Maintenance, Test & Measurement, Calibration


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Efficient alternative to multiple instruments
August 2001
Fluke has announced the availability of its 39A universal waveform generator, which replaces the popular Model 39 and provides greater capability at no additional cost. This high-performance generator ...

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5U 20-slot industrial PC server
August 2001
Advantech's new SPC-530 5U 20-slot, industrial grade PC server features up to six front-access, half-height disk drives for mass storage requirements in general server applications. The server can use ...

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Noncontact thickness gauge for uncured powder coatings
August 2001, BAMR
Elcometer Instruments, specialists in coating process quality control for over fifty years, has a new powder coating thickness gauge the Elcometer 550. Using a novel, patented ultrasonic measurement principle, ...

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Making sense of e-manufacturing - Part VII: e-volution of the supply chain
July 2001, Rockwell Automation
The four enablers of design, operate, maintain, and synchronise competencies for a complete e-manufacturing strategy (integrated architecture, manufacturing information management, asset and reliability centred maintenance, and e-procurement) have several common characteristics

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Instrumentation specialist introduces full maintenance leasing
July 2001
A leading South African process instrumentation specialist, Endress+Hauser, believes it has redefined the way in which business will be conducted in its field by introducing the concept of full maintenance ...

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Materials testing equipment
July 2001
Opaque Reference Equipment, official representative for emco (innovation and competence dynamic measuring methods) is offering a selection of materials testing equipment. Some of the parameters measured ...

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Transmitters for various lab measurement parameters
July 2001
Three devices offered by Hanna Instruments for PH/ORP/RH/°C measurement are the HI 8614/14L, HI 8615/15L and HI 8666. Both the HI 8614/14L and the HI 8615/15L offer 4 to 20mA outputs, slope and offset ...

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Measurement and automation systems in the 21st century manufacturing enterprise
July 2001
The 20th century is characterised by a series of technological revolutions - the industrial revolution, the transportation revolution, and now the computer revolution, which is helping to modernise manufacturing ...

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Measuring residual chlorine without chemical reagents
July 2001
Optimal disinfection and minimal chlorine dosing is achieved by on-line measurement of residual chlorine. ATI's polargraphic membraned sensor measures residual chlorine directly, in most cases without ...

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48 standard timers in one
July 2001, Timecount
Forming part of the Red Box range of locally manufactured products from Timecount is a new multifunction, multirange timer which replaces 48 standard timers. A single PPI instrument can be used for a ...

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Light curtain accurate to within 2,5 m
May 2001, Turck Banner Southern Africa
Banner Engineering is offering the A-Gage high-resolution Mini-Array, a high density measuring light curtain designed to innovate complex inspection and profiling applications. The high-resolution Mini-Array ...

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Scopemeter brings productivity gains for the user
April 2001
Since its purchase of two Fluke 199 scopemeters from Spescom MeasureGraph earlier this year, Century Avionics has reported substantial savings in time and productivity, as well as the added convenience ...

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Calibrator improves Eskom's productivity in card repair section
April 2001
The purchase of two Fluke 743B calibrators in the Card Repair Services, a section within Eskom PTM (Witbank) has substantially improved productivity. Card Repair Services (CRS) uses the two Fluke calibrators ...

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Calibration manager application offers additional benefits
April 2001
AMS, (Asset Management Solutions) software from Fisher-Rosemount, has been successfully helping customers streamline daily maintenance activities, including calibration, and is now providing an easy way ...

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Reliable, tailored testing of one's own products - in realtime
March 2001
Traditionally, test instruments have been vendor-defined with a specific set of functions. With the revolution of virtual instrumentation, engineers may now define their own test systems to create solutions ...

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Testing program for airline's air starters
March 2001, TLC Engineering Solutions
TLC Software has designed a computer-based engineering solution program for airline fleets for testing air starters. The program captures data via RS232 serial communications with an Eskom TRI 5000 Datalogger ...

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Caesars Gauteng impressed with test equipment
March 2001
The Slots Department of Caesars Gauteng has been using Fluke instruments for only three months and remarkable results are already evident. The seven units, supplied by Spescom MeasureGraph, are used in ...

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Diagnostic insulation testing
February 2001
A major cause of equipment failure is breakdown of the insulation

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New temperature calibrator
February 2001
Spescom Measuregraph's Fluke 724 temperature calibrator, designed for process instrument technicians, is powerful but easy to use. Its measure and source functions can test and calibrate almost any temperature ...

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Loadcells exhibit long life
February 2001, Instrotech
In 1984 Instrotech installed six stainless steel Revere loadcells to weigh the yeast tanks at SA Breweries in Alrode. Sixteen years later the systems are still operating faultlessly which, according to ...

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