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- Smart Load Sensor
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... - Tidal Turbine To Light The Thames
A small proportion of the Thames is to be illuminated using power generated by the flow of the river itself, as Kingston University tests prototypes of a new hydroelectric turbine design... - Novel Sensors Aid Tidal Turbine Development
Non-contact torque sensors from Sensor Technology are playing a key role in the development of commercial-scale in-stream tidal turbines produced by Irish company, OpenHydro... - Sensor Technology Provides The Key To Learning
The electrical machines laboratory at the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) has greatly increased in its effectiveness as a teaching resource since TorqSense non-contact torque sensors from Sensor Technology have been fitted to five machine sets... - Putting Feeling To Drugs Safety And Handling
Total traceability extends to packaging as well as product in the rarefied world of pharmaceuticals. Capcoder Ltd has adopted a novel torque sensing system as the core of the datalogging capabilities of its bottle sealing machines... - Talking Sense About Technology Transfer
Technology transfer may prove one of the cornerstone engines for growth as the UK emerges from recession over the coming months. Sensor Technology in Oxon are virtually addicted to the habit, so we asked their Tony Ingham how it has shaped the company's development and what the future holds... - Non-contact Torque Sensor Now Mounts In Moments
The latest model of TorqSense, the non-contact digital torque measuring system, incorporates an integral sprocket or pulley, allowing easy fit-and-forget mounting in a vast range of plant and machinery such as drum mixers, generators, pump, dynamometers and conveyor drives... - Super Smart Helicopter Load Sensor Knows Everything
A helicopter load sensor to be launched at Helitech marries GPS (global positioning system) track guidance with load sensing and a host of other intelligent functions to automatically optimise complex operations such as spraying and multiple random load billing... - Rapid Expansion Means New Premises
A second office move is on the cards for torque measuring innovators Sensor Technology, reflecting the rapid growth since its last relocated five and a half years ago. The company will move its manufacturing, sales and marketing and administration in June to Apollo Park, Banbury, three miles from its head office and research and development facility. - Reducing Engine Friction
An innovative torque sensor is helping to reduce engine emissions and improve economy as part of a project to develop an intelligent lubrication system.
With engine efficiency under the spotlight like never before, automotive companies are exploring all avenues for improving performance. And because engines have a rotating power output, torque is the key measurement. - 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. - Torquing Sense For Process Plant Control
Plant monitoring and control is particularly vital in the continuous process industries, where multiple machines must act in harmony day after day and failure of a single machine can lead to massive consequential losses of production. - 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 torque monitoring. - Testing Time For Vacuum Cleaner Maker
A company that designs and build custom test equipment for the manufacturing and research industries has developed a cost saving sub-system that allows eight dynamometer test rigs to share a single calibration unit based on a Digital TorqSense transducer from Sensor Technology Ltd. - 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 from Sensor Technology employing Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) techniques to deliver high-bandwidth, non-contact solution. - 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 parameters. - Lotus Hybrid Blooms
The torque-current characteristics of a combined motor-generator developed for a Lotus-based hybrid car have been comprehensively mapped by a TorqSense digital torque sensor. - When Two is Better than One
Sensor Technology, the company that developed practical non-contact torque measurement, will once again unveil a major innovation. - Big Push to Recycle Plastic
Cold extrusion is playing an ever greater part in recycling of waste plastic, and the Department for Business and Enterprise is sponsoring research into development of the machinery necessary for such work. - Intelligent Extruder Plans Its Own Growth
A bench top extruder developed at Bradford University is able to collect data about its own operation and to determine a wide range of characteristics of the material with which it is working. - China Syndrome
Enough enquiries to double its business levels in Asia were generated when UK torque measuring specialists Sensor Technology exhibited alongside their local distributor DMS at "Sensors China 2007", an exhibition designed to fast track key technologies into that country's rapidly expanding industrial base. - UAV Takes Fast Track To Altitude
Development of a vertical take-off and landing unmanned aerial vehicle is nearing completion, thanks in part to a non-contact digital torque sensor, TorqSense, which proved the only viable option for use on the test rig. - Torque of the Web
Torque monitoring specialists Sensor Technology has redeveloped its website (www.sensors.co.uk) to make it easier to use and provide relevant information to visitors as quickly as possible. It has simultaneously updated its brochures to explain its non-contact technology in a clear, concise format. - Fire Sprinkler Systems Get Safety Torque
Replacing a torque meter with a torque sensor has revolutionised the validating process for bespoke Fireset sprinkler systems built by Grundfos Pumps Ltd. in Leighton Buzzard. - Regen Drive Turns Laundry Green
High performance torque measurement is helping to improve the energy efficiency of domestic washing machines, enabling consumers to make greener purchase decisions. - 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. - Mini-Mixer Will Be The Torque Of Many Industries
A torque sensor is helping analyse recipes' mixing properties in a project that could slash development costs in the food and plastics industry and help nanotechnology advances in the pharmaceuticals world. - Don't Touch! The Shaft Is Turning
Total solutions for non-contact torque measurement can be seen on Sensor Technology's stand at the 2007 M-Tec exhibition. - Texans Go To Bed To Test Robots
The University of Texas is working on a new test bed that will radically improve evaluation of motors for demanding applications. Key to the researchers' experiments, and at the heart of the test bed is the TorqSense transducer developed by Sensor Technology. - Gongs Galore
Sensor Technology picked up its second prestigious overseas award of the year at Asia's premier industrial exhibition in July, following on from a similar success at Sensors 2006 in Chicago in May. - Industrial Sensor Helps Knee Sufferers
A medical researcher is using an industrial torque sensor to analyse the performance of implanted replacement knee joints, hoping to increase the understanding of their long term post-surgery performance. - 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. - New Torque Sensor Will Revolutionise Machine Control
Torque measuring specialist Sensor Technology Ltd will be displaying on their stand D20 their complete range of TorqSense transducers and TorqView2, a complementary software programme that generates a visual instrumentation display of the TorqSense output. - Long Service Motors Tested After Engineering
Specialist industrial motor manufacturer Solutions Engineering in Stoke on Trent is able to test the performance of its motors, having built a test station to its own specification based around a piezo electric torque transducer. - 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 their design on a non-contact torque sensor that could effectively be isolated from damaging shock loads. - New Premises Enable Global Expansion
Expansion plans have been put in train at high technology torque measuring company Sensor Technology, with a move to additional premises for the operational staff and several other initiatives to prepare the company for a period of sustained growth. - 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 and delicate set of slip rings, the TorqSense transducer, developed by Sensor Technology in Banbury, uses a radio frequency (RF) link to constantly monitor the torque in a shaft under test. - Ensuring Accurate Feel To Power Steering
A dynamometer for testing 180 motors per hour for vehicle electrohydraulic power assisted steering, uses a non-contact torque transducer from Sensor Technology of Banbury for ensuring complete accuracy of the readings. - 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 Engineering in Wolverhampton and incorporating an innovative non-contact torque transducer. - Torque About Reliability For Powered Wheelchairs
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 in Dorset. - Torquing Up Hardware & Software
Sensor Technology will be using its stand at the M-Tec exhibition to showcase both new hardware and new software. - Torque About Visualisation
Sensor Technology has developed TorqView2, a software programme written using National Instruments LabVIEW to generate a Virtual Instrumentation Display of the output from a TorqSense transducer and can be run on virtually any computer. - Investing In People, With Military Precision
Sensor Technology, the Oxon-based manufacturer of torque sensors, has received the Investors in People Award, recognising its commitment to training and its record of staff retention. - Non-Contact Torque Sensing Now Available To All
The full range of sizes for Sensor Technology's RWT310/320 series of TorqSense Rotary Torque Sensors is now available, following completion of the development project by the Oxon based company. - Sensor Erupts With Volcanic Data
The secrets of climate change and the formation of giant lava flows on Mars may soon be revealed to a British professor and his research team, as they investigate the lava flows from Mount Etna. - German Manufacturers Talk Sense
British innovation looks set to storm through Germany industry, following the massive interest generated by the launch of Sensor Technology's new non-contact torque sensor at the Hannover Fair. - New Torque Sensor Will Revolutionise Machine Control
Machine designers have been presented with a significant new technology for measuring power in drive shafts and other rotating machine elements, following the launch of the RWT310/320 series of TorqSense Rotary Torque Sensors by developers Sensor Technology Ltd. - SAWs: A Cutting Edge Technology
Sensor Technology is a small hi tech Company involved in the R&D and production of rotary torque measuring transducers using Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) technology. - Sensor Hones In On Sharp Operators
Risk is being driven out of the use of heavy duty diamond cutting tools thanks to a Euro 800,000 EU-backed research programme at Greenwich University in London, to determine the true operating characteristics of such equipment. - The Answer Is Blowing In The Wind
Performing scientific experiments in the sort of winds and weather conditions that blow off the North Sea and across the Northumbrian hills, calls for robust equipment and reliable researchers. - SAW Sensor Sees Servo Resonance
Servo control systems that reduce drive-train torsional resonance are being researched at the University of Sheffield. Underpinning the research is a radically new, non-contact, low cost, high bandwidth, torque transducer based on Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) techniques developed by Sensor Technology in Banbury, Oxfordshire and trade marked TorqSense. - Drive To Optimise Drug Delivery
Critical drug delivery errors are being driven out of medical practise by advancing intravenous (IV) medication delivery technologies with smart memories and optimised drive mechanisms. - 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 non-Newtonian fluids. - It's Safer Than You Thought To Belt Up
Car seatbelts are now proven to be more reliable than previously thought thanks to a chance discovery by test rig builder Mindready Solutions in Belfast. - Demand Growing For Non-Contact Torque Measurement
Diverse sectors of industry are preparing to embrace Surface Acoustic Wave techniques for non-contact torque measurement, and leading developer Sensor Technology is gearing up to meet the demand. - Ultrasound Helps Optimise Drive Designs
A bespoke pump maker is using ultrasound waves to efficiently model drive torque and thus contain development costs to within predictable limits. Charles Austen Pumps has recently upgraded test facilities with Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) equipment from Sensor Technology, a recognised leader in the field.
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