Non-contact MTS sensors save space and money
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RDP Electronics product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Oct 9, 2008
RDP Electronics's non-contact MTS Temposonics position sensors can measure up to 30 positions along a common axis using a single sensor.
This saves space and money compared with conventional displacement sensors and rotary encoders.
The multi-position sensor will suit applications such as cutting in the paper, ceramics, metal-working and timber industries, or for multi-position measurement for materials handling, plastics machinery or construction monitoring.
For example, controlling rapid and precise adjustment of cutting width, each cutting tool can have its own position magnet on the sensor mounted in parallel to the motion axis and travelling independently.
Depending on the number of measuring points, an equivalent number of position magnets, each generating its own signal, travel along the sensor housing simultaneously.
Each magnet is attached to a moving machine part.
Multi-position measurement is available for all Temposonics sensors, with fieldbus interface, enabling CANbus and Profibus versions to measure up to 30 positions simultaneously.
Sensors with EtherCAT output provide measurement of up to 20 positions in one cycle in the asynchronous mode or five positions and five velocities during the synchronous mode (distributed clock).
For operational flexibility, the sensors are available as profile or rod-shaped versions, with detached electronics or with a flexible sensing element.
With a linearity better than +/- 0.01 per cent FS and a repeatability of < +/- 0.001 per cent FS, measurement lengths up to 20m are available.
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