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Contrinex Smart Camera 3D — Affordable and Simple-to-Implement Measurement Sensor

Sensors & Sensing Systems
In modern warehousing, logistics and manufacturing environments, accurate package dimensioning is a critical requirement for efficient automated sorting and material handling.
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Extra Distance Inductive Sensors: 4x Sensing Distance – Robust Reliable Detection, Whatever the Weather

Sensors & Sensing Systems
Contrinex is renowned for both its technical leadership and the robustness and reliability of its factory automation sensors. During this period of unusually warm...
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Spotting the Unseen: Contrinex’s UV Transparent Object Detection Sensors Revolutionise Transparent Plastic Detection.

Sensors & Sensing Systems
For manufacturers operating high-speed thermoforming lines, the reliable detection of transparent plastic sheet has long been a critical yet challenging task. Ensuring consistent material...
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Satron’s Precision Turbidity Measurement is Transforming CIP Washline Efficiency

Sensors & Sensing Systems
In an era of soaring energy costs and stringent environmental regulations, the dairy sector is under pressure to de-carbonise. We explore how moving from...
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Seamless Integration: How ReeR Safety Helps Synchronise Safety and Throughput.

Sensors & Sensing Systems
In the demanding world of industrial finishing, safety and productivity are often viewed as opposing forces. However, by integrating process control with safety logic...
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Eliminating the Double-Sheet Dilemma: Contrinex Expands Smart Double-Sheet Detection Portfolio

Sensors & Sensing Systems
Robust, reconfigurable, and ROI-focused: The new Smart Double-Sheet Sensors bring high-end protection to every metal-forming environment. In the world of metal forming, the cost of...
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What’s the Inside of an IO-Link Sensor ‘Look’ Like? – Contrinex’s PocketCodr Let’s You ‘See’ What Your Sensor ‘Sees’.

Sensors & Sensing Systems
With the IO-Link serial communications protocol becoming increasingly common in sensors from most manufacturers, are you wondering what it can do, or perhaps what...
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Elevating Efficiency: Precision Sensing Meets Safety in Next-Gen Vertical Storage.

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The upcoming IntraLogisteX exhibition being run alongside the Robotics & Automation exhibition, is indicative of the ever-increasing role automation plays in material handling. Exhibitor...
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Contrinex M5 Photoelectric Sapphire Diffuse Sensors: Precision, Durability, with IO-Link.

Sensors & Sensing Systems
Contrinex, a name synonymous with excellence in miniature sensing, has once again raised the bar with its M5 photoelectric sensors. These diffuse-sensing units, featuring...
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Contrinex Inductive Ensures Automated Tool-Change on Hydraulic Press Goes Smoothly.

Sensors & Sensing Systems
Image Header: The low-cost but reliable Contrinex sensor verifies that the press tool is fully closed. A recent automation project has successfully streamlined the tool-changing...
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Keeping a Lid on High-Volume Food Packaging: A Look at Contrinex’s C23PA Photoelectric Sensors

Manufacturing News
In the fast-paced world of food packaging, maintaining control over automated lines is paramount to success. Contrinex’s versatile C23PA photoelectric sensors provide a wide...
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Contrinex’s Robust RFID System is ‘Key’ to the Process Control & Tracking of Wash-stations, or Contrinex’s robust RFID prevents Washing Machines ‘getting in a...

Sensors & Sensing Systems
A manufacturer of industrial workpiece-carrier systems trusts Contrinex's robust RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology to identify component baskets and initiate automated in-process washing. A...
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‘A Star from My Demo Kit Toolbox of Sensors’

Sensors & Sensing Systems
In a recent conversation with a system integrator, we got to discussing the special or best sensors in my ‘tool kit’. That conversation inspired...
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AUTOMOTIVE METAL-FORMER TRUSTS CONTRINEX SAFETY CURTAINS TO PROTECT OPERATORS FROM CAUSTIC WASH TANK

Sensors & Sensing Systems
An automotive Tier 1 producer of metal assemblies uses a high-pressure/high-temperature degreasing tank line to clean machined metal parts. The manufacturer needs a reliable...
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Contrinex Launches Smart Double-Sheet Detection Sensors

Sensors & Sensing Systems
Contrinex sets a new standard for Double-Sheet Detection Sensors, delivering precision, durability, and ease of use. Double-Sheet Detection Sensors aim to eliminate costly tool damage...
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Contrinex Adds Photoelectric Sensors to it’s Smart Measurement Sensor Solutions.

Sensors & Sensing Systems
As a technology leader in sensors for over 50 years, Contrinex is already helping customers apply the opportunities of Industry 4.0 with its range...
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Contrinex Smart Sensor Nut Detection Video

Sensors & Sensing Systems
Napoleon Bonaparte reportedly said that "A good sketch is better than a long speech" and even if Confucius said that “a picture is worth...
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Contrinex Background Suppression Photoelectric Sensors are ‘Brie’-lliant for ‘Grate’ Cheese Packaging

Sensors & Sensing Systems
Contrinex’s small, but very capable, Ecolab-certified C23PA photoelectric sensors provide reliable and robust sensing on a high-speed cheese packaging line. Background Suppression Diffuse sensing to...
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90 Seconds to Create Custom Nut Detection Smart Sensor Using the PocketCodr App

Sensors & Sensing Systems
Nuts are an essential component in many assemblies. However, they challenge automation systems because of their low metal content for detection with inductive sensors...
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The Industry-Leading Precision of Contrinex’s Analogue Inductives ‘Ring a Bell’ at SPS

Sensors & Sensing Systems
Contrinex’s Analogue Inductive sensors offer industry-leading precision with an accuracy of a few microns (µm) and are trusted in a wide range of applications...
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Contrinex Analogue Inductive’s High Speed & Precision Trusted to Manage Web Tension

Sensors & Sensing Systems
Textile handling machines push the boundaries of speed and precision, making a fit with the speed, precision, long range and reliability of Contrinex’s Analogue...
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Contrinex Background-Suppression Photoelectrics Know When the Box is Only Half-full

Sensors & Sensing Systems
Contrinex’s C23 family of photoelectric sensors is small but powerful, with industry-leading performance. They offer a wide range of sensing technologies in a choice...
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Contrinex’s Ready-to-Integrate Photoelectric Distance Measurement Modules are Small but Mighty

Sensors & Sensing Systems
Contrinex’s expertise in precision photoelectric measurement has been packaged into tiny sensing modules for robot gripper manufacturers, robot integrators and machine builders. Small but...
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Contrinex’s Analogue Inductive Sensors Micron Accuracy Optimise Wind Turbines

Sensors & Sensing Systems
Contrinex sensors' high performance and reliability are trusted in many applications. Still, perhaps one that best illustrates the value of precision with accuracy down...
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Contrinex’s Tiny & Strong M5 Inductives Trusted to Keep CNC High-speed Spindles ‘Spinning’

Sensors & Sensing Systems
Contrinex sensors' high performance and reliability are trusted by many manufacturers of high-speed machining centres. One such application is providing reliable and robust sensing...
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Contrinex M5 Diffuse Sapphire Photoelectric Sensors are a ‘Jewel’ 💎

Sensors & Sensing Systems
Contrinex has a reputation for the excellence of its miniature sensors. As well as manufacturing the smallest inductive sensor in the world at ø3mm...
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Contrinex DNV-Approved Maritime Inductives Help ‘Seas’ the Opportunities of Automation

Sensors & Sensing Systems
The challenging and demanding world of Marine operations values reliability and durability, making it an important market for Contrinex sensors. For over two decades,...
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Contrinex Provides A Choice of Spindle Monitoring Options for a CNC Machine Manufacturer.

Machine Building
Contrinex is renowned for the performance and reliability of its sensors. Still, another benefit is that the large size of its sensor portfolio can...
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‘Hot Stuff’ from Contrinex’s High-Temperature Rated Inductives.

Sensors & Sensing Systems
Contrinex’s industry-leading temperature stability is even more apparent on their ‘HIGH-temperature’ rated inductive sensors. Some versions feature remote electronics in a small module positioned...
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The Performance Advantages of Contrinex’s Miniature M5 Background-Suppression Photoelectric Sensors Are ‘Black & White’🦓

Sensors & Sensing Systems
Contrinex’s state-of-the-art miniature Background-Suppression photoelectric sensors pack powerful performance into their small M5 (threaded 5mm diameter) x 35mm long body. For comparison, a match...
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A SNEAK PREVIEW of the Sensors PLUS Automation will bring to FoodManufacturing.Live

Sensors & Sensing Systems
Next week sees the Food Manufacturing Live exhibition at the National Motorcycle Museum, on Wednesday 1st May, in Solihull, Birmingham, next to the NEC - Come and say hello...
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Contrinex Long-Range Inductive Sensors Excel at Presence-Checking Small Metal Inserts.

Sensors & Sensing Systems
The automotive industry demands parts that are verified to be 100% correct, therefore a supplier of injection moulded parts trusts Contrinex inductives from their...
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Contrinex ‘2-Wire’ Inductives Improve on Mechanical Breakers to Give a Platform a Lift.

Sensors & Sensing Systems
An upgrade project for a platform lift used in a materials handling installation had its old mechanical limit switches swapped-out for 2-Wire inductive sensors...
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Contrinex Inductives Help Make Sure You’re Kept In ‘Hot Water’

Sensors & Sensing Systems
Stainless-steel-braided hydraulic hoses for water heaters undergo over-pressure testing at the final stage of manufacture. Before pressure is applied, a system using several Contrinex...
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