Articles Tagged with ''sensors''

Sensors can help ensure that automated processes are working correctly, provide feedback on production and improve quality control efforts. But food processors have to be sure that they understand what they need to do to get the most out of their sensing technology.

When a bakery’s cake frosting started slumping, operations employed a wireless mesh sensor network to tackle the icing problems.

Surgital has been packaging its ravioli products with a Schubert system since 2005. The company is steadily growing and needed a new packaging machine to extend its capacity.

The Hawk OptioLaser S200 distance/level sensor can be used for blocked chute detection, barrier detection, machine detection, stockpile monitoring and point level measurement.

The Binmaster NCR-80 level radar is an 80GHz radar with a focused beam angle of 4°.

A near-infrared (or NIR) handheld moisture meter can help locate a problem in your process without physically touching your product.

Based on the calorimetric measurement principle, Baumer FlexFlow flow and temperature sensors have IO-Link and either 2 switching outputs or 1 switching and 1 analog output, plus a stainless steel housing with integrated electronics and an evaluation unit.

Kevin Fitzgerald, a global solutions architect and Schneider Electric Fellow and representative of OPAF, answers questions on IIoT and the OPAF’s role in IIoT technologies.

The future of US manufacturing was the center of discussion at Forcam's Smart Factory Symposium hosted at the Digital Manufacturing Design Innovation Institute in Chicago.

ABB Jokab Eden safety sensors have a solid-state, board-level design with RFID technology.