The shifting of the industrial revolution to Industry 4.0 is rapidly making smart automation essential in manufacturing technologies and industrial practices. Automation transformation incorporates sensor-embedded smart machines that analyze and process data with fast interconnectivity without human intervention. PixArt, with its leading sensing technologies, is furnishing traditional industrial machines with sensors, adding the intelligence facets to the shift of smart machines. The newly launched sensors in the Optical Tracking Sensor and Optical Encoder product series unleash intelligent sensing into the motion control of manufacturing machines and production equipment to empower industrial automation.

Various sensors take over human interaction for a fully automated system to detect the instant event or measure the desired data. Then they give feedback to the host controller to regulate the process output accordingly. The Optical Tracking Sensor and Optical Encoder are mutually comprehending in the closed-loop motion control systems, providing more accurate, precise, and reliable control. These sensors return the position or velocity of the motor, actuator, and moving surfaces to the motion controller as closed-loop feedback.