Sensor System Solutions, Inc. (3S) engages in the manufacture and assembly of sensors and micro systems. The company’s products include thin film sensors, thin film pressure sensors and micro machined pressure sensors, and micro systems that may include sensors, signal conditioning circuits, LCD display, computer interface and molded housing specifically designed to the customers needs.
Products
The company produces or supplies a family of approximately 30 distinctive products. These products...
Sensor System Solutions, Inc. (3S) engages in the manufacture and assembly of sensors and micro systems. The company’s products include thin film sensors, thin film pressure sensors and micro machined pressure sensors, and micro systems that may include sensors, signal conditioning circuits, LCD display, computer interface and molded housing specifically designed to the customers needs.
Products
The company produces or supplies a family of approximately 30 distinctive products. These products employ or utilize the latest technologies. The products are primarily electro-mechanical sensing devices and are identified under the following categories: Pressure Transducers, Pressure Transmitters, Pressure Switches, Force Sensors, Load Cells, Strain Gages and MEMS Sensors. The company is in the process of expanding product offering to include intelligent embedded systems that combine the attributes of both intelligent sensor and host systems.
The company uses sputtered thin film, bonded foil, semi-conductor gages and piezoresistive strain gage technologies primarily in the design, development and manufacture of its general sensor products, although other technology options are also available.
Subsidiaries
Advanced Custom Sensors, Inc. (ACSI): The company, through ACSI, offers a variety of digital pressure gauges, pressure transducers, pressure sensors, force beams, load cells, intelligent sensor interface electronics, intelligent embedded control systems, and wireless communication network interfaces. 3S produces or supplies a family of approximately 30 distinctive products. 3S is a supplier of thin-film and micro-machined force and pressure sensors to the medical, chemical, oil, and gas industries.
Joint Ventures
Universal Sensors, Inc.: In April 2005, the company, China Automotive Systems, Inc. (CAAS) and Shanghai Hongxi Investment, Inc. (HX) formed Universal Sensors, Inc. (USI), a joint venture in the People’s Republic of China to develop, produce and market sensor and related electronic products, targeting the Chinese automotive sensor market. 3S is in the process of transitioning to move its production line in Taiwan to this joint venture.
Customers
The company supplies its sensors mainly to the medical and automation industries. Its customers are divided into three groups: original equipment manufacturers, end users, and catalogs.
Competition
The company’s principal competitors include Honeywell, GE and MSI in the sensor component segment, and Delphi, Bosch and Denso in the automotive sensor segment.
History
Sensor System Solutions, Inc. was founded in 1996.