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The printed coil technology of the new universal factor 1 sensor uprox®+ permits the flexible design of variable housing styles and opens new fields of application |
At the end of 2004, eleven years after the development of the factor 1 uprox® sensor with a ferrite core, the sensor specialist TURCK introduced the new sensor plus version with printed coils. In the meantime, the adaptable inductive sensor is employed in various installations. A&D talked with TURCK’s Product Manager Oliver Marks about his “baby”, and with Christian Wolf, the new member in TURCK’s Company Management and Axel Kuhbier, Product & Marketing Manager at Escha, about the new sales cooperation on connector products.
“uprox®+ is a real high-tech sensor, which clearly distinguishes itself from all competitor products”, states Oliver Marks, the manager in charge of position and proximity sensors of the Mülheim-based sensor and fieldbus specialist.
“Pricewise we remain within the known limits. The new sensor is capable of fulfilling various tasks, for which a variety of different sensor versions had to be kept on stock until today. This reduces costs – both on the part of the supplier and the customer. Customers are becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the total costs of a system installation are not determined by mere component prices. uprox®+ is the standard sensor for all applications. If you include the costs of the entire process in the calculation, uprox®+ is capable of significantly optimising the costs of a machine or system”, he emphasizes.
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Since approx. 30 years, inductive sensors have been increasingly employed in order to eliminate the various problems associated with mechanical switches. Due to the wear-free operation principle, inductive sensors have become more and more prevalent in industrial automation. Inductive sensors, however, also pose some problems, for instance, the limited temperature range, the lack of magnetic field immunity and material dependence of the sensor. For these cases, various special sensor types were developed, so that the original inductive sensor was supplemented by a wide range of special versions.
“In order to be able to offer “the universal” inductive sensor, TURCK developed the uprox® series in 1993”, explains Oliver Marks. These novel inductive sensors operated without a ferrite core and were technologically far advanced in comparison to the ferrite core sensors available at that time due to their air coil system. With this principle, the switching distance for all metals is identical (”factor 1”) and since the uprox® does not incorporate a ferrite core, it is inherently immune against disturbing magnetic fields, as occurring, for instance, during welding operations. With the new sensor family uprox®+ Turck has made another important move towards providing the universal inductive sensor...
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