Machine Vision and The Vision Show
On October 12 this year at the end of a trip to the Northeast I had the pleasure of attending The Vision Show, a trade show that occurs annually in Boston, MA. You can check out my recap of the …
Category: Sensors
Input devices
The Future Of Smart Sensors In Manufacturing
This is a guest post from Keyence, a manufacturer of sensors, gauges and control devices. ********************************************************************************************** We live in an increasingly data-driven world, and the manufacturing and automation industries are no exception. As businesses in these fields strive to keep …
Piezoelectric, Electromagnetic, and Electrostatic Devices: A Comparison
Today’s post is a guest post by SensComp, a manufacturer of ultrasonic sensors. They also provided this cool infographic: Which Is Better? Comparing Piezoelectric, Electrostatic, And Electromagnetic Devices For your electronic sensor application, selecting the right equipment matters. Do you …
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Hands On Training Equipment
This post is both an update on the status of “My Little Factory” and an article on some new fun trainers that I am working on. As you can see in the above picture, all of the hardware for the …
Application: Sensor Choices 103
Today’s post concerns how sensor choices are made in real applications. I have written various posts on sensors in the past, and even participated in a Control Engineering webcast and forum last year on the topic. While I have covered …
Are Things too Complicated?
Today’s post is inspired by an ongoing adventure I have been having in the design and fabrication of My Little Factory. For those who haven’t been following my post since the beginning of this year, a great deal of my …
Super Vision!
As some of you may know, especially those of you who have known me since the 1990’s, machine vision used to be a major part of my career. I could conservatively say I was part of at least 40-50 vision …
Sensors 102: Signal Conditioning
Today’s post is about what goes on between an actual detection device and the input of a control system. In many control applications you don’t need to think about what goes on inside of a device. The signal is converted …
My Little Factory – April 2017
This post is the first in a series I am writing about a project I am working on, hence the “April 2017” designation. As most of my regular readers know, I have spent much of the past several years teaching …
Sensors 101 – Control System Inputs
In today’s post I’m going to ask you to think of sensors in a different way. Most engineers who are specifying equipment think of sensors as discrete or analog devices, proxes or photoelectrics, flow or pressure sensors, thermocouples and the …