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Catalog helps select the right sensor
Pepperl+Fuchs has introduced edition 1.0 of the company’s North American Sensor Catalog and Selection Guide. This nearly 1,200-page resource details the company’s family of capacitive, inductive, weld immune, special application, NAMUR, ultrasonic, and photoelectric sensors. It also details the company’s rotary encoders, cordsets, special function devices, and accessories. Complete product specifications, benefits, and ordering information…
Wind sensor tech – a guide
A brochure, Sensor Technology for Wind Energy Applications, provides an overview of the world’s most comprehensive selection of sensing technologies for wind energy applications, and highlights. Pepperl+Fuchs has 10+ years experience in providing reliable sensing solutions to the industry. Sensor Technology for Wind Energy Applications also provides helpful illustrations of these technologies as applied in…
Transporter simplifies shipping nacelles
A German truck designer has collaborated with a hauling company and engineers from Vestas Wind Systems to devise a trailer just for transporting the latter company’s wind-turbine nacelles. Trailer manufacturer Goldhofer AG developed the equipment to handle the recent Vestas Mk6 and Mk7, 2-MW nacelle. The trailer is said to score well with crews in…