Sensors
Get the station back. Source the sensor in seconds.
Inductive, photoelectric, ultrasonic, and capacitive sensors live across SICK, IFM, Balluff, Pepperl+Fuchs, Turck, Omron, Keyence, and Allen-Bradley — and a single conveyor goes down because the production line can't read a M18 PNP NO from a photo. Specsmith reads the body, lands the verified MPN + form factor + wiring, and routes a verified supplier with stock today, so the sensor comes back before the next cycle.
The bench problem
01Cross-vendor proliferation
SICK, IFM, Balluff, P+F, Turck, Omron, Keyence, and AB all ship the same M18 inductive proxy with different pinouts. Specsmith's cross-vendor catalog reads the body, lands the matching SKU, and walks a verified drop-in across vendor boundaries — so the next rebuild finds a sensor, not a phone-and-email round.
02Form factor + pinout confusion
M12, M18, and M30 sensors look identical to a phone camera at arm's length, but a 4-pin vs 3-pin mismatch keeps the line down for hours. /xref/<mpn> joins an MPN against its verified form factor + pinout family, so the bench never carries the wrong mating connector back to the panel.
03PNP/NPN + NO/NC variants
The same housing ships in PNP NO, PNP NC, NPN NO, and NPN NC variants, and the line stops when the wrong logic level lands. Specsmith pins the wiring code from the photo and routes a verified drop-in with the same logic family — so the PLC sees the same edge it saw before the breakdown.
Product preview
Photo of the sensor → MPN + form factor + verified supplier in <2s.
The same Identify workflow that runs the homepage, pinned to the sensor body — read the label, land the matched MPN with form factor and wiring, and source the verified spare without leaving the panel.
Commonly referenced sensors
Four sensor SKUs teams reach for every week — each link routes you into the live /catalog page.
Sensor teams on Specsmith
What crews on packaging lines and pallet cells say.
We rebuilt a 871TM proximity line in an afternoon with a single phone photo. Specsmith landed the matching sensor with a verified supplier before the maintenance window closed.
Our SICK line was out for a quarter and we had IFM stockroom surplus on the shelf. Specsmith surfaced a verified SICK→IFM cross-manufacturer substitute and the line came back the same shift.
Our OEM build lines hit a 98% sensor fill rate after Specsmith — instead of cycling between three vendors, the warehouse pulls one part with a verified photo match.
Stop hunting the right sensor by hand.
Free tier covers your first batch. Premium rolls the workflow out across the bench.