Sensor
Five Minute Facts
Digital Accelerometers vs. Digital Adapters: Selecting the Right Sensor for Your Application
As industrial monitoring shifts toward digital data, engineers are evaluating how best to integrate vibration data into control and analysis systems. Two leading approaches—digital accelerometers and rugged industrial IEPE accelerometers paired with digital adapters—offer distinct trade-offs in performance, reliability, and environmental suitability. Understanding these differences ensures you select the most reliable and suitable solution for your application.
- Tom LaRocque
- Wilcoxon
Two Minute Tips
Optimizing Vibration Sensor Positioning: A Key Step Toward Reliable Condition Monitoring
In condition monitoring and predictive maintenance, vibration analysis is one of the most effective techniques for detecting early signs of mechanical failure in rotating machinery. However, the accuracy and value of vibration data heavily depend on one critical factor: correct sensor positioning.
- Shaiful Hady Mohamad
- Handy Engineering
Five Minute Facts
Sensor Reliability Impact on Predictive Maintenance Program Costs
Accelerometers with lower mean time between failures (MTBF) values result in higher costs for permanently installed vibration sensor applications - as much as $60 per vibration sensor. By taking the MTBF and manufacturing quality into account when making an accelerometer purchase, you can achieve lower overall program costs.
- Peter Eitnier
- Wilcoxon Sensing Technologies
Two Minute Tips
Sensor Fusion: The Path to Proactive Plant Maintenance and Operational Excellence
A powerful approach for improving plant maintenance programs is the integration of multiple sensing technologies to improve coverage of machines and different failure modes. This can be further complemented by effective analysis of the data from all the different sources. When using multiple sensors like this, it is called Sensor Fusion...
- Alan McCall
- Sensoteq
Articles
Digitalizing Traditional Sensor Technologies with IO-Link
Learn how IO-Link has changed the smart sensor industry, enabling you to adapt your current sensors to offer secure digital output, customize your system, and make smarter, data-driven decisions—all while reducing the costs of streamlining data.
- Bob Martin
- IMI Sensors
Webinars
Vibration Sensor Cabling Considerations
Join us to learn about selecting the right cable assembly for a vibration sensor as it's highly dependent on the environment in which the sensor will operate....
- Tom LaRocque
- Wilcoxon
10 Minute Talk
Creating the Ultimate Wireless Sensor
Sensoteq's David Procter explains the way to create the ultimate wireless sensor...
- David Procter
- Sensoteq
Webinars
Understanding the Benefits and Capabilities of Different Vibration Sensor Technologies in A CM System
In this webinar attendants will be able to gain insight about why sensor specific maintenance platforms are becoming a thing of the past, how vibration sensors and systems modular integration works, and provide insight on data normalization, sensor observability, sensor use per application and sensor response manipulation.
- David Bukowitz
- SensOS
Two Minute Tips
Determining the Battery Life of a Wireless Vibration Sensor
Wireless vibration sensors have their place in a good reliability program and can really benefit the maintenance team’s ability to monitor machine health reliably.
- Alan McCall
- Sensoteq
