35 Measurement & Inspection Sensor Manufacturers in 2023
This section provides an overview for measurement & inspection sensors as well as their applications and principles. Also, please take a look at the list of 35 measurement & inspection sensor manufacturers and their company rankings. Here are the top-ranked measurement & inspection sensor companies as of June, 2023: 1.Hybrid Electronics, 2.SensoPart Inc., 3.Onexia, Inc..
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What is a length measurement sensor?
A length measuring sensor is a device that measures dimensions by irradiating a laser or other light source onto an object to be measured and capturing the amount of light emitted by the object as it shuts off the laser or other light source.
By shaping the laser or other light into a band, the sensor detects whether or not the light has reached the light-receiving part, and accurately measures the dimensions of the part where the light has not reached, thereby performing dimensional measurement.
Since this system uses light from a laser or other source, it has the advantage of non-contact measurement, but it also has the disadvantage of being relatively susceptible to external disturbances.
Applications of Length Measuring Sensors
Length measuring sensors are used to continuously measure the thickness of sheet-like objects such as film, or the outer diameter of long, thin objects with circular cross-sections such as wire. The sensor is placed in a straight line and scanned continuously.
The length measuring sensor can also be used in a variety of applications, such as measuring dimensions in the XY direction by using length measuring sensors in a straight line, or measuring one end face of an object with a large cross-sectional shape by using two or more length measuring sensors.
Principle of Length Measuring Sensor
Length measuring sensors mainly use lasers to measure the dimensions of objects. The laser is irradiated parallel to the measurement axis, and the sensor measures the dimensions by detecting the width of both edges as edges where the laser is blocked. Therefore, the sensor is divided into a light-emitting part that emits a laser and a light-receiving part that reads the emitted laser, and a display part that displays the measured values is also required.
Since the distance from one end to the other end of the area where the laser is blocked by the object to be measured must be accurately read, the laser must be in the shape of a strip or rectangle with a wide width. The light receiving part that reads the laser must be able to continuously read the laser and the part that is not in one section, so CCD line sensors are often used. The scanning interval for reading edges and measuring dimensions depends on the processing speed of the display unit, but scanning can be done at 0.1-second intervals, allowing accurate measurement even if the object to be measured swings slightly.
List of 35 Measurement & Inspection Sensor Manufacturers
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Onexia, Inc.
Distance Measuring Sensors
Company Overview
ONExia Inc is based in Exton, Pennsylvania and is a robotics integrator, custom machine builder, and industrial distributor. ONExia specializing in manual process automation and assists manufacturers of all sizes increase throughput with cutting edge technology. ONExia works with customers to develop turnkey custom machines including 2D & 3D vision system integration, software design & development, and machine safety services. ONExia uses robotics to automate line packaging. ONExia also offers robot palletizers that are compatible with new or existing packaging lines.
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Diamond Technologies, Inc.
Distance Measuring Sensors
Company Overview
Diamond Technologies was founded in 1997 and is based in Hudson, Massachusetts and is a custom designer and engineer for data collection automation, and industrial communications. Diamond Technologies’s automation solutions segment offers OEMs and other customers system configuration, component selection, verification of compatibility, review of power requirements, software development, and other services. Data collection includes integration of data collection equipmpent, maintained OEM delivery, pre-programmed barcode, RFID, or embedded data collection components, OEM labeling, and others.
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RIEGL USA, Inc.
Distance Measuring Sensors
Company Overview
Riegl USA Inc., established in 1978, is headquartered in Winter Garden, Florida, and is a manufacturer of 3D laser scanners. Their product range includes airborne, mobile, industrial, and terrestrial laser scanners, mobile mapping systems, and laser distance meters. RIEGL's software packages are provided along with the scanners, designed for different applications from optimizing the acquisition workflow in the field, via providing tools for data control, right to providing functions for data processing. Riegl USA Inc. holds ISO 9001:2015 certification, providing surveying solutions to various industries such as land surveying, construction, mining, forestry, and transportation
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SensoPart Inc.
Distance Measuring Sensors
Company Overview
SensoPart, Inc. was founded in 1994 and headquartered in Germany with US operations based out of Bingham Farms, Michigan. The ISO 9001:2015 certified manufacturing company serves the automotive, robotics, plastics, solar, and other industries with photoelectric sensors and image processing products. The company’s products include optical sensors, vision sensors, ultrasonic sensors, inductive sensors, and accessories. Together they are used in manufacturing detection & inspection, product identification, a diverse array of measuring tasks, product positioning, and color detection.
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Monitor Technologies, LLC
Distance Measuring Sensors
Company Overview
Monitor Technologies LLC was founded by George Gruber in Port Sanilac, Michigan in 1958. The ISO 9001-certified company is a manufacturer of indicators and control equipment for industries including plastic processing, cement & aggregates, feed processing, grain processing, and food processing. The company sells domestically and internationally through authorized representatives. The company’s products include point level indicators & controls, dust leak indicators & particulate emission trend monitors, inventory management software, and various flow measurement devices.
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Capacitec, Inc.
Distance Measuring Sensors
Company Overview
Capacitec, Inc. was founded in the mid-1980s and is headquartered in Ayer, Massachusetts. The company is an ISO 9001:2008-certified designer and manufacturer of non-contact capacitive displacement sensors, gap sensors, bore probes, and parallelism measurements, which include capacitive amplifiers and data acquisition systems. The company designs custom amplifiers and software for OEM applications and end-users across the aerospace, automotive, power generation, cryogenic, and semiconductor industries. The company’s devices have advantages including small capacitive sensor size, electrostatic discharge protection, internal power supplies, and ruggedness to service extreme temperatures, high radiation, and strong magnetic fields.
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Exsenco, LLC - US division for Santest Co.
Distance Measuring Sensors
Company Overview
EXSENCO, LLC., is based in Corpus Christi, Texas. EXSENCO is the American distributor for SANTET, Co. Ltd, which is a manufacturer of sensing and controls products based in Osaka, Japan. EXSENCO offers consultancy in the general area of control systems to provide clients with technology that adapts itself to changes in the workplace, rather than the workplace adapting to changes in technology. EXSENCO’s product segments include displacement & level measurement, servo valves, I-SAC servo controllers, and other products.
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Optris Infrared Sensing, LLC
Distance Measuring Sensors
Company Overview
Optris Infrared Sensing, LLC was established in 2003 and is headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The company is a developer and manufacturer of infrared measurement technology for glass, plastics, automotive, semiconductor, and related industries. The company’s product program covers portable thermometers, fixed industrial thermometers, and infrared cameras. The company’s services include machine calibration services, repair services, 24 month's guarantee on service, and, certification of calibration to document the accuracy of the IR sensor or thermal imager.
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Hybrid Electronics
Distance Measuring Sensors
Company Overview
Hybrid Electronics is a global distribution specialist of electronic components, with access to over 50 million unique components. Among the markets HE serves are the aerospace, automotive, communications, defense, industrial, medical, national security, and test & measurement industries. In addition to components, HE also provides quality and compliance testing, counterfeit detection, upscreening, and other forms of quality control. Examples of component subtypes that HE offers include ICs, batteries, capacitors, semiconductor products, sensors, circuit protection, interconnectors, filters, optoelectronics, relays, switches, power supplies, and cables and cable assemblies.
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Twittlebit.com
Distance Measuring Sensors
Company Overview
Twittlebit.com is located in Lexington, Kentucky. Twittlebit is a distributor of industrial equipment and components divided into 8 sub-stores including: sensors, HMI & PLC, visual & audio , panel components, and pneumatic & vacuum. The company offers next day delivery to Kentucky and neighboring states, and 2-to-3-day delivery to most other states of in-stock products. The company offers in-stock selection of many top brands such as Autonics, EEControls, Panasonic, and Cembre. The company can also in-source many hard to find products directly from Japan from companies such as IDEC, Canon, Omron, and Fuji Electric in 7-to-10-days.
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AutomationDirect
Distance Measuring Sensors
Company Overview
AutomationDirect.com was founded in 1994 to provide solutions for the industrial automation market and has been growing its list of offerings ever since. AutomationDirects’ extensive catalog includes individual components such as cables, various controls, I/O devices, relays, gauges, fittings, and sensors to complete systems. Many parts and devices, especially PLC units are customizable. AutomationDirect.com also provides support via video instructions, online manuals, a learning library, an active community forum to further assist customers.
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Micro-Epsilon
Sensor for displacement, distance & position
Company Overview
Micro-Epsilon was originally founded in Osaka and Micro-Epsilon America was founded in 1998, headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. Micro-Epsilon develops, manufactures, and distributes sensors to aerospace, battery production, glass production, wind power, precision optics, medical technology, transportation, semiconductor, and other industries. Micro-Epsilon’s sensor product categories include inductive, capacitive, laser, confocal, laser distance, magneto-inductive, draw-wire, rotation speed, color, paint thickness measurement, and fiber optic sensors in addition to interferometers and other sensor equipment.
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Red Lion
Length sensor (Wheeled sensor)
Company Overview
Red Lion was founded in 1972 and headquartered in York, Pennsylvania as part of Spectris, PLC, headquartered in Egham, England. The company serves manufacturing, oil & gas, alternative energy, transportation, and water industries with products for their industrial automation and industrial networking needs. The company’s industrial automation division creates controllers, secure remote access platforms, panel meters, and process control devices. The industrial networking division offers ethernet devices, IIoT gateways and routers, and communication converters.
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Baumer
Cable pull encoder
Company Overview
Baumer Electric AG was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in the city of Frauenfeld, Switzerland. The ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certified company provides sensor solutions for digitalization, packaging, railway, food and beverage, and pharmaceutical industries. A sample of the company’s sensor product listings includes object detection, distance measurement, force sensors, accessories, and connectivity devices. The company offers product support for setup and installation, product functionality, and optimized product usage.
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ifm efector, inc.
Distance sensor
Company Overview
ifm efector (ifm) is a subsidiary of ifm electronic, founded in Germany in 1969. ifm has developed, manufactured and marketed sensors and controls technology to industries that include assembly and robotics, automotive, material handling, metal forming, mobile equipment, plastics, and food and beverage. Ifm produces sensors, condition monitoring equipment, image processing, safety technology, industrial communication, IO-link, systems for mobile machines, displays, software, connection technology, voltage supplies, as well as other accessories.
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Pepperl+Fuchs Inc.
Distance sensor
Company Overview
Pepperl+Fuchs, Inc. was founded in Mannheim, Germany in 1945 developing the forerunner of the proximity switch. Pepperl+Fuchs continues to develop proximity sensors as well as other industrial sensors including ultrasonic sensors, rotary encoders, positioning systems, display and signal processing, vibration monitoring, industrial communication, and signal processing as well as related accessories and software. Explosive protection products include safety barriers, surge protection, wireless solutions, HMI systems, power supplies, electrical explosion protection equipment, level measurement, and related software.
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Mod-Tronic Instruments Limited
Distance Measuring Sensors
Company Overview
MOD-TRONIC Instruments Limited was established in 1972 in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. MTis a distributor of industrial sensors, transducers, heaters, controls, and instrumentation, primarily made in the USA as well as Japan, Switzerland, and Germany. MT’s customers are primarily in the aerospace, building automation, manufacturing, medical, military, oil and gas, and water treatment industries but also serves individuals. MT offers an above industry standard 5-year warranty and technical support on every product sold.
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Mitutoyo
Laser scan micrometer
Company Overview
Mitutoyo was founded in 1934 and headquartered in Kawasaki City, Japan. The company is a manufacturer and seller of precision measuring instruments including software, optics, machinery, and electronics. The company is ISO/IEC 17025 accredited for calibration services for measuring instruments. The company’s product lines include Micrometers, Calipers, Calibration Equipment, Vision Measuring Systems, and many others. The company’s coordinate measuring machines and roundness/cylindricity measuring machines are sol in over 60 countries worldwide.
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Dr. D. Wehrhahn
Distance / thickness measurement system
Company Overview
Dr. D. Wehrhahn is a DIN EN ISO 9001 and DIN EN ISO 14001 certified manufacturer and supplier of measuring technology for measuring tasks solutions since 1994. Some of the products offered by Dr. D. Wehrhahn include non-contact one- and two-dimensional laser measuring systems such as OPTImess, OPTIscan, and OPTImess 2D. They also offer ultrasonic distance and thickness measuring systems, DELTA MASTER systems, PUR foam quality grading systems, and contacting thickness measuring systems. Additionally, they offer laser measurement for non-contact distance measurement, digital and analog measurements, and two-dimensional acquisition.
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Datalogic
Distance sensor
Company Overview
Datalogic was founded in 1972 along the outskirts of Bologna, Italy. The company is a manufacturer of scanning and optical devices for industries such as retail, manufacturing, transportation & logistics, and healthcare. The company’s product lines include fixed and handheld scanners for retail and industrial purposes, vehicle-mounted computers and handheld computers, laser marking systems, and other industrial scanners and data-sensing machines. The company offers aftercare services including ease of care service.
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RIEGL Laser Measurement Systems
Industrial laser scanner
Company Overview
RIEGL Laser Measurement Systems, headquartered in Horn, Austria, is a manufacturer and provider of laser scanning solutions for applications in surveying. They produce LiDAR systems commercially and focus on pulsed time-of-flight laser radar technology in multiple wavelengths. RIEGL’s products include airborne laser scanners, UAV-based laser scanners, terrestrial laser scanners, mobile laser scanners, and industrial laser scanners. These laser scanners provide detailed and accurate 3D data for applications such as topography, mining, as-built surveying, architecture, and more. They also offer software packages that are designed to optimize the acquisition workflow in the field and provide tools for data control and processing.
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OMRON Industrial Automation
Measurement sensor
Company Overview
OMRON Industrial Automation is the UK branch of OMRON, originally founded in Japan in 1933. OMRON Industrial Automation serves food and beverage industry, panel board design, automotive manufacturing industries among others. OMRON Industrial Automation products categories include automation systems such as industrial PCs and human machine interfaces (HMI), safety such as safety switches and safety logic control systems, switching components such as solid state relays, motion & drives such as motion controllers, sensing such as photoelectric sensors, software, robotics, quality control & inspection systems, as well as control components including power supplies and digital panel indicators.
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Company Overview
Kempf GmbH & Co. KG, founded in 1988 is a measuring and control systems provider and manufacturer that is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany. One of their products is the LMC-J-0040-X, an optoelectronic laser distance-measuring device. Kempf GmbH & Co. KG offers laser distance measuring systems and solutions for defined positioning, distance determination, dimensioning, and level monitoring under complex technical requirements and harsh environmental conditions. They offer laser technology for detecting length, with laser-based industrial measuring systems used for controlling production processes.
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Curtiss-Wright Corporation
INDUSTRIAL SENSORS
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wenglorMEL
Laser distance sensor
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Measurement & Inspection Sensor Manufacturer Ranking
*Including some distributors, etc.Ranking as of June 2023 in United States of America
Derivation Method| Rank | Company | Click Share |
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| 1 | Hybrid Electronics | 14.3% |
| 2 | SensoPart Inc. | 14.3% |
| 3 | Onexia, Inc. | 14.3% |
| 4 | RIEGL USA, Inc. | 7.1% |
| 5 | Twittlebit.com | 7.1% |
| 6 | Capacitec, Inc. | 7.1% |
| 7 | Diamond Technologies, Inc. | 7.1% |
| 8 | Optris Infrared Sensing, LLC | 7.1% |
| 9 | Mod-Tronic Instruments Limited | 7.1% |
| 10 | Exsenco, LLC - US division for Santest Co. | 7.1% |
| 11 | burster | 7.1% |
Ranking as of June 2023 Globally
Derivation Method| Rank | Company | Click Share |
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| 1 | Onexia, Inc. | 6.4% |
| 2 | Hybrid Electronics | 6.4% |
| 3 | SensoPart Inc. | 6.4% |
| 4 | burster | 4.3% |
| 5 | Exsenco, LLC - US division for Santest Co. | 4.3% |
| 6 | Mod-Tronic Instruments Limited | 4.3% |
| 7 | Optris Infrared Sensing, LLC | 4.3% |
| 8 | RIEGL USA, Inc. | 4.3% |
| 9 | Capacitec, Inc. | 4.3% |
| 10 | Diamond Technologies, Inc. | 4.3% |
| 11 | Red Lion | 2.1% |
| 12 | Datalogic | 2.1% |
| 13 | Micro-Epsilon | 2.1% |
| 14 | Baumer | 2.1% |
| 15 | Curtiss-Wright Corporation | 2.1% |
| 16 | MultiDimension Technology | 2.1% |
| 17 | MEGATRON | 2.1% |
| 18 | Pepperl+Fuchs Inc. | 2.1% |
| 19 | Pulsotronic | 2.1% |
| 20 | BECOM | 2.1% |
| 21 | OMRON Industrial Automation | 2.1% |
| 22 | Applied Measurements | 2.1% |
| 23 | Gefran | 2.1% |
| 24 | Fiessler Elektronik | 2.1% |
| 25 | wenglorMEL | 2.1% |
| 26 | RIEGL Laser Measurement Systems | 2.1% |
| 27 | Kempf | 2.1% |
| 28 | ASTECH | 2.1% |
| 29 | Dr. D. Wehrhahn | 2.1% |
| 30 | Twittlebit.com | 2.1% |
| 31 | Monitor Technologies, LLC | 2.1% |
| 32 | AutomationDirect | 2.1% |
| 33 | Position Control | 2.1% |
| 34 | ifm efector, inc. | 2.1% |
Derivation Method
The ranking is calculated based on the click share within the measurement & inspection sensor page as of June 2023. Click share is defined as the total number of clicks for all companies during the period divided by the number of clicks for each company.Number of Employees
- Datalogic: 2,900
- Gefran: 900
- burster: 150
Newly Established Company
- MultiDimension Technology: 2010 (13 years ago)
- Applied Measurements: 1991 (32 years ago)
- Kempf: 1988 (35 years ago)
Company with a History
- Baumer: 1952 (71 years ago)
- Fiessler Elektronik: 1956 (67 years ago)
- MEGATRON: 1960 (63 years ago)
