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High-resolution 2D/3D laser profile scanner ...

Micro-Epsilon: scanCONTROL 30xx/BL laser scanners are designed for dynamic measurement tasks with high demands on resolution and accuracy. Available with measuring ranges of 25 and 50 mm (along the laser line/X axis), they are primarily used in...

2020-01-29

Sensor Technology helps to keep sheep shorn

Sensor Technology: TorqSense transducers from Sensor Technology are playing an important role in new product development at Gloucestershire-based Lister Shearing, the oldest and one of the most successful suppliers of animal shearing and clipping...

2020-01-22

Honeywell launches New Media Isolated ...

Honeywell announced the launch of a new, high-performance, value-priced line of Media Isolated stainless steel pressure sensors (MIP) for the industrial and HVAC market. The new MIP series will give customers a single, customizable solution for...

2020-01-22

Save water, cleaning agents, and costs – the ...

Baumer: Milk, water, lye, water, acid, and water again: Cleaning a system for processing and filling food (clean in place, CIP) consists of an intricate choreography of process steps, during which different liquids alternately flow through the...

2020-01-21

Highest durability for in-cylinder position ...

Variohm EuroSensor: Recently launched by Novotechnik, the advanced measuring technologies leader, and available from Variohm EuroSensor, TM1 series linear position sensors are designed for simple and direct integration within hydraulic/pneumatic...

2020-01-17

TruStability™ DPR Series

Honeywell: The TruStability™ DPR Series is a piezoresistive silicon pressure sensor offering a ratiometric analog output for reading pressure over the specified full scale pressure span and temperature range. These sensors are fully...

2020-01-16

Temposonics® R-Series V now with POWERLINK

MTS Sensors: Following the successful market introduction of the Temposonics® R-Series V PROFINET, EtherNet/IP™ and SSI, MTS Sensors is glad to announce the addition of the POWERLINK output for the new generation. R-Series V...

2020-01-15

Temposonics® R-SERIES V IS NOW AVAILABLE WITH SS

MTS Sensors, a division of MTS Systems Corporation (NASDAQ: MTSC), releases the SSI version of its Temposonics® R-Series V position sensors for industrial applications.Following the successful market introduction of the R-Series V with...

2020-01-10

Reliable Object Detection with 3-D LiDAR ...

Pepperl+Fuchs: At the 2019 SPS trade fair in Nuremberg, Pepperl+Fuchs, the world's leading manufacturer of industrial sensors and sensor systems, was presenting the new R2300 multi-layer scanner. The sensor for 3-D object detection impresses by...

2019-12-20

Comprehensive Maintenance Solutions to ...

SONOTEC: Asset health becomes progressively important and thus a strategic corporate goal. The principles of Industry 4.0 to optimize processes, to increase operational safety and availability, and to improve energy efficiency are said to be one...

2019-12-18

ams to boost automotive electrification with ...

ams Sensors Germany GmbH: ams, a leading worldwide supplier of high performance sensor solutions, has introduced the first inductive position sensor for highspeed, automotive and industrial electric motors to be available as a standard product on...

2019-12-17

Laser distance sensors – NEW in the eddylab ...

Eddylab: The laser distance sensors with integrated electronics are suitable for non-contact displacement and distance measurement even on the most demanding surfaces. With different sizes, teachable measuring ranges between 10 mm and 13 m...

2019-12-11

Pressure sensor with low power consumption ...

Variohm EuroSensor’s new EPT31LE series pressure sensor features extremely fast power-up and response times and a low power consumption that perfectly suits mobile equipment pressure monitoring used in combination with battery and/or solar powered...

2019-12-04

Aspects of increased production speeds

Exergen Global: „Infrared temperature measurement methods of production processes are limited to material surfaces, and thus have a serious limitation in thermal process monitoring, particularly when considering speed increases. To overcome...

2019-11-26

Speedboost

Exergen Global: Exergen IRt/c™ non-contact temperature sensors can push production line performance to record highs and give an instant boost in start-up speed. Dr. Pompei has derived a mathematical model to describe the thermal processes...

2019-11-26

Industrial grade position feedback for IoT: ...

Variohm EuroSensor: Available for Variohm EuroSensor’s UK and Ireland customers, a new promotional price offer from Wachendorff covers the leading German industrial encoder and precision automation component manufacturers’ wide range...

2019-11-25

Optimized Encoder Portfolio

Turck: With an optimized encoder portfolio, Turck will serve in future a wide range of customer requirements – from price sensitive encoders, right through to particularly robust and wear free devices. From three product lines, users have...

2019-11-22

Measuring Sensors with IO-Link

Turck: Inductive measurement sensors with IO-Link and a voltage output complete the range of Turck's sensor portfolio. The flexibility of the new analog sensors offer users a range of different application scenarios. The devices can firstly be...

2019-11-18

Zemic loadcells used for weighing in ...

Zemic Europe: Today, 4.5 billion people live without a safe toilet and 892 million people still practise open defecation. To improve this situation, IHE Delft is working on new technologies in faecal sludge management, and keeps working closely...

2019-11-15

Variohm EuroSensor EPS series pressure switches

Variohm EuroSensor: Aimed at industrial pressure switching applications for air, water, hydraulic fluid, other oil-based and liquid mediums, Variohm EuroSensor’s EPS series includes three different environment-matched models, each competitively priced...

2019-11-14

LVDT inductive sensors – wear-free and ...

Waycon: The newly developed inductive sensors in the LV series from WayCon Positionsmesstechnik GmbH cover measuring ranges of up to 25 mm with a linearity of up to 0.1 %. Thanks to the strength of the stainless steel housing with...

2019-11-12

High Precision Triaxial VC MEMS Accelerometer

Dytran Instruments, Inc., a leading manufacturer of piezoelectric and DC MEMS accelerometers, force and pressure transducers and associated electronics presents the series 7503D, a family of high-precision variable capacitance (VC) triaxial...

2019-11-11

Fasterthanever sensor replacement with the ...

Baumer: Switching point, switching window, filter, sonic beam width, output logic: when a new sensor is installed in a machine, a variety of parameters must be adjusted to the application. The parameter server function via the IO-Link...

2019-11-11

Understanding field-of-view

Exergen Global: IRt/c’s are rated optically for their field-of-view by the actual dimensional equations describing their construction. However there are, in practice, some secondary effects which can influence performance, including optical...

2019-11-05

Bread and pastry dough mixing temperature

Exergen Global: Measuring the temperature of bread and pastry dough while mixing is difficult at best with conventional contact thermocouple probes, due to breakage and possible contamination of the food. However, the temperature is quite...

2019-11-04

Precise temperature measurement in industrial ..

Micro-Epsilon: In numerous industrial processes, high precision temperature control is required to achieve high and consistent quality results. Modern infrared temperature measuring devices detect hot objects, parts that are difficult to access...