Sensors Features

Getting smart with sensors – a practical guide

Industry 4.0, Smart Factories and Smart Sensors – they are the latest buzz and, by now, most people have their own ideas about what they mean.

World’s largest mirror telescope relies on nanometer accuracy inductive sensors

The European Southern Observatory based in Garching, Germany, is relying on high precision displacement measurement systems from Micro-Epsilon for a project to build the world’s largest mirror telescope in Chile, which also involves French cooperation partner Fogale.

Colour and contrast sensors – tools for effective quality control

Subjectivity has no place in a modern manufacturing plant. High-volume production needs effective in-process quality control for consistent, defect-free throughput.

Innovative solution for moisture sensing in automobile production

Working in close co-operation with a leading car manufacturer, Turck has designed a fully automated solution for moisture sensing based on RFID.

More Sensors Features Features

Digital signal conditioner technology easily adapts to customer measuring conditions(02/02/2017)

More industries and manufacturers are requiring sensors for condition monitoring in their machines or processes.
3D area sensor increases robot productivity(02/02/2017)

Fanuc 3D area sensors enable robots to recognise and pick up randomly positioned objects.
Improving our roads with sensors(07/10/2016)

Roads are an extremely important part of our lives’ infrastructure. Without them we couldn’t easily travel from A to B, be that for work, pleasure or to keep food in our supermarkets and the wheels of industry turning.
Current transducers go digital(07/10/2016)

A couple of years ago, LEM’s Sales & Marketing observed the first signs of a technological turnaround: some of the leading OEMs in the servo-drives and robot industry were thinking of abandoning analogue interfaces on their systems.
Changing maintenance of products from an art into a science(07/10/2016)

Industry 4.0 is creating many engineering challenges for a variety of industries. When I spoke with Matthew Aldridge, managing director of igus, he explained how the company is improving upon its current technologies to create smart plastics specifically for Industry 4.0.