Perhaps unimaginable just 20 years ago, manufacturing and process operations are increasingly reliant on flexible, reliable sensing technologies, which provides essential advantages in the age of information.
These sensors provide data from diverse industrial applications with real-time measurements. And once aggregated as "big data" and analyzed, it empowers new operations efficiencies, product improvements, maintenance strategies and - most importantly - tangible productivity improvements.
Sensors are the backbone of Industry 4.0, synonymous with the industrial internet of things and smart factories. And the effects on commodities, manufacturing, commerce and society will be untold.
So, let's spend this week reviewing some of the innovative or established applications of industrial sensors.
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