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The robust and high sensing performance of Contrinex’s Ultrasonic sensors, available from PLUS Automation, enables them to be relied upon to confirm or measure levels. In this application, rather than looking at a silo or tank, we look at a tote bin, but away from the normal manufacturing environment, we …

The integration of interchangeable end-of-arm tooling for robots increases their flexibility and capability but also adds complexity. In some applications or industries, there can be a need to verify, plus perhaps track and record which tools have been used. In an aerospace application, for example, recording which end tools were …

This application looks at how Contrinex’s tiny Ø3mm inductive sensors, available from PLUS Automation, ensure a robot gripper can reliably pick up fragile silicon wafers without damaging them. A photovoltaic cell manufacturing plant handles a large number of fragile silicon wafers using a high level of automation. One such automation …

Contrinex’s inductive sensors are trusted in an astonishingly wide range of applications and industries for reliable position detection. With the introduction of SMART sensors as well as providing reliable detection, the sensor can also provide the system’s designer additional functionality. Looking at the final machine in this Smart manufacturing cell, …

Like automation, Contrinex sensors, available from PLUS Automation, are used in a wide variety of applications, and in this installation are trusted to ensure the safe and reliable control of weathertight doors on shipping. Customer application On ships, water-tight doors rely upon compressing seals around the perimeter of their frame, …

To prevent the misalignment of welded aluminium parts, a manufacturer of valves wanted to automate the process. An inductive proximity sensor would be used to ensure the presence and position of an aluminium tube, but it needed to be able to withstand the electromagnetic interference created by the exceptionally high …

Wednesday 7th June will see the UK launch of Contrinex’s innovative PocketCodr at the Smart Factory Expo’s Innovation Alley, during Manufacturing + Engineering Week, at the NEC, Birmingham. The PocketCodr unit and its companion app, bring the simplicity and portability of a phone app to the monitoring and configuration of …

Contrinex ‘s ‘YBES’ ‘Extended Slim’ Type 4, Safety Light Curtains are robust and feature-rich. Because fast commissioning reduces costs and risks, the YBES curtains have inbuilt alignment LEDs to speed up installation and a Bluetooth connection to a mobile phone or tablet running the ContriApp, speeds up their commissioning. The …

When designing an automated handling system for picking and placing test-tubes of blood, a manufacturer of automated laboratory equipment needed to ensure the vials were orientated the correct way around. Part of an in-vitro diagnostics system, the reliability, long operating distance and high resolution of Contrinex’s LRS-3030 Reflex Analogue Photoelectric …

Contrinex has combined two of factory automation’s key communication standards into its innovative IO-Link RFID Read/Write units to offer simple installation and integration, for example in Industry 4.0 systems. Contrinex’s ISO15693 RFID standard transponder tags and Read/Write modules, available from PLUS Automation, are mechanically robust, being designed to cope with …