Development path: Mainly parts, sensors started

8440-2107  Development path of overseas manufacturers: The current torque sensor manufacturers are mainly divided into the development of torque sensors from traditional parts, or the development of torque sensor equipment manufacturers from weighing, torque, temperature and other sensors and strain gauges. Later, some aimed at the robot business and became a solution provider for collaborative robots.

Taking measurement solution integrators Interface and Baumer as an example, both sides started from manufacturing technology of components such as sensors and strain gauges such as weighing, torque and temperature. With the continuous development of industrial technology, they gave up the positioning of parts manufacturers. On the basis of the original technology, improve the testing, compensation calibration, control technology and product line of various indicators such as torque, pressure, temperature and acceleration, become a solution integrator, and continue to expand business to industrial automation, aerospace, construction, automotive and other fields. Torque sensor 8440-2107  manufacturers such as ATI, HBM and Optoforce are acquired by larger solution integrators and become the hardware technical support of the group: Since its establishment, HBM has focused on the manufacturing of components such as sensors such as torque and weighing and strain gauges, and later entered the force testing business in aerospace, automotive, rail transit and other fields as a hardware technology auxiliary group after acquisition and merger.

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Profiles of the main representative companies

Torque sensor manufacturers such as ATI, HBM and Opto force were acquired by larger solution integrators and became the hardware technology support within the group: Since its establishment, HBM has focused on the manufacturing of torque, weighing and other sensors and strain gauges, etc. In 2000, it was acquired by Spetris and merged with Br u el&Kjr to form HBK Company, as a hardware technology auxiliary group to enter the force testing business in aerospace, 8440-2107  automotive, rail transit and other fields. In 2018, Opto force merged with Perception Robotics and on robot to form the current on robot, becoming a collaborative robot solution integrator. ATI was acquired by NOVANTA in 2021 for $223.9 million as the technical support for the group’s expansion into industrial automation.