48 News & Press Releases found
Sensor Technology Ltd. News
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TorqSense transducers help to guarantee valve actuator performance
Rotork Controls has established a global reputation for robust and reliable valve actuators, operating in some of the world’s most demanding and critical applications. Thorough testing of the motors used in the actuators is one of the keys to ...
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Wireless torque sensors ensure airliners’ safety
Airliners are subject to tremendous loads as they land and take off, from the touchdown of the undercarriage, to the back-thrust of the jet engines as they slow the aircraft on the runway and the wind pressure on the flaps and flight control ...
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Food Research All Washed Up
Real time process control for food manufacture has come a significant step closer, thanks to pioneering research work at University College Dublin into viscosity measurement techniques for characterising the flow and mixability of highly ...
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Low capacity torque sensors open up new worlds of plant and machinery control
New low capacity models of Sensor Technology’s non-contact torque sensors offer accurate measurement down to 200mNm (0.2Nm), for applications such as precision and high speed robots, medical devices, protheses and implants, small drives and ...
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World’s best vacuum seals tested but not touched
TorqSense, a non-contact digital torque monitoring system that could guarantee an infinite lightness of touch has proven to be the only way to test the seals of super high performance vacuum systems. The ultimate fields of precision manufacture, ...
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Sensors will define the future of production and technology
This past year it has been difficult to open an engineering magazine and not read about the Internet of Things (IoT), Industry 4.0 or Machine-to-Machine Communications (M2MC). But all the hype and predictions will come to naught if sensor ...
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New wireless torque technology
Sensor Technology has launched a new range of non-contact torque sensors based on a full four element strain gauge bridge design, complementing its existing non-contact sensors that use surface acoustic wave (SAW) detection. Designated the ...
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Pay as you sense
Equipment rentals are increasingly helping companies overcome the hurdle of finding investment capital to fund development and verification projects. The current phase of the economic cycle, recovery from a slowdown, is always difficult and ...
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Torque sensor improves efficiency of a city car
The teams at Eco-Runner Delft ( TU Delft ) have been working on building the world`s most efficient hydrogen-powered car since 2005 . Same task, new team: every year a new student team takes on the task of ...
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Pump and valve innovator finds a test rig technology that talks the torque
An inter-generational commitment to advancing science and engineering has seen Bifold transform from a 19th century mining lamp maker into a leading manufacturer of instrument valves and accessories, piping valves and pumps for the oil, gas and ...
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Torque Sensor improves efficiency hydrogen-powered city car
Eco-Runner Team Delft (TU Delft) is working on building the world’s most efficient hydrogen-powered car. This has been their goal since they were founded in 2005. Each year, a new team takes on the challenge to design and produce this ...
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Hydrogen car drives for efficiency world record
To measure the efficiency of the car’s drivetrain, Green Team Twente has built a bespoke test rig based on the TorqSense torque sensor made by Sensor Technology Ltd of Banbury in the UK. Green Team Twente is committed to developing ...
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Eco-Runner X by Team Delft - Reveal
Eco-Runner Team Delft reveals the world’s most efficient hydrogen-powered city car; the Eco-Runner X. Designed and built by an autonomous team of 27 top students of the Delft University of Technology, the vehicle is set to push ...
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Torque sensor for testing the most fuel efficient hydrogen car in the world
To create the most fuel efficient hydrogen car in the world, Green Team Twente has made a test setup with a torque sensor, to measure the efficiency of the car’s drivetrain. Green Team Twente is a student team that focuses on making ...
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Real-time control drives efficiency into dry bulk handling operations
Dry bulk cargos have to be loaded and unloaded quickly, efficiently, cost effectively and safely if shipping operations are to be profitable. The processes have long been mechanised, but by harnessing the power of computers to monitor the handling ...
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Lifting is going wireles
New wireless control technologies are being adopted by manufacturers and users of cranes and other lifting equipment. Tony Ingham of Sensor Technology Ltd explains the advantages and looks at how the field is developing. Most of us find it odd to ...
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Automatic monitoring of mobile harbour equipment ensures reliability and safety
The increasing globalisation of the world economy is pressurising ports, docks and harbours into handling ever-increasing volumes of cargo, so mobile harbour equipment has to work efficiently and reliably at all times. Tony Ingham of Sensor ...
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Improving asset availability to reduce coal handling costs
Coal is an important global resource and likely to remain so for many years to come. It is a crucial element in the energy mix and vital in the manufacture of a great many other products. But now more than ever, the pressure is on to reduce ...
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Torque Test Ensures Reliability of Steerable Drills
Hydrocarbon drilling accuracy has been increased tenfold by using adapted advanced aerospace guidance systems. And an equally innovative torque sensor ensures efficiency during the equipment's regular programmed maintenance. Gyrodata's high ...
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Technology Transfer Is More Important Then Innovation
Innovation, we are told, is the key to a successful manufacturing economy. Invent and patent something and you will make money on every one made – if it is mass produced you get an on-going income. Tony Ingham of Sensor Technology Ltd looks at ...