With more than 30 years' experience in the industry, Micro-Epsilon isn't just a manufacturer of sensors. Micro-Epsilon products are truly innovative and the company understands the importance of providing complete solutions for its customers. The focus is on selling technical advantage to its clients. The company is renowned for its expertise in consulting, development and application of industrial sensors to complex, customer-specific solutions for measurement, inspection and automation. The company develops and manufactures sensors and sensor systems that measure displacement, distance, position, vibration, dimensions and thickness, using both contact and non-contact techniques, including 2D/3D laser optical, confocal chromatic, eddy current, capacitive, inductive, draw-wire, time-of-flight and non-contact infra-red thermometers.
Micro-Epsilon's website includes an abundance of technical information, as well as a new application-focused structure that makes it easier for engineers to locate the sensor or measurement solution they require. The website is targeted at design engineers, production engineers, quality and inspection engineers, scientists, lab technicians and plant/maintenance engineers.
The site is 'application-led' rather than 'product-led'. Rather than placing lists of different sensor products in front of engineers, the website encourages users to look for solutions to their specific application problems.
The applications area of the site contains sensor systems for bending, concentricity, diameter, dimension, displacement, positioning, oscillation, gap, revolution, stroke and thickness measurement. Actual examples of applications in each of these areas is provided, along with the relevant technical data sheet and application diagrams.
Details of specific customer applications are provided on the site. Examples include monitoring the vacuum integrity of cans, jars and bottles; turbocharger speed sensing; monitoring of the commutators in electric motors; thickness measurement of yarn, rubber film, foils and battery separators; flatness measurement in rolling mills; oil film thickness measurement in internal combustion engines; calibrating robot axes; measuring clutch wear in racing cars; active damping of liquid-cooled centrifuges; lift height measurement in forklift trucks; monitoring the clamping of tools; and the measurement of axial deformation of brake disc friction rings.