When you’re at home or at work, part of your routine is probably filling up a coffee maker with water. But what if you could get a coffee maker that automatically fills up with water for you? If you have …
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How Float Switches Impact Your Ice Machine
An ice machine seems pretty simplistic. It takes water and then cools it to turn it into ice. But how does the ice machine “know” how full it is? And how does that impact the size of your ice cubes? …
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Top 5 Ways Liquid Level Sensors Are Used In The Food Industry
Liquid level sensors are used in all sorts of applications, but did you know that they’re integral in the food industry? They can be found in everything from large bakeries to ice cream factories, and help make food production possible. …
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What You Need to Know About Liquid Level Sensors for Industrial Food Processing Equipment
What many don’t realize is, liquid level sensors are a crucial part of industrial food storage. Within this extensive setup, this part assists with controlling and monitoring temperature, liquid and foam levels, fluid flow, agitator speed, pressure, and weight. When you’re …
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Float Switches for Milking Equipment & Dairy Processing
Popular images of dairy farming include bucolic green pastures and farmers rising at the crack of dawn to milk a trusted old heifer into a tin bucket. In reality, the vast majority of today’s dairy farming is as modern and …
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Sensors for Craft Distillery and Micro-Distillery Equipment
America has been experiencing a huge surge in the popularity of craft and small-batch spirits coinciding with the craft beer boom. According to the American Craft Spirits Association, there are about 770 craft distilleries in the United States. That might not …
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Float Switches and Sensors for Lean Manufacturing
If you’re in the manufacturing industry in any capacity, you’re undoubtedly familiar with lean manufacturing principals: the elimination of waste across manufacturing processes by eliminating overburden and uneven workloads, maximizing process efficiency and using a minimum of materials. The goals …
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Liquid Level & Temperature Sensors for Sugar Refineries
The refinement of sugar cane or sugar beets into usable sugar results in the creation of molasses (sometimes “black treacle”) and magma, highly viscous byproducts that are sometimes used as ingredients in baking and cooking. As with all food processing …
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Temperature and Level Sensing for the Food and Beverage Industries
In the world of liquid media measurement, tools and devices are typically chosen due to their accuracy, compatibility with their operating conditions, durability, and a host of other concerns unique to every application. When it comes to food and beverage …
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Automated Aquaponics Systems: Technology, Design, & the Future of Food
Whether or not you’ve heard of aquaponics before, it’s likely you’ll be hearing a lot more about it before long. A combination of hydroponics (growing plants in water, without soil) and aquaculture (the farming of water creatures like fish and …
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