Sensors are becoming a required component within many hydraulic and pneumatic systems. Automation and efforts to move toward more predictive maintenance are just some of the reasons for this.
Both Kalid Ortiz, Product Marketing Manager, Sensors, Festo NAM, and Leandro Zaza, Product Manager, Electronics Division, HYDAC, noted during a webinar with Power & Motion that about 70-90% of the fluid power technologies their companies develop now include sensors, and they predict that will reach 100% in the not too distant future.
So what types of sensors are being used in fluid power systems and what benefits are they bringing? These are some of the questions Ortiz and Zaza answered during our webinar discussion, and highlighted in the excerpt included in the top spot in today’s newsletter. Be sure to register for the webinar “Sensors for Fluid Power Systems: The Technologies and Trends Driving Industry Adoption” which takes place September 30 at 10 a.m. Central for the full discussion on sensor technology for hydraulics and pneumatics.
How have you seen use of sensors evolve in recent years? What capabilities are you looking for in a sensor? What have been some of the biggest benefits you’ve seen come from integrating sensors into fluid power as well as other motion control technologies?
Feel free to email me at [email protected] to offer your thoughts!
Sara Jensen, Editor, Power & Motion
