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Michell Instruments are delighted to announce they have developed a certified intrinsically safe version of their Easidew Transmitter. The Easidew TX I.S. increases the already highly successful range of Easidew dew point instruments, which includes portable and on-line hygrometers, as well as dew point transmitters. The Easidew TX I.S. is a low cost, rugged impedance dew-point transmitter for continuous measurement in industrial gas applications.

The Easidew TX I.S. is ATEX certified by BASEEFA for use in hazardous areas to Ex II 1G ia IIC T4 when used with a galvanic isolator for signal power supply connections. Easidew TX I.S. can therefore be safely used in virtually all industrial gas measurement applications. The certification lists five different galvanic isolators from two different manufacturers. This allows the customer to choose the most suitable isolator to the correct hazardous / safe area interconnection.

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Equipment failure caused by voltage instability can cost companies thousands of pounds in time and money every year.  The new Voltage Performance Monitor (VPM) from Ideal Industries gives building maintenance personnel, IT professionals and electricians a cost-effective solution to test voltage quality quickly and easily.

In recent years a massive rise in the number of non-linear loads

English Thermal Imaging specialists, Thermoteknix Systems Ltd are regarded as one of the world

Since 2002, customers worldwide have avoided failures of their equipment, from vital production equipment to the office air conditioning, by using Artesis

Hansford Sensors Ltd. has recently selected an alternative 12mm connector style, the M12, as offering the best combination of performance and price. The result - today, you can specify either the standard MS series or the M12 connector on most of their range of vibration sensors.

The main advantages of the M12 connector are its physically smaller size, associated cable assemblies have a tighter bend radius and it is a well accepted and proven connector used across many industries including process control, automation and sensing. They are particularly suitable for use in vibration monitoring equipment, the IP67/68 sealing making them usable in difficult environmental conditions often found in maintenance condition monitoring applications.

With its wide use in industrial electronic equipment, the cost-effective connectors and numerous cable assemblies are readily available from electrical distributors worldwide making 'off-the-shelf' delivery a reality.

Rustem Yildiz is maintenance manager responsible for the Gebze plant which supplies Daimler-Chrysler, Ford, Toyota and Honda on a Just-in-Time basis. From his office, he can access data on the current condition of all the equipment monitored by the Artesis MCM units, and is automatically notified of any changes in status, indicating a potential deterioration in performance.  In addition to the excellent downtime figures, he measures the success of the system by a significant improvement in his homelife, resulting from a dramatic reduction in the number of out of hours calls he receives, that previously had disrupted his evenings.

In his opinion, key elements behind the success have been:

Shell U.K. Limited has been operating an onshore telemetry wide area network in NE Scotland since the mid-1980s. The network, extending southwards from Shell