are often used in the manufacturing process for various applications such as curing paint, baking in chemicals, drying parts, or any number of other applications.
Our simulated customer is requesting an oven system for drying metal fixtures after they come from being washed. The way the manufacturing process works is that once a part is washed, it is placed in the oven for a variable amount of time depending on the fixture so that all excess moisture can be burned off. We have to be careful because there are rubber O-rings in the fixtures that will melt if the O-rings experience temperatures above their rated limit. The customer will want to be able to dry different parts that will require different dry times, and each fixture will have an O-ring with a different temperature limit...