Manufacturers put process sensors to work for proactive maintenance and inventory monitoring applications. Process sensor technology—the mainstay instrumentation that monitors temperature, pressure ...

Intelligent instruments, along with digital networking technology optimized for typical machine applications, are bringing front-line features to discrete manufacturing applications. A Murrelektronik ...

In the injection molding of plastics, in-mold sensors, as part of a variety of process control packages, have been around for decades. But comparatively recently, similar technology has begun to make ...

Using flow sensors, operators can monitor compressed-air use to help identify problems early and provides data for improving energy efficiency. Compressed air is used throughout the pharmaceutical ...

Before you install a wireless sensor network, though, take note of 10 factors that will affect your data collection process. Using factory automation to improve overall efficiency is a primary focus ...

Precision grinding of bearing rings and rollers is a well established process, one that has been applied, tested, and analyzed over many years. Until recently, the common view among many grinding ...

German sensor company Sick has announced a pair of colour sensors. “The newly-developed flagship, CSS, leads the way with the ability to distinguish even the slightest nuances in shade,” according to ...

As the industry adopts in-line monitoring and analytics, integrated AI-linked sensors may soon enable model-based process controls.

Industry 4.0 initially focused on discrete manufacturing, and now there is a growing focus on applying Industry 4.0 concepts to process automation. The same concepts are being applied to process ...

Biopharma needs better sensors to realize the full benefits of data driven manufacturing, according to the director of the soon to be expanded Jefferson Institute for Bioprocessing. In March, Thomas ...

Our process is one of the most advanced sub micron processes for analogue devices and one of the smallest geometries used to manufacture sensors." Apart from building sensors themselves, MagnaChip is ...

Lithuania, have developed new organic compounds that act as highly sensitive oxygen sensors. These sensors can accurately ...