SENSORS & SENSING SYSTEMS
Living in a Clear Material World Is Easy With New SICK TranspaTect
Fast device ordering from Endress+Hauser
instruments and system components, Endress+Hauser has launched E-direct. The new website is an easy way to access those everyday devices used in straightforward applications. All E- direct products have a short lead time so you’re guaranteed to receive your order in two to five days. E-direct covers Endress+Hauser’s range of high
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quality, basic instruments for the monitoring and control of liquid and solids level, flow, temperature and pressure along with field and panel-mounted system components and a selection of simple analysis packages. Prices have been set to offer you just the features you need at the most cost-effective rate – and all products are offered with tiered discount levels for higher volume purchases. All the necessary technical information such as supply voltages, outputs and performance characteristics is readily available too.
Endress+Hauser Ltd Tel: 0161 286 5050 Web:
www.e-direct.endress.com
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LEAR packaging and films are dream materials for food and FMCG manufacturers,
but ever-more transparent and reflective packaging can pose nightmares for the production engineers tasked with detecting them accurately and reliably with optical sensors.
Now, thanks some innovative rethinking of sensor technology by SICK, the
TranspaTect
photoelectric distance sensor achieves the most advanced clear material detection to date without the need for a reflector.
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performance and detection accuracy promise better production efficiency,
TranspaTect’s high optical cost-savings, and
quick and easy commissioning for packaging and bottling processes such as picking, placing, labelling and printing.
“Transparent and semi-transparent materials now pose no problem,” Phil Dyas, Sick UK industrial sensor specialist. “The sensor is also
SICK Tel: 01727 831121 TEST & MEASUREMENT
New range of Hipot and Insulation Resistance testers
elonic Instruments have introduced a new range of Hipot (Flash) and Insulation Resistance testers manufactured by Japan based Kikusui. Designated the TOS5300 the three models in the range are designed for use in Withstanding Voltage and Insulation Resistance testing to help ensure the safety of Electrical / Electronic
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components / equipment. Incorporating and innovative PWM amplifier that achieves high stability and has an input voltage regulation of.3%. The series offer rise and fall time control of the test voltage and a stable output which is unaffected by mains voltage variations, plus the ability to select 50 or 60Hz test frequency. Upper and lower current limits can be set within the range of 0.01mA to 110mA in AC mode and 0.01mA to 11mA in DC mode. AC test voltage
is settable from 0.05kV to 5kV. D.C test
voltages can be varied from 0 to 6kV. All models will operate from any global AC input voltages and frequencies; and are equipped with a USB interface. Also available for hire.
Telonic Instruments Ltd Tel: +44 (0) 118 9786911 Web:
www.telonic.co.uk enter 821
eaward’s most advanced electrical safety tester establishes a brand new approach to portable appliance testing and other preventative maintenance by combining an onboard camera to capture visual evidence.
Apollo 600 meets formal PAT visual inspection needs S
As well as an onboard risk assessment tool to help determine re-test intervals, the new multi-purpose PAT tester incorporates a built-in digital camera to enable high quality images to be tagged against appliance records for completely traceable electrical safety record keeping and maintenance. The camera’s usefulness doesn’t end there, a new video shows ten different ways that the camera can be used to provide visual evidence for different tests and inspections, including risk assessment, PPE checks, asset recognition and more.
Seaward Group Tel: (0191) 586 3511 Web:
www.seaward.co.uk
44 NOVEMBER 2014 | ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING enter 822 HBM equipment
provides high precision measurement in Bloodhound development
he AMRC Advanced Structural Testing Centre (ASTC) has utilized HBM’s MGCplus for a number of measurement tasks as part of
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towards the development of the Bloodhound SSC project. Phil Spiers, Head of the ASTC comments, “We use HBM’s equipment extensively in our work as a structural testing centre tasked with proving the material properties of new manufacturing processes and completing finished components. The ASTC is accredited by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) and is the only structural test facility within a UK university to hold ‘in-house methods’ accreditation. This means that it can develop new test procedures to prove components under real-world conditions.” Bloodhound SSC is a supersonic land vehicle that aims to achieve 1,000 miles per hour (1,609 km/h) to break the existing land speed record world by over 30 per cent.
HBM United Kingdom Ltd Tel: 020 8515 6100 Web:
www.hbm.com
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quicker and easier to install. A key development was eliminating the need to mount the reflector on the conveyor to return the light beam.
Operators no longer have the time-consuming task of mounting the reflector and aligning the sensor to it.
The push button teach-in process
also facilitates rapid commissioning and set-up. “Instead of a reflector, the metallic surface of a convenient machine component is used a reference surface. This innovation also opens up extra design freedom for packaging machine builders.” A new AutoAdapt feature automatically compensates for sudden contamination of the lens by dust or product residue, and then re-establishes the original threshold levels when it is are cleaned up. False readings and line downtime are therefore minimised and intervals between cleanings can be extended.
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