Charlie Walker, Smart Sensor specialist with SICK UK, outlines the tools needed for sensor integration and how they can used to enable rapid process improvements. There was a time when sensors were simple switches, and their manufacturers just hardware suppliers. All that has all changed. Realising the full potential of intelligent sensors in an interconnected and data-rich world, means integrating them with one another, and with wider machine, factory, logistics and enterprise networks.
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