Sensor Technology

UniTrain-I multimedia courses on automation provide knowledge and skills necessary for understanding, controlling, operating and maintaining modern process automation systems. With the aid of animations and numerous practical experiments using realistic systems, the various courses work through the basics, principles and properties of components in automated processes and manufacturing plants (including PLCs, bus systems, pneumatic drives and sensors).

Includes:

• Sensor technology experiment board with:
• Inductive and capacitive proximity switches, optoelectronic proximity switch, magnetic field sensor, optoelectronic sensor with fibre optic wave guide
• Two guide rails (X and Y axes) for moving material samples
• Electrically driven X axis with displacement measurement facility
• Motor-driven segmented disc with speed control to determine limiting frequencies
• Counters and frequency meters
• Various interchangeable material samples

Course contents:

• Introduction to the operation and function of sensors
• Introduction to the application areas of various sensors
• Determining how various material samples affect different sensors
• Measurement of sensing distances, hysteresis, limiting values and switching frequencies for inductive, capacitive, optical and magnetic field sensors
• Explanation of the reduction factor

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