IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT, cilt.75, 2026 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
High-fidelity monitoring and control of industrial mechanical systems increasingly rely on multisensor measurements; however, most platforms remain constrained by software-timed acquisition and weakly controlled inter-channel synchronization. Such limitations introduce temporal uncertainty that distorts cross-modal relationships and undermines the physical interpretability of measured signals. This article introduces cross-modal temporal integrity (CMTI) as a measurable attribute of multisensor measurement systems, characterizing the extent to which temporally related physical phenomena preserve consistent and interpretable time relationships across heterogeneous sensing modalities. To realize CMTI, a deterministic, hardware-paced multisensor measurement architecture is presented, explicitly treating deterministic timing as a primary measurement condition, rather than a software-level implementation artifact or post-acquisition alignment step. The system synchronously acquires triaxial vibration, bilateral hydraulic pressure, and bilateral displacement signals within a single clock domain, exhibiting a fixed inter-channel temporal offset (Delta t approximate to 7 mu s) at 20 kHz per channel. Deterministic timing enables phase-consistent waveform alignment and physically interpretable symmetry and drift analysis without reliance on black-box modeling. Experimental validation on two industrial press-brake machines (320-and 1000-T), comprising more than 23 000 production cycles, demonstrates fixed and repeatable inter-channel temporal offsets, drift-free long-term behavior, and stable cross-modal alignment under continuous industrial operation. The results thereby establish CMTI as a foundational requirement for high-fidelity multisensor measurement in industrial mechanical sensing applications.