For the first time, Pittcon will be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, and we’re thrilled to have the hustle and bustle of this show right in our backyard. Brooks will be at booth 702 offering product demos and showcasing our market-leading mass flow controllers, vacuum capacitance manometers and pressure transducers.
We’re most excited to reveal our expanded portfolio of GF 40/80 Series mass flow controllers at Pittcon. The GF 40/80 Series leads the market in long-term zero stability at less than 0.5% per year. What does that mean? The devices will return more reliable accuracy data for a longer period of time than competitive devices. And with MulitFlo™ inside, users can re-program the gas and/or range of the devices in minutes without the trouble and cost of removing them from service. Read more…
We continue to add more products to our e-commerce website, www.BrooksInstrument.com/Shop. We just added the model 8601 pressure regulator this week. There six different variations of the model 8601 available now in addition to the glass tube variable area flow meters, plastic tube variable area flow meters, and pressure gauges. Read more…
More new products were just added to our online store at www.BrooksInstrument.com/Shop. Now you can purchase 28 different pressure gauge models in addition to the glass and plastic tube variable area flow meters that are already online. Read more…
While many of you use Brooks mass flow controllers or variable area flow meters for gas flow measurement and control, you might not know that Brooks also manufactures an exceptional capacitance manometer series for vacuum measurement applications – the XacTorr™ series capacitance manometers.
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Last week, Brooks launched a line of industrial pressure transmitters, the SolidSense II® (ATEX). These join our existing line of ultra-high purity pressure transducers, the SolidSense II®.
Fast facts about the industrial pressure transmitters, SolidSense II® (ATEX):
- Superior corrosion resistance with a 316L stainless steel, chromium enriched wetted flow path, making them suitable for virtually all process fluids;
- Digital temperature compensation enabling improved process pressure measurement in plants subject to wide temperature variations;
- High accuracy combined with FM and ATEX compliance make the SolidSense II (ATEX) the optimum choice for demanding applications.
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Brooks Instrument knows a lot about agency approvals. If you need a mass flow controller, mass flow meter, or pressure controller for a hose down or hazardous area requirement you came to the right place! We not only have the approvals, but we can also help you understand which approval is right for your application. For example, what’s the difference between UL ‘Listed’ and UL ‘Recognized’ and which one is right for my application?
Well the UL Listed products carry the following mark.
This means that the product has been tested by UL to nationally recognized Safety Standards and has been found to be free from reasonably foreseeable risk of fire, electric shock and related hazards in a Division 2 / Zone 2 environment. The Brooks SLAMF Series thermal mass flow meter/mass flow controller and pressure controllers, and the Quantim IP65 Coriolis mass flow meter/mass flow controller products are all UL listed.
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Recently, 15 Brooks team members began a “kaizen” in our Pressure Gauge manufacturing cell. Kaizen, for those of you who may not know, translates into “good change” or “change for the better.” In practice, it refers to efforts of a multi-functional team working in a short-term, concentrated “blitz” fashion to realize continuous process improvement. Basically, you examine the current state of the cell operation, begin to build a vision of an improved “future state,” and then drive to get to the future state quickly (for example, improvements/results expected by the end of the week).
The main focus of the Kaizen is to identify and eliminate waste. Waste in manufacturing includes excess motion, waiting, overproduction etc. As you can imagine, lead times can be greatly improved by finding and eliminating waste during this process. Reducing lead times allows us to improve quality and delivery— two things where all customers should be happy to see improvements. Of course, we ultimately expect this process to help us grow sales and earnings for the product line.
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Short answer: “No.” But I’m not one to give short answers.
Any mass flow controller needs three things.
- It needs power (usually 24VDC; sometimes +/- 15 V).
- It needs a set point (quite often 4-20 mA or 0-5 V).
- It needs to send its output (4-20 mA or 0-5 V) to something.
When I hook up a mass flow controller on my dining room table (while my wife is at work), I need secondary electronics to do these three things. Brooks 0254 secondary electronics is a great power supply. It can power up to four Brooks devices (Quantims, mass flow controllers, pressure transducers, cylinder scales… anything needing 24 volts to run.).
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