Sensors are mainly used in which industrial areas?

Automotive Manufacturing: Sensor applications are ever new After years of development, China's automotive market has become one of the world's fastest growing automotive markets. With the increase in China's automobile sales, sensor applications are also growing rapidly. Miniaturized, multi-functional, integrated and intelligent sensors will gradually replace the traditional sensors and become the mainstream of automotive sensors. In addition to the configuration of sensing systems to the car, the application of sensors in the automobile manufacturing process has long been no longer new. In the automated process of automobile production, the position detection of parts and components has become an important part of the application of sensors, but also the most demanding part of the sensor. In order to meet the highly accurate detection, high-precision sensors have been widely used in automotive parts processing, engine manufacturing, automotive plant stamping, painting, welding, assembly and other automated production of a variety of position detection. Due to the automotive industry to absorb new technologies and new products, the automation requirements are also higher, so like Turck, Efgate, Balluff, Baumer and many other sensor companies will be the industry as an important target market. According to Wan Hui, sales manager of key industries at EFM, the hottest application of EFM in the automotive industry is the solution of RFID and IO-Link products. "RFID technology is mainly used to realize the traceability of automotive parts and automotive parts warehousing and logistics management, IO-Link solutions mainly help automotive manufacturers to realize the production of remote monitoring and big data collection, these are with the 'Industry 4.0' interface." It is the industry on the production technology requirements continue to improve, so that the application of sensors in the field of continuous updating, automobile manufacturing has also become an important engine to promote the innovation of sensor technology. Electronics manufacturing industry: sensors to meet the high-precision detection In recent years, the popularity of consumer electronics products has made the electronics manufacturing industry in the country has developed rapidly, accelerating the pace of the electronics manufacturing industry. Consumer demand for its use from the level of gradual tendency to the pursuit of the trend, thus promoting consumer electronics in the development, design and manufacturing level of accelerated development. In the face of the rapidly expanding market, electronic manufacturing equipment is also constantly optimized, updated, to improve efficiency, improve yields, improve equipment operation safety and other directions. At the same time, in order to meet the market demand, the electronics manufacturing industry a large number of applications of industrial sensors, in order to comprehensively improve the overall production capacity. In the production line of electronics manufacturing, whether it is robot assembly or electronic component inspection, it is indispensable for the application of vision sensing equipment. Tianjin Turck marketing and product management department senior product manager Feng Xiaodong that: "vision sensors will also become the sharp edge of cutting into the intelligent manufacturing, electronics manufacturing high-precision demand and production line specialization makes robotics, machine vision and automation solutions are considerable technical barriers, mastery of the core technology and production experience is the sensor enterprise rooted in the electronics industry Necessary conditions." Industrial robots: sensors to give it the ability to perceive In recent years, machine for man has become a boom, the industrial robot market is booming. In order to make the robot to improve the ability to adapt, timely detection of the operating environment, the application of a large number of sensing devices on the robot, these sensors to improve the robot's working conditions, so that it can more adequately complete the complexity of the work. In a robot, tactile sensors, visual sensors, force sensors, proximity sensors, ultrasonic sensors, and auditory sensors are integrated, each with a clear division of labor to ensure that the robot can work as well as a human. Many collaborative robots have integrated moment sensors and cameras to ensure a better viewing angle during operations while keeping the work area safe; a vision sensor is a camera that can perform a variety of tasks. From detecting moving objects to positioning parts on a conveyor belt, it allows the robot to adjust its movements appropriately based on the information it receives; if the vision sensor gives the robot eyes, the force sensor gives the robot a sense of touch, and the torque sensor is utilized to perceive the strength of the end-effector; in addition to considering the proper functioning of the robot itself, in order to ensure the safety of the operator, the robot should also be fitted with a safety sensors to trigger an emergency stop when the robot senses an abnormal force, thus ensuring the safety of the operator. "As robots also tend to be miniaturized, the installation space for sensors is even more limited, so in the application of robots, there is a greater need for micro-small sensors. Baumer plays to its advantage of being good at making micro-small products and focuses on the application of its products in the field of robotics, so as to make its high-speed and high-precision characteristics play their best in the robot arm." Baumer's marketing and sales manager, Song Xiaogang, is very optimistic about the application prospects of sensors in the field of robotics. Food processing and packaging: a must-have for enhancing automation Food safety issues are becoming more and more prominent, and China is paying more and more attention to food safety, so it has put forward refined requirements for food testing technology. In the past, China's food machinery manufacturers ignored the application of food testing technology, and with the machine performance improvement, food testing technology will have more room for development. In the food testing technology, sensors play an important role, the food temperature, location and other data acquisition helps a lot. The application of sensors not only improves the yield of food, but also protects the safety of food.