Launching the remarkable Banner Engineering Q3X and Q4X laser sensor ranges to the UK market, Turck Banner's Ian Manning takes a closer look at the differences between LED and laser based object and distance sensing technologies.
Stanford engineers have created a plastic skin-like material that can detect pressure and deliver a Morse code-like signal directly to a living brain cell.
Lee Aiken describes a project to maximise the operational efficiencies of remote mixed-fuel tank access and contents management using advanced sensor technologies.
The benefits of collaboration between industry and academia are once again being proven, this time in the area of ultrasonic flow meters. Yifei Zhang examines the results of recent tests demonstrating the suitability of new generation materials for key applications in utility and industrial flow measurement.
Once in a while a custom development for one particular customer turns out to be just what many others also want – they just didn’t know it until they saw it. This is exactly what the Mitutoyo Gauging Technology (MGT) division found after developing a successful system for batch measurement of small parts for an orthopaedic equipment manufacturer.