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DECEMBER 2006 NEWS

 

QTC Acquired by Scale Components

QTC is a prominent supplier of service and accredited calibration of laboratory balances, precision scales, microscopes and assorted laboratory equipment predominately in Queensland, Northern NSW, Northern Territory, and the Asian and Pacific Islands.

According to Scale Components , the acquisition of QTC is in line with the overall strategy of the group and brings Calibration Services a step closer to becoming the leading supplier of calibration services as well as test and measurement equipment in Australasia.

Nick Shertock, formerly the Director of QTC, has extensive experience and expertise in this field and will join Calibration Services as a key employee to ensure that the high level of quality services provided will continue. Nick will provide support to Service Manager and his team, to ensure that current and future customer and corporate expectations are met.

As an associate company of Scale Components, Calibration Services provides quality service and calibration to customers Australia wide. The acquisition of QTC will not only enable our pricing to remain competitive, but CS will also offer sales of an extensive range of laboratory balances, precision scales, testing machines and other assorted test and measurement equipment.

In addition CS is focusing its attention to other fields of accreditation with NATA to become a single source provider for many of the customers. This will complement the existing NATA accreditation for Scales and Balances. The value to CS clients is in being offered a more cost effective solution to minimise the number of external contractors used.

Visit Scale Components at www.scalecomponents.com for more company information.

 

New Calibration Lab for Alba Power Station

A BD100,000 ($26,527) calibration laboratory to better measure and control its sophisticated instruments has been commissioned by Alba Power Station. The Alba Power Station (located in Manama, Bahrain) is currently involved in an aluminum smelting project.

The new lab, the first of its kind in the country, is in line with Alba's commitment to staying abreast with the latest technology available to ensure that the smelter remains among the most efficient in the world, said officials.

'The new lab is one of a series of many new different projects that were approved by the executive management to further improve the power department to even higher levels of excellence,' said the Alba power general manager Mahmood Asghar.

'Alba has already invested more than BD24 million over the past 15 years to ensure it remains compliant with even the most stringent of international environmental standards.

'The new lab marks a major transition for the power department and for Alba at large because it saves significant cost, time and effort, ensures quality, and increases efficiency in calibration and, subsequently, maintenance of equipment and instrumentation.

'These are essential factors for the production process and must be maintained at excellent levels of performance.'

The new project supports the equipment in Power Stations 3 and 4 by making them compliant with the latest technology through an automated system linked directly with the computer, said the new lab manager Amin Sultan.

'The working team who commissioned it received special training in Finland and on the site,' he said.

Visit http://www.tradearabia.com/msn/article.asp?Article=116185&Sn=IND for more information.

 

Temperature Calibration Laboratory at Endress+Hauser

Instrumentation specialist, Endress+Hauser, recently launched a new laboratory within its existing Wetzer facility that is dedicated to the calibration and documentation of the TMR 31 and TMR 35 compact thermometers.

The TMR 31 and TMR 35 compact thermometers are used mainly in the brewery and food and beverage industries and are capable of a temperature range of -50 to 200°C.

Endress+Hauser's focus on value added services is nowhere more evident than its extensive testing and laboratory facilities. The Production Centre Wetzer in Nesselwang, Germany, is a temperature instrumentation testing centre, testing devices that are in use as well as newly developed products.

According to Endress+Hauser product manager: Temperature, Trevor Fletcher, this facility is an added advantage for customers.

"All our temperature devices can be expertly calibrated and accreditation to this effect is supplied. Essentially, what this means for our customers is that they are assured of receiving the best quality, most reliable devices for their applications. Not many companies have world-class resources like this so it is a definite benefit for customers."

The new laboratory at Wetzer employs the comparison calibration technique whereby the device to be measured and an accurate reference thermometer are placed together in a closed volume or room. This provides a constant and homogenous environment where scientists can compare the values generated.

"The lab uses fixed points of measurement, cardinal points which are determined using either a lab standard or specific customer requirements. Once the points are determined, the product is tested using a medium and a reference device that compares the temperature of the product to the standard," says Fletcher.

The Endress+Hauser laboratory utilises alcohol or silicon oil mediums, and a temperature calibration bath from Hart Scientific 7341 with ethylene glycol for the 20 to 90°C range and a measurement security of 350 mK.

For temperatures of 70 to 660°C Endress+Hauser uses a fluid powder bath with aluminium compensation blocks from Isotech, while temperatures from -80 to 1100°C are tested at the fully accredited Endress+Hauser Sicestherm laboratory.

For more information contact Trevor Fletcher, Endress+Hauser, +27 (0) 11 262 8000, info@za.endress.com

 

Elektra 'Product of the Year' award for 2006

Tektronix, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, announced that the DPO4000 Digital Phosphor Oscilloscope received the Elektra 'Product of the Year' award for 2006. Winners were announced at a black tie Gala Awards dinner, organized by Electronics Weekly, at Electronica in Munich.

Now in their 4th year, the Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards recognize excellence, innovation and achievements in the electronics industry. An independent panel of industry experts, including representatives from companies, trade bodies and academia as well as editors from Electronics Weekly, look for evidence of setting challenging objectives, outstanding achievements and innovation and achievement. The 15 award categories are designed to promote best practice in key areas, including customer care, sales growth, innovation and employee motivation.

"The DPO4000 Digital Phosphor Oscilloscope was the clear winner in the 'Product of the Year' category. It stood out from the rest of the shortlist for the way it addresses a specific engineering need -- the pressing debug needs of embedded systems design engineers," said Richard Wilson, Editor, Electronics Weekly. "The design was clearly a result of well targeted research which led to the product itself offering a number of unique selling points and setting a new standard for the test and measurement industry."

"Customers have told us how much the DPO4000 is helping them to reduce the time and effort involved in finding and solving design problems," said Bob Bluhm, Vice President and General Manager, Value Scope Product Line, Tektronix. "We're honored to receive industry recognition in the form of the prestigious Elektra Product of the Year Award. With many industry firsts, the DPO4000 is a truly leadership product that sets new standards for productivity, performance, value and ease-of-use. The DPO4000 actually transforms how our customers work."

The DPO4000 portable oscilloscope family ranges from 350 MHz to 1 GHz and is the first to offer the groundbreaking Wave Inspector(TM), an unprecedented set of easy-to-use tools for discovery and efficient viewing, navigating, and analyzing waveform data. With Wave Inspector, serial triggering, protocol decode, USB plug-and-play PC connectivity, a 10.4" XGA display, and smallest footprint in its class, the new portable DPO4000 simplifies debug and meets the pressing debug needs of embedded systems design engineers.

Visit Tektronix at www.tektronix.com for more company and product information.

 


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