Featured Articles:
-Lining Technology for Magnetic Flowmeters
-The hot and cold of LVDTs
-The ABCs of using ultrasound to monitor bearings; and more

Resources & Literature:
-2007 Machine Safeguarding Design Guide
-ControlAir releases catalog of Air Pressure Regulators
-A Useful Guide To Temperature Technology Selection; and more

Application Stories:
-Sensing in shallow water
-Litre Meter custom-designs flowmeters to test fuel injectors
-Krohne's Optimass flowmeters help to produce high quality bread products; and more

Featured Training:
-Smart Sensors Systems Design
-Remote Sensing Tutorial
-Designing a 1451.2 Smart Sensor

Product Announcements:
-Canfield releases 9M50 proximity switch for groovy applications
-TURCK introduces FCMI flow meters
-Emerson announces portable CSI XP32 Machinery analyzer
-Emerson introduces Rosemount E-Series mag flowmeters; and more

Company News:
-AW-Lake achieves safety approvals for RT-Ex15 flow monitor
-Meggitt forms Sensing Systems group
-Sadlowski named Chief Executive Officer for Siemens; and more

Application News:
-Under Pressure: Transducers and Testing
-High temperature OPTIMASS measures flow of carbon black
-Banner's Optical Sensor Measures Pontiac Downforce; and more

Featured Events:
-Sensors Expo & Conference Conference
-LXI Consortium meeting held in Beijing
-NIWeek Virtual Instrumentation Conference Aug 7; and more

Lining Technology for Magnetic Flowmeters
Process Industry Informer, May/June 2007
By Yasuo Oonishi, Yokogawa
The accuracy and reliability of magnetic flowmeters have become increasingly higher thanks to advances in lining materials and manufacturing methods.

The hot and cold of LVDTs
Machine Design, May 2007
By Harold Schaevitz, Macro Sensors
Changes in temperature can cause subtle errors in LVDT readings.

The ABCs of using ultrasound to monitor bearings
Plant Services, May 2007
By Roger Earley
Using ultrasound to identify bearing wear in its earliest stages is a valuable tool that avoids costly downtime.

Accurate pressure measurement
Intech, May 2007
By Blair Chalpin, Charles A. Matthews, and Nicholas Sheble
This safety purge system isolates and protects PC-based pressure sensors from steam pressure media while providing high accuracy, serviceability, and automation.

The Sensor Web: A Distributed, Wireless Monitoring System
Sensors, April 2007
By: Kevin A. Delin, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The Sensor Web is a distributed sensing system in which information is globally shared and used by all networked platforms. It's already been deployed long term in different environments and is opening up new avenues for distributed sensing and control.

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2007 Machine Safeguarding Design Guide
This 2-volume Machine Safeguarding Design Guide offered by Omron STI includes over 200 pages of engineering and regulation data. The balance of the 1400 pages includes product specifications and selection guides for the following safety products: Light Curtains, Laser Scanners, Mats, Interlocks, Relays, Network Controllers, Contact Strips, Edges, Two Hand Controls, and Enabling Switches.

ControlAir releases catalog of Air Pressure Regulators
Short Form Catalog includes new products and industry approvals for Precision Air Pressure Regulators, Transducers and Relays.

A Useful Guide To Temperature Technology Selection
Process Industry Informer, May/June 2007
By Ben Pyne, UK Temperature Product Specialist for ABB
Author runs through the options available to engineers who are looking to measure that most fundamental of parameters - temperature.

HEIDENHAIN releases literature on Exposed Linear Encoders  
50-page catalog has an overview of encoder technologies, dimensional and electrical information, mounting tips, and equipment to help obtain the optimal signal quality.

TURCK publishes proximity sensors catalog
The 600-plus page catalog contains TURCK's proximity sensor line, as well as specialty sensors for non-traditional applications.

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Sensing in shallow water
Intech, May 2007
By Rafic Bachnak, et al
Water quality data collection in shallow water areas can be a challenge because it normally requires setting up sensors in several places, plus it is redundant and time consuming. A NASA-funded project led to development of a remotely-controlled, shallow-draft vehicle.

Litre Meter custom-designs flowmeters to test fuel injectors
Process and Control Today, May 2007
By John Houston, Editor
Litre Meter supplied seven customer-built flowmeters to Delphi's automotive division in Spain. The instruments are being used to test a range of petrol and diesel fuel injectors manufactured by the company.

Krohne's Optimass flowmeters help to produce high quality bread products
Process and Control Today, April 2007
By John Houston, Editor
KROHNE's OPTIMASS 1000 Coriolis mass flowmeters were chosen as part of a proportional weighing system built by Croston Engineering Ltd. The instruments accurately measure the amount of palm and rape seed oil added to the recipes.

Corrosion in Real Time
Sensors, March 2007
By: Melanie Martella
A natural gas plant had a history of flow-enhanced rapid corrosion, as discovered by an annual ultrasonic scan. To understand exactly how quickly the corrosion was progressing during normal operations, the plant installed fiber-optic sensors from FOX-TEK on the outside surface of the reducer.

Fire sprinkler systems get safety torque
Process and Control Today, April 2007
By John Houston, Editor
Replacing a torque meter with a torque sensor has revolutionised the validating process for Fireset sprinkler systems built by Grundfos Pumps Ltd. in Leighton Buzzard.

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Smart Sensors Systems Design
Online engineering course describes modern developments and design trends in the field of smart sensors systems. The course will focus on the novel measuring methods and techniques to build full intelligent sensor systems, digital sensors, data acquisition and measuring systems with self-adaptation and self-identification possibilities.

Remote Sensing Tutorial
On line NASA tutorial explains what you can learn from sensors on spacecraft that look inward at the Earth and outward at the planets, the galaxies and, going back in time, the cosmos.

Designing a 1451.2 Smart Sensor
Brian O'Mara, Analog Devices Ireland
This on-line lecture relates the experience of Analog Devices in understanding the background and concepts behind 1451 and their subsequent development of a 2 channel 1451.2 compliant transducer.

IEEE Standard 1451.4-2004 Tutorials
On-line tutorials cover: What is 1451.4; An Overview of TEDS; The manufacturer ID and its use; The device URN: Who needs it?; Why 1451.4 uses templates; The template description language; and Guidelines for the implementation of 1451.4.

IEEE Sensors Council Tutorials
Topics cover Sensor Phenomena and Characterization; Sensor Signal Processing and Array Sensor Fusion; Smart Sensors Systems Design; Modeling of Electromechanical Sensors and Actuators; Chemical and Biological Sensors; Optoelectronic and Photonic Sensors; Mass Sensitive Devices; Magnetic Sensors; and more.

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AW-Lake achieves safety approvals for RT-Ex15 flow monitor  -  05/15/07
CSA and INMETRO approved the RT-Ex15 meter-mounted flow monitor for use in Class I/Div 1 hazardous areas.

Meggitt forms Sensing Systems group  -  05/10/07
The division was formed by merging Endevco, Meggitt Aerospace Systems and Meggitt Electronics groups into a single entity.

Sadlowski named Chief Executive Officer for Siemens  -  05/03/07
Siemens appointed Dennis Sadlowski President and CEO, succeeding Aubert Martin, who is retiring.

Moore Industries Promotes Tina Lockhart to Director of Engineering  -  05/02/07
Lockhart has more than 20 years of R&D experience and more than 10 years in management. Previously, Lockhart was a Program Manager at BAE Systems, where she was responsible for projects based on MEMS technology with real time embedded systems.

Flow Research Study predicts $1 Billion Flowmeter Market  -  04/12/07
The study, "The World Market for Differential Pressure (DP) Flowmeters and Primary Elements," says the worldwide DP flowmeter market totaled $996 million in 2006, and will exceed one billion dollars in 2007.

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Under Pressure: Transducers and Testing
Chem.info, June 2007
By Setra Systems
Heat Transfer Products in East Freetown, MA, manufactures water tanks and water heating appliances. They used sensors from Setra in the testing stage, during which each boiler would be checked for its ability to perform — literally — under pressure.

High temperature OPTIMASS measures flow of carbon black
Process and Control Today, May 2007
By John Houston, Editor
KROHNE supplied five high temperature OPTIMASS 9000 Coriolis mass flowmeters to measure the flow of carbon black at a production plant in Europe.

Banner's Optical Sensor Measures Pontiac Downforce
Design News, April 2007
By Terry Costlow, Contributing Editor
Banner Engineering's racing Pontiac GXP.R puts a customized Banner long-range optical sensor on each corner of the car's front end to measure its downforce, the downward pressure that makes the car hug the track.

Torque sensor from Sensor Technology replaces slip rings in aircraft  -  05/03/07
TorqSense transducer uses a RF link to constantly monitor shaft torque in the UK's Nimrod reconnaissance and attack aircraft.

ATI supplies dissolved ozone monitor to Bristol Water  -  04/30/07
Bristol uses ATI's Q45H/64 Dissolved Ozone Analyzer for on-line monitoring and control of ozone levels in drinking water.

Sensors Expo & Conference
June 11-13, 2007 Rosemont, Illinois
Sensors Expo & Conference is the only industry event in North America exclusively focusing on sensors and sensor-integrated systems. The expo hall brings together the largest showcase of sensing technologies and systems for attendees to evaluate and make informed decisions.

LXI Consortium meeting held in Beijing
June 19-21, 2007 Beijing, China
The LXI Consortium's General Meeting will be held in Beijing, China, June 19-21, 2007, the first General Meeting to be held in Asia.

NIWeek Virtual Instrumentation Conference Aug 7
August 7-9, 2007 Austin, Texas
Three days of interactive technical sessions, targeted forums, exhibitions and hands-on workshops on the latest developments for design, automation, manufacturing and test.

National Manufacturing Week
September 24-27, Rosemont, IL
Four shows in one: Design Engineering, Enterprise IT, Plant Engineering & Maintenance, and Industrial Automation.

Rockwell Automation Fair to be held in Chicago
November 13-15, 2007 Chicago, Illinois
Rockwell Automation will host the 16th annual Automation Fair, a free forum with more than 100 exhibitors and 10,000 attendees from around world.

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