Vibration, Temperature, Acoustic, Displacement, Pressure & Level Instrumentation

“From accelerometer selection to FFT-ready data — vibration measurement done right.”

• Right accelerometer, right mount, right location — by CAT II/III certified analysts.
• Rotating machinery expertise: phase, speed, and tach integration for diagnostics.
• Modal and ODS sensor layouts planned with the analysis in mind.

Scope: IEPE accelerometer selection & installation; magnetic/stud/adhesive mounting; vibration bands & FFT-ready acquisition; modal & ODS arrays; genset vibration instrumentation.

Decades of genset vibration programs for a major heavy-equipment OEM.

“Contact and non-contact temperature measurement in the places that melt lesser sensors.”

• Boiler tube, furnace, and exhaust measurements at temperatures that destroy standard installs.
• Non-contact IR for moving and inaccessible surfaces.
• Hopper ash thermocouple arrays engineered for level inference — the HALT heritage.

Scope: Thermocouple installation (all standard types); boiler tube & high-temperature measurements; non-contact IR sensing; furnace/kiln profiling; thermal process data collection.

HALT thermocouple arrays running on hoppers in power and pulp & paper plants.

“Sound measurements that meet the standard and find the source.”

• ISO-compliant noise testing with calibrated microphones and documented setups.
• Sound-source identification: find the offending component, not just the dB level.
• NVH programs that pair acoustic data with vibration channels for real diagnostics.

Scope: Calibrated microphones & cDAQ microphone modules; Sound Level Test System kits; ISO noise testing & data logging; sound-level HMIs; NVH acquisition with synchronized vibration.

Sound Level Test System productized from ITM field-testing practice.

“The other primitives — measured with the same field discipline as our strain work.”

• Right sensing primitive for the job: displacement, pressure, tank/silo/bin level, crane loads.
• Bulk material inventory by structural response — no internal sensors in harsh media.
• Pipeline strain and process measurements integrated with plant systems.

Scope: Displacement & position; pressure instrumentation; tank/silo/bin level & ash hopper load; crane & structural load measurement; pipeline strain programs.

BOLT silo monitoring grew directly out of this measurement practice.