Company Press New Calibration Equipment
21 February 2007
Zettlex will shortly take delivery of the first of two automatic test machines built by C-Tech in Chester. The first unit will be a linear system which is a bespoke unit designed to calibrate Zettlex linear encoders up to 1300mm long. The machine incorporates super high rigidity mechanical slides and a high precision optical encoder from Jena Optik in Germany with a measurement resolution of 0,2microns.
The second unit is currently in the final stages of build and is intended for calibration of rotary encoders. As with the linear unit, the rotary unit includes a high precision optical encoder from Jena Optik with an angular resolution of <0,1 arc seconds.
Zettlex’s Technical Manager explains “This new automatic test equipment has been a very large investment in terms of time, effort and money by Zettlex but we’re confident the investment will yield returns because we are now able to offer our customers even more accurate sensors than we could previously. Measuring gnat's cocks is no longer beyond our means.”
NOTES TO EDITORS:- Zettlex is a sensors company.Our non-contact position sensors measure accurately & reliably even in harsh conditions - hence our motto - 'Precision in the Extreme'. We
- Design & make position sensors
- Supply sensor components - notably integrated circuits for inductive position sensors
- Develop non-contact sensing solutions to customer requirements.
Unique technology and laminar, printed construction enables inductive sensors with no contacts, no bearings, no delicate parts, no maintenance, no bother.....just accurate measurements - all day, every day.
We sell our sensors to OEMs and system integrators in a range of sectors. About half of our business is for safety related or safety critical control systems and we are familiar with the demanding requirements of industrial, aerospace, defence, oil & gas sectors. We can supply fully documented and qualified sensing solutions to DO-254 and DO-178.
Applications include position measurement, user interfaces, servo controls & motor encoders. This covers linear transducers and rotary encoders as well as measurement of 2D displacement, 3D displacement, multi-turn angle, tilt, weight, pressure, vibration, strain and flow.
Zettlex inductive position sensors are an economical, lightweight and robust alternative to potentiometers, optical encoders, rotary encoders, resolvers, RVDTs, LVDTs, magnetic sensors and capacitive encoders.
Zettlex is ISO 9001 and BS EN 13980 certified for the manufacture of position sensors including intrinsically safe ATEX transmitters and position feedback controls for potentially explosive environments.
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