Safe and practical field calibration with the new Beamex® MC2-IS

The new ATEX and IECEx certified Beamex® MC2-IS Intrinsically Safe Multifunction Calibrator is a practical tool designed for field calibration and testing in explosive environments. It has calibration capabilities for pressure, temperature and electrical signals, and it connects to almost 20 available Beamex intrinsically safe external pressure modules. The MC2-IS is a compactsized, lightweight portable calibrator with a large graphical display, multilingual interface and a complete numerical keyboard. Calibration with the MC2-IS is fast and simple.

Summarizing the benefits of using the MC2-IS, Heikki Laurila, product manager at Beamex, says “Our customers have been asking for a straightforward, practical, intrinsically safe field calibrator and that’s exactly what the MC2-IS is. It provides safety for the person using it, as it is incapable of causing ignition in an explosive environment. Not only is it safe, but it also offers the functionality and performance of an industrial calibrator, as it has wide calibration and configuration possibilities.”

The MC2-IS is the second intrinsically safe multifunction calibrator that Beamex has introduced. The existing Beamex® MC5-IS is an all-in-one documenting calibrator offering superior functionality and performance compared to any other intrinsically safe calibrator. Introduction of the MC2-IS improves Beamex’s already excellent ability to serve customers operating in potentially explosive environments.

New brochures available for optional features of the Beamex® CMX Calibration Software

New brochures are available for Beamex® CMX Calibration Software. One brochure concerns the History Trend function, which is an optional feature in the CMX Professional and a standard feature in the CMX Enterprise. The History Trend function allows a company to plan the optimal calibration interval for instruments.

The other brochure introduces CMX’s Weighing Instrument Support function. This particular function is optional for the CMX Professional and a standard for the CMX Enterprise.

Download the brochures at:
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Beamex equips high profile power station with the MCS100 Workstation

Beamex (UK) has recently been contracted by Scottish and Southern Energy to supply their world-class calibration solution for Peterhead Power Station – Scotland’s largest power station capable of creating 2407MW from North Sea Gas.

Beamex has supplied their powerful Beamex® MCS100 Calibration Workstation, which incorporates panelmounted pressure, electrical and temperature calibration instrumentation, automatically controlled pressure and temperature sources, digital multimeters, soldering equipment, air amplifier and vacuum generator built into a robust, heavy duty workbench.

Peterhead Power Station manages and documents workshop calibrations, in addition to those performed around the site, using their fleet of Beamex® MC5 Multifunction Calibrators with network-licensed Beamex® CMX Calibration Software, installed and centrally administrated by Scottish and Southern Energy across 10 locations in the UK from their IT headquarters in Reading.

Gordon Shand, C&I team leader at Peterhead knows that he will definitely get his money’s worth for his investment in this essential and high quality suite of instrumentation through the increase in efficiency due to the automated calibration process and the seamless and electronic flow of data between measurement devices and the electronically stored calibration results. Gordon comments, “So far the bench has proved to be easy to use. It’s more than suitable for our purposes and it has simplified the calibration of our field instruments”.

Scottish and Southern Energy is the second largest supplier of electricity and natural gas in the United Kingdom. It incorporates the brands SWALEC, Southern Electric, Scottish Hydro Electric and Atlantic Electric and Gas. It also owns Southern Electric Power Distribution, Scottish Hydro Electric Power Distribution, Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission and 50 % of Scotia Gas Networks. Scottish and Southern Energy was the largest generator of electricity from renewable sources in the UK during 2004 and 2005.

Beamex successful once again in Control Mag’s Annual Readers’ Choice Awards

In its recent Readers’ Choice Awards 2008, Control Magazine asked its readers to rate the best vendors in various product categories. This year more than 1,000 automation professionals from various process industries gave their opinion on the subject. This was Control Magazine’s 16th annual Readers’ Choice study.

Beamex was awarded the 3rd place in the “Portable Calibrators” category. This is the second consecutive year that Beamex has been placed in the top three in the category in question. Additionally, Beamex was awarded the 4th place in the “Software, Calibration Management” category. This is the first time in the 16-year history of the study that Beamex places among the top four companies in the mentioned product category. This award is considered a major achievement at Beamex and it is highly valued.

Raimo Ahola, managing director of the Beamex Group says, “Our focus is geared towards integrated calibration solutions that provide improved efficiency and quality. Having our company ranked in both product categories, calibrators and calibration software, is a clear indication that our product is one of a kind and valued by the market. I’m very pleased about the results”.

With more than 70,000 readers, Control Magazine is the only North American publication for industry that is exclusively dedicated to process automation. It is the most widely read publication in its market niche.

At Beamex, the opinions of calibration professionals in the US are valuable and highly respected. We are very grateful to Control Magazine readers for voting for us and giving us such a high rank for the calibration equipment we develop and manufacture.

Beamex at the Foundation Fieldbus General Assembly 2008

The Fieldbus Foundation 2008 General Assembly was held in Antwerp, Belgium, on February 27-29. The annual event was open to Fieldbus Foundation members and non-members and was attended by Foundation technology suppliers, end users and other industry participants from around the world. Beamex was also present at the event with a tabletop introducing the Beamex® MC5 Fieldbus Calibrator and its functionality.

Beamex receives Frost & Sullivan’s award for customer service leadership

Frost & Sullivan is one of the world’s most esteemed growth consulting companies with 31 global offices and more than 1500 industry consultants, analysts and economists. Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards identify exemplary achievements within various industries and functional disciplines. The company recently presented their award for Customer Service Leadership to Beamex in the European calibration management software market.

To choose the recipient of this Award, the analyst team tracked industry participants and monitored their customer service methods on an ongoing basis. The Award recipient was selected based upon extensive research collected from key market participants, secondary and technology sources, and customer interviews. As the Award winning company, Beamex showed tremendous responsiveness to customer needs and has continually focused on customer profitability goals. In addition, Beamex demonstrated flexibility in tailoring its product offerings to suit customer businesses.

This award is considered as a major achievement at Beamex. “We highly appreciate this award and it is a major recognition for our calibration software and services. The fact that makes this award so valuable, is that it is based on experiences and interviews of industry experts and customers”, explains Raimo Ahola, the managing director of Beamex Group.