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Precision vibration and pressure calibration systems
Calibration solutions from The Modal Shop, sensor manufacturer PCB Piezotronics’ sister company, allow you to perform accurate transducer calibrations, ensuring the quality of your measurement data the first time. Both companies are dedicated to the metrology community and committed to delivering quality, performance and reliability in calibration
developing a plan that best suits your interests. As a team of test and measurement experts, PCB Piezotronics understands the inherent frustrations of a test that results in unexpected or unreliable data, a sensor that has passed its calibration date, or – worse yet – realising necessary sensors are out for calibration. The company also understands the uncertainty and questions that arise with unexpected test results and out of spec sensors. Calibrating in house, on your own system allows you to proactively address each of these issues. The 9155 Calibration Workstation from The Modal Shop, sister company of PCB Piezotronics, offers precise, efficient, automated accelerometer calibration, bringing control and confidence to your process. Have you ever thought, can accurate calibration
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be as simple as flipping a light switch? When you get home from a long day at the office, you step in the door and flick the lights on. Instantly, everything is illuminated. You do not need to think about how the electricity is routed to your home, how the power plant utilises their technology, or how they could improve their processes. All you need to do is flip the switch. PCB feels the same way about delivering a calibration solution to you. With a system from The Modal Shop, over twenty years of a proven (and then improved) products and processes offer you a solution used by companies around the globe. All you need to do is mount your sensor and start calibrating. In approximately a minute per axis, you will have calibrated your sensor, providing the data to ensure your next measurements. PCB takes care of your instrumentation while you focus on your own product development.
A Turnkey SySTeM ThAT reduCeS CoST The Accelerometer Calibration Workstation Model 9155 delivers accurate back-to-back comparison calibration of ICP (IEPE), charge mode, and piezoelectric accelerometers in accordance with ISO 16063-21: 2003. Options to calibrate
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re you calibrating after each test, annually, or less frequently? Familiarity with your current strategy is key to evaluating and
piezoresistive, capacitive, velocity, 4-20 mA, visual output (meters), and dynamic pressure sensors - as well as instrumented force hammers - are also available. A host of configurations include: Automated TEDS sensor updating Linearity check Low frequency calibration down to 0.1 Hz Shock calibration Resonance Dynamic pressure
A range of shaker options bring you a wide
scope of capabilities. Each system provides all the necessary components ‘out-of-the-box’ – from the data acquisition hardware to the Windows PC controller. Cost reducing automation is built in via easy-to-
use Windows software, offering a streamlined approach to calibration procedures, as test parameters are stored and recalled automatically for each accelerometer. This makes for ‘hands-off ’
operation once the sensor is mounted. After this point, calibrations are typically performed in a minute per axis – a substantial time saving over older, more traditional systems.
reSPond ConfidenTly To unexPeCTed TeST dATA In your testing career, have you ever encountered unexpected or unreliable test data? After acquiring unexpected test results, a question is typically asked (even if it is unsaid) that seems to have a binary set of
An efficient calibration process
February 2019 Instrumentation Monthly
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