2021-05-13

How Force Sensitive Resistor Can Benefits Business?

Post by Allen Huang, Updated on May 13th, 2021


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    With current days technology, it is about making days easier and to be more productive. This don’t just apply on individuals, but also businesses. It can benefit in three ways – beforehand, present, and future reference. With integrated FSR sensor within business workflow, reminder can be set up in advanced, allowing enough time to take action. Business owner can also consider it as a tool to acknowledge the status of the workflow in live to minimal risk of incident or dealt with the event immediately. With the collected data, it helps business owner to further understand how and where need to be adjust, and even provides valuable reference when decision making. The application for FSR sensor is borderless across industries due to its flexibility, functionality, and customize availability. It can fit in from large scale manufacturer to garage base ecommerce inventory storage. FSR sensor can be a solution for businesses that seek to improve their productivity and efficiency.

 

How FSR benefits Production monitoring?

manufacture production line

 

    In manufacturing, production line is one of the most valuable assets for the business, any deviation can lead to profit lost. Proper monitoring can lower the risk of burst events. With shunt mode FSR, it can be integrating on mechanical motion equipment. For fluid equipment, it can integrate thru mode FSR on fluid tube that detects pressure through the fluid movement of inflated tube. With constantly monitoring its functionality fluency, operator can aware abnormal behavior right away and take immediate actions. At the same time, it can count the usage of the equipment. By setting up its maintenance cycle, the system can suggest or alert operator to take action when close to its maintenance period. Additionally, production line efficiency reflects profit margin and asset management. With the data withdraw from production line, business owner can analysis whether the workflow and asset capacity are efficient or not then make adjustment through the results of the data.

 

How FSR benefits inventory management?

warehouse inventory management

 

    With integrating FSR, business owner can easily aware the status of their inventories. From large scale warehouse to single shelve case, FSR has the availability to customize with specific needs and not just about size, but also its pressure sensing range. With thru mode FSR, it feedbacks precise signal when light pressure varies. It suits for inventories with small items or components. By layout FSR sensor underneath inventory, system will constantly be receiving data of its current pressure. Operator can set an alert when inventory is close to safe volume and start the restock process on its required schedule. Additionally, inventory flow can also be a tool for business owner to analysis market demands, such as current trending, usage curve, and slow mover. It is a data that can help with business’ decision making and enhance inventory management to a more efficient way.

 

Conclusion

    As what was mentioned, is only the tip of iceberg. FSR sensor have much more to offer. It depends on what the business owner require. Through its flexibility advantage, FSR sensor can easier adjust its functionality in a business layout. At the same time, it works passively. It goes along with original workflow and assist to remind ahead, and alert in instant. With monitoring workflow and collecting data, it provides valuable reference for business owner to make decision more accurate and the feedback can also be instantly. At last, I haven’t mentioned it is a low-cost and low-energy consumption solution that fits various scale of business and environmentally friendly. And now I have.

 

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