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27 June 2024
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Recognised by Sport Positive as the Premier League’s greenest club for four years running, Tottenham Hotspur's stadium has sustainability at its heart. Charlotte Stonestreet visited the facility to find out about the role that the Club's relationship with Schneider Electric has to play in this achievement
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18 April 2024
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From circuit board assembly to healthcare applications, the ability of cobots to co-exist safely with humans on the same fenceless factory floor comes with its own stringent safety requirements. Fabrizio Petris explores the sensing technologies enabling such applications
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29 February 2024
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Everybody is talking about digitalisation – and sometimes it is the simplest applications that demonstrate its power to transform. By opening a window to locate and calculate compressed air energy wastage in real time, production teams are saving up to 30% of their electricity costs, reports Charlie Walker
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02 March 2023
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Modern optical sensors such as laser triangulation sensors, laser scanners and confocal sensors are particularly suitable for use in coordinate measuring machines, says Glenn Wedgbrow
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24 October 2022
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Operating personnel at all levels are gaining revealing, and sometimes unexpected, insights into the health of machinery by viewing and interpreting visual representations of data from sensors, writes David Hannaby
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21 October 2022
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BASF Leuna uses a colorSENSOR CFO200 non-contact colour recognition sensor from Micro-Epsilon to detect fluctuating colour values of plastic pellets on its extruder line
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01 March 2022
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The food industry presents challenging environments for sensors and, in addition, users’ expectations of sensor technology are continually increasing. This means the future belongs to smart sensors that deliver substantial added value, says Andy Walker
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01 March 2022
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The dairy processing industry treads a thin line between food safety and equipment efficiency – and sensors are now playing an increasingly important role
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26 February 2021
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Recent developments in Industry 4.0 and the impact of Covid-19 have quickened the pace of adoption in industrial automation, with greater networking and higher sensor numbers facilitating ever-closer process monitoring. However, these trends do not necessarily need to lead to greater system complexity in signal acquisition, connection technology and cabling report Stefan Schumacher and Dominik Grzesiak
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08 February 2021
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IN CONTRAST to conventional technology, smart sensors can do more than just reliably monitor and send measurement values; they also provide relevant data that can be used to set process optimisation and efficiency gains in motion, asserts Peter Dietrich
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01 July 2020
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Tracking down and fixing leaks can be hit and miss; for some it's only a matter of 'listen, look and detect'. Even with a modern energy management system, a maintenance team may only survey the plant every three or six months. In the meantime, energy waste continues imperceptibly, observes Darren Pratt
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03 March 2020
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Water supply systems need to be managed professionally if sufficient pressure is to be maintained and damage caused by defective components is to be prevented. Continuous maintenance and the hydraulic analysis of current or potential future problems are effective management instruments in this regard.
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16 April 2019
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Design engineers are being challenged to cram more into ever-shrinking design space. Printed force sensor technologies – like FlexiForce sensors – are an attractive option to integrate force-feedback capabilities into their devices
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04 April 2019
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Sensing and instrumentation specialist Baumer has helped food manufacturer Homann in achieving its goal of maximising process optimisation in production processes, using of CleverLevel, CombiPress and CombiLyz sensors
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19 February 2019
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Venturing into the great outdoors has always been a frontier too far when it comes to agreeing an internationally-recognised Technical Standard for safety solutions that use sensors and sensor systems to detect people in the open air, writes Dr Martin Kidman
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11 December 2018
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Today’s smart wireless communication devices are increasingly being used in a wide variety of industrial applications where the potential productivity gains are huge, writes Martin Walder, VP Schneider Electric Industry
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23 August 2016
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Do you know an RTD from an ICTD, and when you should use one or the other? Opto 22’s short primer provides valuable guidance on the primary types of sensors used for temperature monitoring and data acquisition
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14 December 2015
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SICK has launched its first ‘plug-and-play’ 3D vision sensor in the UK, the TriSpector 1000, delivering real-time 3D quality inspection in a self-contained unit that is simple to install and use
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25 August 2015
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Western society’s love affair with sourcing and enjoying food at any time of year, from any part of the globe, has transformed the food processing and packaging industries over past decades, and sensors can play a vital role as this article by Glynn Edwards, SICK UK’s FMCG segment manager, outlines
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27 April 2015
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Speed and cleanliness are determining factors in the food and beverage industry. Short cycle times and minimum machine and plant downtimes are of particular importance, while hygiene requirements must not be ignored – strict regulations and certifications are necessary in order to create high-quality end products
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