Post-Show Wrap-up for Del Mar Electronics & Manufacturing Show, San Diego, CA, April 24-25 2024
DMEMS Technical Program featured Micronor Sensors Seminar on Commercially Available Fiber Optic Sensors for Medical, Industrial, and Aerospace Applications
Download the complete Seminar slide deck for a comprehensive overview of Fiber Optic Sensors
Micronor Sensors is the only sensor solutions provider where fiber optic and electromechanical sensor technology solutions converge from one very experienced source.
Sensors are very broad class of components. Our focus is solely on sensors for kinetic applications, where things are in motion or put into motion:
- Encoders and resolvers, FO or EM, to monitor rotary or linear motion and position
- Rotary or linear limit switches, FO or EM, where discrete position feedback is required
- Emergency stops, limit switches and pendants, FO or EM, where remote operator signaling is crucial
- Multi-axis FO Acceleration sensors for dynamically monitoring acceleration or vibration
- Strain or force monitoring with FBGs
- Temperature sensors, GaAs or FBGs, where high precision single point or multipoint temperature monitoring is required
We work with customers coming from both sides. Sometimes a Fiber Optic Sensor is the only solution. And sometimes a conventional Electromechanical solution makes the most sense. We look at our customer’s application from both sides to help choose the Right solution – the sweet spot where performance and price crossover.
Our sensor offerings are real, commercialized products. Our goal is to maintain some stock of specific sensors that help the customer get going with his application. The worst decisions are made when lead time forces poor choices and compromises.
Sensors should not be hidden under glass (no fiber optic pun intended!). At our booth, you could feel, touch and see them operate in real time. This year featured the following fiber optic sensor products:
- Temperature sensing with both Single Point GaAs and Multipoint FBGs
- Multipoint Strain sensing with FBGs – both a micro and a macro application
- Lilikoi Innovations FBG-based miniature force sensors for miniature robotic applications
- MR387 series FO Emergency Stop solution – the MR387 family that offers POF, Multimode or Single Mode fiber and distance solutions
- MR430 series POF based Absolute Encoder for MRI and other industrial rated robotic applications
We presented a seminar on fiber optic sensors, Commercially Available Fiber Optic Sensors for Medical, Industrial, and Aerospace Applications. Click on the seminar link to download the complete, post-show slide deck from the Seminar. SYNOPSIS: Fiber optic sensors provide immunity to EMI/RFI, magnetic fields, RF, microwaves, MRI, high voltage and radiation – plus their incredibly small size and ability to reach longer distances than their electromechanical counterparts. Also these incredible, all-optical, non-electrical, completely passive sensors also do not require any electrical power whatsoever. The sensors can be installed in place of their electromechanical counterparts and their remote controllers offer plug-and -play interface compatibility with industry-standard PLCs or Control Systems. This seminar will provide an overview of these off-the-shelf, fiber optic “equivalents” of conventional electronics-based sensors: absolute & incremental encoders, emergency stop, microswitch, accelerometers, temperature and strain sensors. We will also present case studies of actual applications in the commercial medical, industrial, and mil/aero fields.
The very next conference and LIVE THEATER presentations will be in Northern California – Sensors Converge 2024, Santa Clara, CA, June 24-26 2024!
And our final conference and seminar presentation is in Southern California – Anaheim Electronics and Manufacturing Show 2024, Anaheim, CA, September 25-26 2024
