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The published Honeywell Sensotec catalog is only part of the story.
Most sensor manufacturers' story ends after the standard products
chapter. Honeywell Sensotec’s sensor capability extends beyond the
standard published product catalog, which is only about sixty percent
of what we actually build.
Our experience in designing and building custom sensors began
in the late 60’s and continues today with modified standard products,
or complete custom solutions for difficult sensor requirements.
Contact our inside sales department with your measurement problem
and application engineers will provide you with a Honeywell Sensotec
solution from one of the many sources we have at our command.
Every year Honeywell Sensotec supplies nearly 100,000 sensors
to our industrial markets of which 30-40% will have some customized
feature. The chances are that whatever your pressure, load, torque,
displacement or vibration application that we have encountered the
problem before and have already found the solution.
If we are unable to supply a ready built solution then our applications
engineers will guide you through the process of specifying a customized
sensor solution.
Honeywell Sensotec offers the most sophisticated and extensive
Custom Engineering capabilities in the test and measurement industry
and allows us to expand the product range “outside the catalog”.
Our customer specials products program works because we have an
internal company process and people culture that can respond to
small batch sizes. At Honeywell Sensotec all the design, manufacturing,
assembly, testing and calibration are done in house. This enables
Honeywell Sensotec to have complete control over the design and
manufacturing process. Our in-house manufacturing, flexible designs
and technologies are structured to support this extensive custom
engineering program. Whether you need a simple modification of a
standard product or complete customized engineering product, we
are organized to accommodate your special request.
Our Custom Engineering Capability can be broken down into the following
categories:
• Fast Delivery Custom Configurable Sensors
• Minor modifications to standard
catalog products
• Major modifications to standard
catalog products
• Special custom-built sensors
based on Honeywell Sensotec’s sensor
technology
Fast delivery custom-built sensors
Many of the pressure sensors and load cells that we build today
are built-up (all welded) from groups of pre-engineered and pre-tested
subassemblies with over 25,000 specification possibilities from
just the FP2000 Series Pressure Sensors alone.
The modular design of many of these sensors allows the customer
to have the flexibility of selecting a modified standard, or a custom
sensor configured from standard components.
The manufacture of the FP2000 series pressure sensors start with
the completion of the FP2000 configurator. The configurator is sent
directly to one of the FP2000 manufacturing cells. The manufacturing
cell is completely self contained. All of the subassemblies for
each of the 49 different configurations (that’s 25,000 different
permutations) are stored in bins at the cell and are constantly
replenished. The cell technician kits the parts, assembles the sensors,
welds them, tests them and packs the units ready for fast delivery.
Custom Specials
If the Fast Delivery Customer Configurable Sensors do not meet
your specific applications requirements then help is at hand.
The flexible building block design concept of our elements, housings,
and electrical interface shells provide Honeywell Sensotec with
hundreds of varieties of load cells, pressure sensors, LVDT’s, torque
cells and instrumentation to meet your demanding measurement applications.
Honeywell Sensotec has produced so many modified standard units
over the years that it is entirely likely that the engineering and
prototyping for your unit is
done. This also applies to units that mix specifications from various
standard or competitive products to achieve the perfect mix of performance
capabilities your application demands.
Honeywell Sensotec also engineers and manufactures sensors based
on existing transducers, be it a minor or a major modification.
In addition Honeywell Sensotec also produces many build from scratch
load cells. Whichever path is ultimately chosen this process starts
with a very experienced, highly technical sales team. Our sales
engineers visit hundreds of applications every year and they are
prepared to quickly understand your special needs and then communicate
them accurately and swiftly to our design team.
Honeywell Sensotec’s s concurrent engineering approach brings
both design and manufacturing engineers into the development process
immediately. They have their own full-equipped lab and model shop
to speed along the design and prototype phases of your transducer.
The fact that our design engineer’s average 20 years of transducer
design experience also helps speed the process along! As the design
of your transducer is finalized, it moves through our computerized
CAD/CAM system directly to our fully automated, state of the art,
machining centers. This computer-aided approach, coupled with the
relentless pursuit of excellence by our skilled manufacturing personnel
gives you standard product quality on your special transducer.
Minor modifications to standard catalog products
The Catalog starts as the basis for most discussions on special
sensors and systems. A Sales Engineer or an Inside Sales Engineer
will guide you through the process of specifying the special content
of the order and the manufacturing will often be based on the PEP
(pre engineered parts) program that is in place at Honeywell Sensotec
to speed delivery of sensors with special content.
Major Modifications to standard catalog products
The Catalog again starts as the basis for discussions but often
a design engineer will be part of a conference call to assist in
drawing up a detailed specification against which product will be
designed and manufactured.
Designed and Built from Scratch Sensors and Systems
These systems are based on our core competencies of silicon strain
gauge, foil strain gauge, wireless telemetry, strain gauge signal
conditioning, LVDT’s, piezoelectric sensors, RTD’s, thermocouple
and pressure and load cell calibration technology.
The process starts with a meeting where the design specification,
a final test specification and design and manufacture timeline is
drawn up and subsequently approved. A Project Engineer is assigned
and the customer is updated on the project progress from design
to delivery. Custom engineering is a true partnership between Honeywell
Sensotec and its customers. |
