Berndt Opitz, Development Manager at Micro-Sensor, part of the Micro-Epsilon Group, discusses how high performance sensors are helping rail operators to increase train maintenance intervals by using curve detection and derailment protection with on-bogie vibration measurement.
According to a new market research report "Vibration Monitoring Equipment Market by Product (Portable & Non-Portable), Component (Accelerometer, Proximity Probe, & Others), Application (Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Chemical, Metal & Mining, & Others), & Geography - Global Forecast to 2020", published by MarketsandMarkets, the total Vibration Monitoring Equipment Market is expected to reach $1,453.76 Million by 2020, at a CAGR of 6.6%.
Long known as a measurement module producer, Data Translation has expanded its vibration module expertise to a standard 64-channel system. VIBbox is a fully complete portable system with 64 IEPE input channels, 8 stimulus D/A channels, 4 tachometer channels, and a plethora of digital I/O, counter/timer, and measure counter channels.
Precision sensor manufacturer Micro-Epsilon UK has now extended its growing product portfolio to include a range of high performance acceleration, inclination (tilt angle), shock/vibration sensors and other industry-specific MEMS-based (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) sensors.
The Vibratory Probe level sensor market report defines and segments the concerned market with analysis and forecast of revenue. This market was valued $324.06 million in 2013, and is expected to reach $543.36 million by 2019, at a CAGR of 9.1% from 2014 to 2019.
As a report from the Obama administration warns that one in four bridges in the United States needs significant repair or cannot handle automobile traffic, Tufts University engineers are employing wireless sensors and flying robots that could have the potential to help authorities monitor the condition of bridges in real time.
Measurement Specialties, an expert in sensor design and manufacturing, announced that its vibration sensor calibration laboratory in China has achieved ISO 17025 certification from the China National Accreditation Service (CNAS).
Scanning electron microscopes are extremely sensitive and even subtle movements going on around them can affect their accuracy. Vibration control tables already exist to dampen these sometimes barely perceptible disturbances. But now a new kind of isolation platform for the first time integrates sensors and actuators into the mount – resulting in a platform that is more cost-effective and compact than its predecessors. Its designers will be showcasing this new form of isolation at the Hannover Messe (Hall 2, Booth D13) from April 7-11.
Protecting smaller, yet critical items of rotating plant is becoming increasingly important as the focus for industry is to continually improve efficiencies, reduce energy consumption and eliminate downtime. Typically the higher cost of more sophisticated protection systems can be difficult to justify for smaller machinery operating on less critical applications, although the requirement for monitoring still needs to be addressed.
Flexpoint Sensor Systems, Inc., today announced that they have received a purchase order for 500 seat sensors to be used in a brand new safety and security system for fire apparatus. The order is divided into three delivery dates with the first two orders scheduled for delivery in early and mid December with the balance to be delivered in early January, 2014.
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