News from Sensor Technology
Smart Load Sensor Optimises Efficiency of Industrial Operations
A smart load sensor developed in the UK by Sensor Technology provides all the information needed to optimise efficiency and increase profitability of a wide range of industrial operations. The … Continue reading »
Iron Bird with Lightest Touch
A non-contact torque transducer is helping British Aerospace Systems stay on schedule for the delivery of the new Nimrod aircraft to the Ministry of Defence. Instead of using a complicated … Continue reading »
Torque about Improving Handling Accuracy
Dry bulk handling is en route to becoming a precision science with a level of control previously undreamt of, thanks to 20 years of research and development into digital non-contact … Continue reading »
Torque Sensors used on Dynamometer Rolling Road
A TorqSense transducer is helping ensure the reliability of powered wheelchairs, scooters, golf buggies and other electric vehicles, having been incorporated into a dynamometer rolling road built by PG Drives … Continue reading »
Testing Time for Business Jet
Development and qualification testing of three flap system actuators for the eagerly awaited new Falcon 7X business jet is being performed on a test rig designed and built by Comar … Continue reading »
Sensing for Servo Repairs
Reliability and robustness were the key requirements when Wyko Industrial Services set about building a test and calibration rig for its servomotor repair business in Aintree near Liverpool. They based … Continue reading »
Servo Research Points the Way to Improved Dynamics
Research at the University of Manchester has demonstrated servo systems with vastly improved dynamics with the most challenging of loads. The key to the increased performance is a torque transducer … Continue reading »
Nuclear Engineers Avoid Contact
A test rig built at Centa Transmissions in Shipley is allowing the company to guarantee that the precision gearboxes it supplies to nuclear industry will never fail prematurely. Despite its … Continue reading »
Designing Greener Cars Requires Sophisticated Testing
The automotive industry’s race to develop a new generation of high Performance, low emissions power plants has lead to the emergence of high capability test beds that simultaneously monitor multiple … Continue reading »
Wirelessness Reaches For The Skies
Aerospace development is a strategic industry within the British economy. It creates a lot of high value jobs directly and indirectly, while tremendous technological advances spin out of it. But … Continue reading »