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By Thomas R. Cutler The sensor revolution is already underway. Each year, billions of sensors are being deployed in all types of devices and applications. LeddarTech is a company that provides core technology to make highly efficient detection and ranging sensing possible, enabling deployment of profitable high-volume applications such as the ones foreseen in IoT and IoE.

Emrise designs, manufactures and markets electronic devices, sub-systems and equipment for aerospace, defense, industrial and communications markets.

Training program helps to help bridge skills gap for manufacturers in Southern Wisconsin.

The proximity and displacement sensor market was valued at USD 2.93 billion in 2013, growing at a CAGR of 2.8% from 2014 to 2020 to account for USD 3.56 billion in 2020.

Steinbichler Optotechnik is a provider of systems for digitization with optical 3D sensors and in surface inspection on car body and sheet metal parts.

The program has a sensors element library, which allows non-RF and non-software savvy customers to develop wirelessly connected products.

By Edward E. Herceg, Alliance Sensors Group Position feedback sensors for hydraulic or pneumatic cylinders have used one of three traditional technologies: Magnetostrictive, Variable Resistance, and Variable Inductance sensors. Here’s a comparison.

At SPPF in France, a Keyence IM Series measures the dimensions of extrusions without any risk of variability.

The patent-pending inductive technique has already been used over temperature ranges of several hundred degrees Celsius with a accuracy of 1°C and could replace existing contact methods such as thermocouples and infrared.

RESOLUTE encoders provide position feedback and control accuracy in Instron’s ElectroPuls systems for fatigue testing.

The sensors provide curve detection and derailment protection for trains traveling 186 mph.

The Tuning Akademie racing team uses the sensors to measure the distance between the vehicle and the road surface to determine the aerodynamic balance and respective downforce at the from the rear axles.

March U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $399.83 million, up 30.3% from February’s $306.96 million but down 18.7% when compared with March 2014.

Canonaco most recently worked at Omron as General Manager and Vice President of Sales for Canada.

Catalog covers Digital Panel Meters and Control Instrumentation

Sealevel Systems will provide computing and I/O solutions for OEMs using ADLINK's computer-on-module (COM) and Sealevel's custom carrier board technology.

2014 bookings in the process measurement and automation industry grew approximately 14.2% to $3.9 Billion.

DATEL was founded in 1974 and has been owned by Intersil, G.E., C&D Technologies, and most recently by Murata Power Solutions.

ANSI/NEMA WC 57/ICEA S-73-532-2014 may be downloaded or purchased in hard copy for $146 on the NEMA website.

Guide covers sensors for displacement, distance, position and length measurement, 2D/3D laser sensors for dimensional measurements, and more