Sensors can be adapted in many different ways to suit customer-specific applications. Particularly in the case of high volume orders up to 100,000 pieces, Micro-Epsilon can produce customized sensors efficiently, which results in considerable cost reductions. Micro-Epsilon offers custom manufacturing for a wide range of sensor types:

Customized Eddy Current Sensors with Embedded Coil Technology

When a standard sensor does not meet its set requirements, users often turn to customer-specific solutions. But what can we do when the demands of the application exceed the sensors' physical capabilities? In such cases, help comes in the form of Micro-Epsilon's new ECT technology for capacitive sensors and eddy current sensors. This way, the sensors' operating limits can be greatly extended.

Eddy current sensors that are manufactured by using the ECT method, provide many benefits in use. Due to the miniature design and its construction using inorganic materials, there is virtually unlimited scope in terms of external design and shape of the sensor. High temperature stability and a long service life are also achieved by using special materials. If required, the complete evaluation electronics can be integrated in the sensor. ECT sensors are suitable for very harsh operating environments, e.g. where there are strong vibrations or shocks, high temperatures up to 350°C, in electromagnetic fields or in vacuum conditions. Examples for realized applications: Alignment of mirror segments on giant telescopes, semiconductor manufacture in ultra-high vacuums, measurement of grinding gap on refiners used in paper mills.

Features:

• Extreme long term stability
• Very reproducible temperature course
• Extreme mechanical robustness
• High temperatures of up to 350°C