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La industria de sensores en Colombia
Authors: Angélica Mercedes Nivia Vargas, Iván Jaramillo Jaramillo
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Context: Colombia is a massive consumer of elec-tronic products, especially primary elements such as sensors, but it does not have the tools to produce them. The sensors, necessary elements for the reali-zation of a process, become essential for the installa-tion of any production initiative.
Method: This paper makes a diagnosis and perspec-tive of the sensor industry in Colombia, framed in the first stage of the Master’s thesis entitled “Sen-sor production strategy for the Colombian industrial sector.” For that purpose, an environment analysis is made (Román, 2016), and a relationship between the environment and the manufacture of electronic devices in Colombia is established
Results: It is possible to identify some distincti-ve aspects of the industry, such as the economic sectors in which companies most use sensors, the identification of the most measured variables, and particularly which sensors are the most used to me-asure these variables. Additionally, it was possible to determine which are the main suppliers of sen-sors in Colombia.
Conclusions: Based on the investigation, it was con-cluded that the sensors that measure temperature and pressure have the highest demand in the indus-trial sector, and that the largest number of sensor consuming companies belong to the manufacturing sector.