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Rotational Speed Detection for Slip Monitoring


Process Automation News & Events


Rotational speed monitoring systems provide detection of mechanical failures in drive units. Read how this works using the example of a dispersing plant...

PROCESS AUTOMATION

Pepperl+Fuchs is a global market leader of industrial safety equipment for intrinsic safety and explosion protection technology. We offer a complete range of solutions for the process automation industry that includes intrinsic safety isolators, zener barriers, signal conditioners, fieldbus technology, remote I/O, HART interfaces,  Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) for hazardous environments, custom cabinets, junction boxes and separator alarm systems.

We have also developed a complete line of on-line corrosion & level measurement products and purge & pressurization units. Target industries for our Process Automation division are the chemical pharmaceutical, petrochemical, oil & gas, industries, as well as wastewater treatment and power technology.

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Pepperl+Fuchs Acquires the Proximity Sensor Business of Siemens


Factory Automation News & Events


Mannheim - February 2010: Pepperl+Fuchs, worldwide leading manufacturer of electronic sensors and components for intrinsically safe explosion protection, acquires the proximity sensor business of Siemens ...

FACTORY AUTOMATION

Pepperl+Fuchs introduced the world’s first industrial proximity sensor in 1958, and ever since that time we’ve been providing the automation industry with the highest quality industrial sensors.

Pepperl+Fuchs’ sensors are crafted using state-of-the-art components and the latest technologies to ensure precision, reliability, and functionality. Our industrial sensors’ combination of durability, high accuracy, and quick response time make them an invaluable tool in industrial automation in the automotive industry, doors, gates and elevators manufacturing, machine and plant engineering, material handling, packaging, print, paper and finishing and process equipment industries.

Our inductive and capacitive sensors along with photoelectric and ultrasonic technologies are the backbone of our Factory Automation product line. Other products include rotary encoders, positioning systems, AS-Interface, RFID, and barcode systems.

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