Sensor Review: Volume 11 Issue 4

INTERFACING — ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY: A QUALITY FEATURE OF INCREMENTAL ENCODERS

Ian Frais

Modern automation and process control demands high‐quality sensors that are sensitive to increasingly small rotations. Consequently, optical incremental encoders are finding an…

NEW CERAMIC DEVELOPMENTS AT ELMWOOD: SEARCHING FOR A SUCCESSOR FOR THEIR TRADITIONAL BIMETALLIC THERMOSTATS, ELMWOOD SENSORS INVESTIGATED ELECTRO‐CERAMICS AND FOUND THEMSELVES IN POSSESSION OF A NUMBER OF EXCITING SPIN‐OFF DEVELOPMENTS

Jack Hollingum

In the early 1980s Elmwood Sensors, part of Hawker Siddeley's Instruments and Controls Division, was totally reliant on a single 15‐year‐old product range of electro‐mechanical…

INEX – 100 PER CENT ON‐LINE VISUAL INSPECTION OF CONSUMER PRODUCTS

Robert Kevin Dyche

In today's increasingly competitive marketplace, the customer is demanding higher standards of quality. This is particularly the case in the food manufacturing industry…

CRS CROSS THE POND WITH A DAB HAND FOR FOOD INSPECTION

Cheryl Pellerin

The food processing industry may be the ideal customer for machine vision and other sensor technology. As Massachusetts‐based Computer Recognition Systems (CRS) Inc. has learned…

NIR FOR NON‐CONTACT MEASUREMENT OF MOISTURE AND PROTEIN CONTENT

Michael Scott

The use of the Near Infra‐Red (NIR) part of the electromagnetic spectrum for laboratory measurement has been well established for many years. It was the food industry and its…

SENSORS DETECT FOOD CONTAMINATION

Alec MacAndrew, Chris Harris

Introduction Within the food industry today, there is an increasing trend towards the production of higher quality products. There are two major motivating factors behind this…

CLOSED PACK CONTENTS INSPECTION — WITHOUT X‐RAYS: NEW ANSWERS TO CONFECTIONERY PACKAGING — TECHNOLOGY PROVIDES THE KEY

Ahmad Faruq

As the manufacturing industry faces ever increasing pressure from retailers, consumers and legislators to raise standards of safety and package quality even higher, those involved…

SENSORS GROUP TO PLUG INTO EUROPEAN INITIATIVE

Jack Hollingum

The UK Sensor Group was launched on 5 July after a meeting which reviewed German initiatives and European opportunities.