
Smart condition monitoring with IIoT sensors
Siemens is launching Sitrans SCM IQ, a new Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solution for smart condition monitoring. It can be used to detect and prevent potential malfunctions at an early stage.

Siemens is launching Sitrans SCM IQ, a new Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solution for smart condition monitoring. It can be used to detect and prevent potential malfunctions at an early stage.
The requirements for an industrial sensor system used for condition monitoring tasks are changing dynamically. In addition to battery operation, OTA updates and secure end-to-end communication, AI-based edge data analyses are becoming increasingly important.

Hexagon, a provider of sensors, software and autonomous solutions, has acquired CADLM. The company is considered a pioneer in the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning in computer-aided engineering (CAE).

The triaxial ICP sensor model 356A06 from Synotech offers a measuring range of 1000 g with a sensitivity of 5 mV/g and, according to the supplier, a wide frequency range for many types of vibration tests.

Hannover Messe Digital Edition 2021
Darmstadt-based company core sensing has won this year's Hermes Startup Award at the Hannover Messe Digital Edition.

In order to develop material combinations such as plastic-metal systems with better friction behavior, Kaiserslautern researchers have developed a system that automatically detects wear phases and analyzes data directly.

The esf-1 label sensor from Microsonic is equipped with a pnp switching output and a push-pull switching output with IO-Link version 1.1.

With the Wilsen.sonic.level, Pepperl+Fuchs presents an ultrasonic level sensor that can be used to determine filling heights and filling and level levels.

E²MS service provider Turck duotec has become a strategic investor in the start-up Quantum Technologies from Leipzig. The necessary contracts were signed at the beginning of March 2021.

NCTE, specialist for non-contact torque sensors, is entering into a cooperation with the University of Applied Management (HAM) from the summer semester 2021.

Draw-wire sensors in the Wiresensor WPS-K100 series from Micro-Epsilon measure paths and distances in industrial environments. Two new models have measuring ranges of 1500 and 2500 mm.

The IO-Link-capable radar sensors of the newly developed LRS series complement Turck's portfolio for level measurement in the range from 0.35 to 10 m.
One of the 'magic formulas' in the Industrial Internet is 'continuous information flow'. However, the installed base of production cannot be 'converted' as easily as business software. Instead, the migration must integrate different components.

Thanks to their housing depth of just 6 mm and a housing diameter of 16.4 mm, the hollow-shaft conductive plastic potentiometers in the 'MHP16' series from Megatron are particularly suitable as position indicators in motor valves and actuators.

The 'OM20' and 'OM30' laser distance sensor families with IO-Link from Baumer can be used flexibly in many applications thanks to their measurement performance and compact design.
In order to meet the challenges of modern agriculture with cost-effective and intelligent electronic solutions, researchers at Fraunhofer IZM are working with partners to combine smart system integration with sensor technology - Agriculture 4.0.

Sensirion Holding, provider of gas and liquid flow and environmental sensors, completes the acquisition of Qmicro, an OEM provider of miniaturized gas analysis technologies.

In order to meet demand on the Asian markets, Leuze is currently building a new plant in Melaka, Malaysia, with production scheduled for the first quarter of 2022.

Sensors / measurement technology
Real, virtual and hybrid - this was the motto under which Sensor+Test was to take place in Nuremberg from May 4 to 6, 2021. It has now been decided to hold the trade fair entirely as a digital event instead.

Posital launches miniaturized 22 mm multiturn kit encoders for small and micro drives. Until now, small and micro motors were at best equipped with single-turn or incremental encoders.