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 ...

Process sensor technology—the mainstay instrumentation that monitors temperature, pressure and flow levels—has remained fairly steady over the years against a backdrop of accelerating digital ...

As manufacturing technology moves toward more computerized automation, statistical process control (SPC) techniques must adapt to keep pace with the new environment and take advantage of the ...

Using factory automation to improve overall efficiency is a primary focus in today’s manufacturing industry. Organizations are shifting in this direction not only because it increases their bottom ...

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

I like to think of engineers as doctors of the electronics world. Let me explain: Think about the last time an optometrist examined your “human sensors.” Did they prescribe glasses to compensate for ...

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In this chapter, I will present a few useful “cookbook” applications for real-time control circuits designed to perform some specific low-level task and interface with a master controller for ...

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 ...

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 ...

A growing chorus of experts warns that process sensors — long excluded from cybersecurity standards due to their non-routable protocols — pose a critical risk to the electric grid as FERC and NERC ...