When selecting MEMS accelerometers for condition-based monitoring, what are some critical, yet commonly overlooked parameters?

Schaeffler’s OPTIME wireless condition monitoring solution saves a leading food and biochemical plant in Southeast Asia 30,000 euros per year by preventing unplanned machine downtime on a variety of rotating equipment.

Employers have a duty of care to protect the health, safety and welfare of employees, so it is vitally important to keep workers’ occupational exposure to harmful gases within permissible limits. For businesses that handle hazardous vapours, failure to comply with this duty can have disastrous consequences, so trustworthy sensing technology is necessary to protect industrial health and safety.

Capacitive displacement sensors are still deemed to be primarily suited to clean, dry environments. However, capacitive sensors can also achieve peak performance in harsh industrial applications, explains Glenn Wedgbrow, Business Development Manager at Micro-Epsilon UK.

NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) ‘Curiosity’ rover first landed on the planet Mars in August 2012. Since that time, the rover has collected a continuous set of environmental measurements that have surprised and delighted the mission’s scientists.

Automated inspection is becoming increasingly demanding. As parts become more complex, the materials used are also changing, with shiny, mixed material, specular, and even transparent surfaces that need to be scanned with micron-level accuracy. More than ever, operators need to be sure that they are achieving not only greater accuracy, but also greater repeatability, to meet their inspection challenges.

Since the pandemic, the shortage of warehouse workers in the UK has been well documented. But recently, the RTITB claimed that digitalisation could be the key to tackling the gap, having found a solution that gets forklift operators into warehouse and logistics operations faster, reducing lost days by 88.7 percent.

There are times when the continuous output of just one accurate, digital measurement can transform a manufacturer’s ability to control a production process.