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IR camera with rugged accessory for glass industry

IR camera with rugged accessory for glass ...

Optris GmbH: In 2014 and 2016, Optris brought two special infrared cameras for the glass industry – the PI 450 G7 and the PI 640 G7 – to the market. In order to meet the industry-specific requirements, an innovative laminar air purge...

2019-01-02
Robustness and Precision Beyond the Standard

Robustness and Precision Beyond the Standard

Baumer: What is the most efficient way to acquire rotation angles? It’s the Baumer magnetic absolute encoder series EAM580/360. Their precision is unrivalled; no product of another brand can compete in terms of robustness and longevity at...

2018-12-21
Free Online Calculator for 1800 Fluids

Free Online Calculator for 1800 Fluids

Bronkhorst High-Tech BV, the Netherlands, has expanded its database of gas and liquid properties with 1000 fluids to over 1800 fluids. This comprehensive database, called FLUIDAT®, is used by the company for configuration and extremely...

2018-12-19
The new optical miniature sensors O200 from Baumer

The new optical miniature sensors O200 from ...

Baumer: The new O200 sensors from Baumer considerably raise the performance bar for optical miniature sensors.  Economical in operation and featuring an impressive  function variety in a standardized miniature housing, these sensors...

2018-12-17
Measuring the bearing gap in wind turbines

Measuring the bearing gap in wind turbines

Micro-Epsilon: In wind turbines, the bearing gap is very important because the better the sliding properties, the higher the plant effectiveness and service life. The bearing gap between the bearing surface and the drive shaft is reliably...

2018-12-17
Monitoring the clamping position in machine tools

Monitoring the clamping position in machine ...

Micro-Epsilon: Monitoring the clamping position in machine tools is an extremely important and critical measurement task. In order to avoid incorrect machining and the high resulting costs, the position of the tool must be detected. Here, the...

2018-12-17
Laser scanner software now also enables gap measurements

Laser scanner software now also enables gap ...

Micro-Epsilon: The latest Configuration Tools 6.0 software combines uniformity with increased functionality and improved ease of use. The software is now available for scanCONTROL sensors and gapCONTROL sensors and therefore arrives as a joint...

2018-12-14
2D/3D Laser Scanners RF627 Series

2D/3D Laser Scanners RF627 Series

RIFTEK: RF627 Series of Laser Scanners consists of 8 models with the Measuring Ranges from 10 to 250 mm, Linearity ±0.05% of F.S. and Measuring Range 485, 938, 6800 profiles/s. They are compact, high-precision and high-speed scanners with...

2018-12-13
Case Study: Exergen’s non-contact sensors preventing overheating of the air heater element used in flanged inline heaters

Case Study: Exergen’s non-contact sensors ...

Exergen Global: Challenge: A large electric air heating solutions company needed a very fast thermal management solution to prevent overheating of the air heater element used in its flanged inline heaters. The heaters are employed in industrial...

2018-12-13
PCB Piezotronics, Inc. Launches Miniature ICP Teardrop Accelerometer

PCB Piezotronics, Inc. Launches Miniature ICP ..

PCB Piezotronics, a wholly owned subsidiary of MTS Systems Corporation (NASDAQ: MTSC), has released its smallest ICP teardrop accelerometer with a Transducer Electronic Data Sheet (TEDS) - Model 352A59. This single axis accelerometer was developed...

2018-12-12
New Tapped Base Miniature Triaxial Accelerometer Launched

New Tapped Base Miniature Triaxial Accelerometer

DJB Instruments is pleased to announce the launch of a new version of their popular miniature triaxial accelerometer, the AT/10 IEPE type and AT/01 charge type. These low mass miniature triaxials have up till now been limited to adhesive mount...

2018-12-07
Dynamic strain gauges for structural monitoring

Dynamic strain gauges for structural monitoring

ETLG Inertial Aerosystems announce a range of strain gauges designed for Asphalt and Concrete structures monitoring. The gauges utilise four active elements of a Wheatstone bridge circuit which compensates for temperature change and customer...

2018-12-06
AlphaProx inductive distance sensors with IO-Link interface

AlphaProx inductive distance sensors with IO-...

Baumer: The new distance measuring inductive sensors AlphaProx with IO-Link interface from Baumer offer more than precise measurement technology. In addition to micrometer-precise distance values, two switching points, counter values, switching...

2018-12-06
New ultrasonic sensors from Baumer outperform with robust housings and IO-Link

New ultrasonic sensors from Baumer outperform ..

Baumer: Quality meets economy – with the new product families U500 and UR18 Baumer sets the highest standards in ultrasonic sensor technology. The sensors for distance measurement and object detection are characterized by a particularly...

2018-12-03
Eight things you should absolutely know about  MSR-Electronic gas detectors

Eight things you should absolutely know about ..

MSR-Electronic: There is a lot to tell about the company and its products. In the following, however, MSR-Electronic GmbH summarizes the most important facts: 1. Quality: Gas sensors, controllers and warning devices from MSR-Electronic are...

2018-12-03
LX series 10 GigE cameras with liquid lens support and new functions

LX series 10 GigE cameras with liquid lens ...

Baumer: LX series cameras with 10 GigE enable the control of autofocus liquid lenses for instant and flexible focusing at varying working distances or object heights. Combined with advanced features like shading correction and IEEE 1588 capability, they...

2018-11-30
Sierra’s Big-3™ Voted Top Flow Measurement Innovation

Sierra’s Big-3™ Voted Top Flow Measurement ...

Sierra Instruments: Sierra is pleased to announce its Big-3™ One Complete Flow Energy Solution with three advanced technologies to cover all air, gas, water and steam applications has been voted one of the most innovative flow measurement...

2018-11-29
Specially designed housing accessories for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries

Specially designed housing accessories for ...

Baumer: With the specially developed IP 65/67 and IP 69K housing accessories, Baumer CX.I cameras can now be used to cover applications in the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries, which set high standards regarding cleaning media or surface...

2018-11-29
The world’s smallest optical distance sensor

The world’s smallest optical distance sensor

SensoPart: This sensor fits into even the tiniest of gaps:  No bigger than a sugar cube, the laser distance sensor FT 10-RLA from SensoPart is ideally suited to challenging measuring tasks, for example in semi-conductor assembly or robotics...

2018-11-27
Linear Position Sensors Shock-Proof up to 200 g

Linear Position Sensors Shock-Proof up to 200 g

Turck has updated its contactless Li Q25 positioning systems and has now added new Extended variants to the program. The inductive measuring principle offers improved shock resistance and sampling rate compared to alternative measuring...

2018-11-21
Application Note Dual redundant angle position sensing for safety critical tasks

Application Note Dual redundant angle ...

Variohm EuroSensor: Dynali’s ultralight helicopter includes Variohm Euro XPD series Hall Effect angle sensors. The Dynali Helicopter Company, based in Thines - Belgium, designs and manufactures the H3 EasyFlyer Sport ultralight helicopter....

2018-11-20
High-speed image processing with 8 GB internal image memory

High-speed image processing with 8 GB ...

Baumer: The Baumer QX series 10 GigE cameras feature 8 GB internal image memory and extended functionalities. Process monitoring applications benefit from inspection times increased by a factor of 4 as well as flexible usage of the memory. The new function...

2018-11-19
Integrated Pressure Transducer (IPT)

Integrated Pressure Transducer (IPT)

ETLG Inertial Aerosystems:The Integrated Pressure Transducer (IPT) provides high accuracy pressure data in an industry standard SPI digital format. Manufactured by Honeywell Aerospace, the core of the IPT is a proven Honeywell silicon...

2018-11-19
Major Expansion of Ultrasonic Sensors Portfolio

Major Expansion of Ultrasonic Sensors Portfolio

Turck is expanding its RU ultrasonic sensor family with ten miniature ultrasonic sensors in M8 and M12 designs. In line with the RU series, the new M12 sensors are provided with an analog output and also a switching output with a switch range that...

2018-11-16
Bimetal thermometers qualified in accordance with both ASME and EN

Bimetal thermometers qualified in accordance ...

WIKA has further developed its standard bimetal thermometers for global application in the process industry. The model TG53 conforms to the ASME B40.200 standard and is manufactured for the inch unit of measure. The model TG54 has been qualified...

2018-11-13
eddylab‘s new LVDT digital controller for inductive transducers

eddylab‘s new LVDT digital controller for ...

Eddylab: As specialist in distance and position measurement technology eddylab GmbH will be presenting the new LVDT digital controller for the first time at the SPS IPC drives 2018 in Nuremberg. The inductive Transducers LVDT (linear variable...

2018-11-12
Factor 1 Sensors in a Plastic Threaded Barrel

Factor 1 Sensors in a Plastic Threaded Barrel

Turck: Inductive sensors in a plastic threaded barrel design and an antivalent output have been added to Turck's uprox series of factor 1 sensors that offer the same large switching distance to all metals. The new sensors combine the benefits of a...

2018-11-09
SIL rated Level Switch, Density and Level Gauge

SIL rated Level Switch, Density and Level Gauge

BERTHOLD Technologies: The CrystalSENS LB 480 from Berthold Technologies can be used as a radiometric level switch system in tanks, and chemical reactors. To maintain the measurement stability and to monitor the detector functionality, the unique...

2018-11-07
Non ITAR GNSS RTK INS

Non ITAR GNSS RTK INS

ETLG Inertial Aerosystems: The HGuide n580 is a small, light-weight, self-contained, all-attitude Inertial/GNSS Navigator which can be used in a wide variety of non-ITAR platforms, applications and industries where continuous navigation...

2018-11-05

Exergen Global's sensors help Smission- ...

Exergen Global announced that its Micro IRt/c-HB infrared non-contact sensors are being used to measure blood product temperatures in the ThermaCor® 1200 Rapid Thermal Infuser designed and developed by Smisson-Cartledge Biomedical, LLC and...

2018-11-02
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