Sensors and Transducers

Mouser Electronics, Inc., the authorized global distributor with the newest semiconductors and electronic components, announces new global distribution agreements with Amphenol companies Amphenol PCB Piezotronics and The Modal Shop, further bolstering its Amphenol sensor lineup for customers around the world. Mouser now offers more than 51,000 products from 44 Amphenol divisions. Amphenol PCB Piezotronics manufactures …

Prefabrication is increasingly common in civil engineering, with for example bridges being constructed from prefabricated bridge elements lifted by mobile cranes onto support columns. To adjust the height of the bridge beams for assembly, heavy-duty hydraulic cylinder jacks support the ends of each beam. Each jack has a metal bracket …

SignalFire Wireless Telemetry received the approval from Mexico’s Federal Telecommunication Institute (Instituto Federal De Telecomunicaciones) for the use in the country of its 900 MHz wireless products. SignalFire’s radio transmitters easily adapt to a variety of sensor to make measurement clusters across vast geographic distances. The platform is easy-to-use, flexible …

Industry 4.0 technologies have transformed processes across the manufacturing value chain for the better but ensuring worker safety in an increasingly more complex environment has taken on a different form, with new considerations. Here, Richard Mount, Director of Sales at ASIC design and supply company Swindon Silicon Systems, explains how …

Automotive manufacturing relies extensively on automation and hence the reliability of Contrinex’s uniquely robust and high-performance ‘700 Series’  inductive sensors. One such example is the assembly of engines, where cylinder heads are transferred for mounting on the engine. A robot lifts the workpiece off its original carrier and places it …

SensoPart’s range of VISOR sensors now allows complex linking of detection results – previously reserved to much more expensive image processing systems or sophisticated PLC applications. These advanced possibilities for processing results are part of a free software upgrade. Designed as cost-effective and versatile solutions, vision sensors can today be …

Voting is now open for the 2022 Instrumentation Excellence Awards so head over  to https://instrumentationawards.co.uk/vote/ to make your selection. The nominations for the Sensor Product of the Year category are as follows: ABB Measurement & Analytics, ADS420 dissolved oxygen sensor   Baumer, PFMH hygienic pressure transmitters   ESI Technology Limited, The …

element14, an Avnet Community, recently launched the Experimenting with Gesture Sensors Design Challenge. Eight successful applicants who propose a project with the best use of gesture sensing technology will receive an evaluation kit by Maxim Integrated free of charge to experiment, test, or build a project. With gesture recognition control …

No matter what industry or what prevention measures are in place, some scrap is unavoidable. But there is a huge difference between the small amounts of scrap inevitable in everyday processes and the avoidable scrap that comes from a bad run. There are many possible causes, but one of the …

A pioneering project, which aims to develop advanced sensors for use in robotic systems, could transform prosthetics and robotic limbs. The research project – led by University of the West of Scotland (UWS), Integrated Graphene Ltd, and supported by the Scottish Research Partnership in Engineering (SRPe) and the National Manufacturing …