MTS Systems Corporation

The MTS Systems Corporation ( MTSC ) is a provider of test and simulation systems, and measurement and sensor technology with 2200 employees worldwide. The publicly listed NASDAQ company headquartered in Minneapolis (Minnesota). The company Sensor Technology has offices in Lüdenscheid, Cary (North Carolina) and Tokyo.

MTS Sensor Technologie

MTS Sensor Technologie is a German subsidiary of MTSC with headquarters in Lüdenscheid, the transducer and level sensors developed by the magnetostrictive position measurement for machine and plant construction, for the process and automation technology as well as for mobile hydraulic applications, manufactures and distributes. It has about 180 employees.

History

MTS Sensor Technologie GmbH was founded in 1989 from Hellwig in Lüdenscheid, Westphalia and since then belongs to the parent company MTSC. 1994, the company became the first officially the DIN ISO 9001:2000 certification.

Technology

The displacement transducers and level sensors from MTS Sensor Technologie use the principle of magnetostriction. Developed in 1970 by the physicist J. Tellerman for MTS a position measuring system, which works on the basis of magnetostriction: a decisive position permanent magnet acting on a (mostly rod-shaped ) measuring element through which a current pulse is passed. When the magnetic fields of the permanent magnets, and the current pulse coincide, is formed into a torsion, the constant speed running as an ultrasonic structure-borne sound wave at the ends of the waveguide. There it is converted into a distance-proportional signal and processed according to the desired output signal. The exact location determination results from a time of flight measurement, in which the magnet position is calculated from the time between the start of the current pulse and the arrival of the electric response signal of the detected in Torsionswandler body sound wave is determined. The magnetostrictive measuring principle operates reliably at resolutions down to 1 micron with a repeatability of 0.001%.

Products

MTS Sensor Technologie manufactures magnetostritiktive sensors for different applications:

  • Position sensors for industrial
  • Position Sensors for Mobile Hydraulics
  • Position sensors for the OEM market
  • Level sensors for
  • System solutions for
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