Long awaited
Heidenhain used SPS 2019 to present EnDat 3. Herbert Reiter, Product Manager Encoders and Electronics at Heidenhain, explains what the enhanced interface for rotary encoders, angle encoders and linear encoders can do.
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read more...From standard to special development
The individualization of products and systems is one of the key topics in the industry. During a press conference at SPS 2019, Pepperl+Fuchs presented a customer-specific sensor solution developed in close cooperation with a shuttle manufacturer.
read more...Sensors with memory
Condition monitoring is one of the current trend topics in the industry. Baumer relies on IO-Link for this purpose and presents inductive sensors with the "most comprehensive diagnostic data on the market" according to the manufacturer.
read more...Radar for the price of ultrasound
Although radar measurement technology offers various advantages compared to ultrasound, it has been significantly more expensive to date. Vega is now launching a new device series on the market that eliminates this previous cost disadvantage.
read more...RFID, image processing and robotics in combination
Medical products used in hospitals must meet the highest quality and hygiene requirements. Accordingly, their production must be closely monitored, as the example of disposable collection systems manufactured by Gindele shows.
read more...Project for sensors without batteries receives award
Dr. Ambuj Varshney was awarded the ABB Research Prize for his research project on the development of a sensor and communication system that is operated without batteries for only the second time.
read more...Sensor and cloud connected end-to-end
Collecting data from production lines centrally and evaluating it online is an initial step towards Industry 4.0. This can be achieved using cloud-supported software based on data from RFID sensors.
read more...Detect objects in 3D
Pepperl+Fuchs presents switching and measuring LiDAR sensors based on 'Pulse Ranging Technology (PRT)': One of these is the R2300 3D multi-layer scanner (image) for collision avoidance, navigation support and object detection.
read more...Application deadline started
The AMA Association for Sensors and Measurement (AMA) is calling on researchers and developers to submit innovative projects and product ideas in the field of sensor and measurement technology by January 29, 2020. The AMA Innovation Award is endowed with prize money of 10,000 euros.
read more...Presentations wanted for new Sensor+Test congress
The AMA Association for Sensors and Measurement opens the Call for Papers for the 'Sensor and Measurement Science International 2020 (SMSI)'. The international congress will take place parallel to the Sensor+Test trade fair in Nuremberg.
read more...TE Connectivity takes over First Sensor
Sensor technology is a market of the future. TE Connectivity also recognizes this and will take over the Berlin-based sensor manufacturer First Sensor.
read more...Conrad Connect opens its IoT platform
Conrad Connect, an IoT project platform for private customers to date, is continuing to develop its platform. Now companies are also benefiting from the ecosystem and from services and benefits developed specifically for B2B partners.
read more...Generation change at Sensopart
On August 1, Thorsten Wanner took over the operational management from his father Dr. Theodor Wanner, who founded the sensor company Sensopart Industriesensorik 25 years ago.
read more...On the way to the smelling machine
Fraunhofer IPA is developing a technology for the automated production of cell-based biosensors. Such sensors could then give machines a sense of smell, for example.
read more...Aiming for the sales billion
The ifm group of companies closed 2018 with an increase in turnover of 8.7%. This means that the automation and digitalization technology provider was able to achieve significant growth for the ninth year in a row.
read more...WEKA Fachmedien Summer Night Party '19
Automation experts above the rooftops of Munich
How much automation is in a Ferris wheel? What are sheep doing on a roof terrace? This was one of the questions asked by guests at the WEKA Fachmedien summer night party at 'München Hoch5' at the beginning of July. The automation experts were not to be missed at the party.
read more...New head of the 'Automation Systems' division
Olaf Ophoff is the new Head of the 'Automation Systems' division at Turck. He succeeds Oliver Merget, who left the automation specialist at the end of March 2019.
read more...VDMA expects 10 % drop in sales
After ten years of growth and a doubling of sales in plastics and rubber machinery, the turning point has been reached: the VDMA is forecasting a drop in sales of at least 10% for 2019.
read more...Goodbye temperature effect - a question of the membrane
In principle, diaphragm seals have a weak point that can have an unfavorable effect on the measurement results - the oil filling. With the help of a special diaphragm, modern devices nevertheless guarantee measurement reliability.
read more...News from the field of sensor technology
In the smart factory of the future, nothing will work without sensor technology as the 'bottom floor'! Sensor technology remains indispensable as the basis of industrial production systems. Computer&AUTOMATION presents current trends in the field of sensors in a series of images.
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