Wintriss Controls Group, Acton, MA, has introduced a new line of sensors for protecting stamping and forming dies, including broader-range proximity sensors, short- and long-range diffuse reflective sensors, a distance-settable optical-tri-angulation sensor, and an ultra-long-range infrared through-beam sensor. The new proximity sensors reportedly have four times the range of similarly sized inductive proximity sensors. Also introduced: proximity sensors that ignore ferrous metals and instead only detect nonferrous alloys. These sensors prove very useful when detecting parts made of aluminum, brass, phosphor-bronze or copper, while a typical proximity sensor will detect the tooling more readily than the part in those cases.
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