The institute develops and verifies technological solutions for the shipping and maritime equipment industries and offshore petroleum production, therefore relying on dependable measurements. Low-noise analogue equipment, programmability, multi-client workstation capabilities and excellent service make SINTEF’s day.
We have bought measurement amplifiers and bridges from HBK for 40 odd years, and it’s the quality and service that makes us want to continue doing business with them. Today we have some 28 MGCplus housing, some of them with 6, but most of them with 16 module slots.
Jørn Jensen, Senior Research Engineer at Norsk Marinteknisk Forskningsinstitutt AS laboratories in Trondheim, Norway
The various HBK sensors are placed inside the platforms and ships to collect information about pressures, forces, torsion etc., under various weather conditions. Here, a model of an oil platform is tested in the high waves of the North Sea.
All measurement technicians agree that HBK hardware is the best that is available on the market. The instrumentation staff are enthusiastic about the quality. 24-bit resolution means a minimum of noise. When the time came to get a new data logging system to replace the old Hewlett-Packard Coda that we’ve used for over 15 years, we asked several competitors. In the end, we selected HBK catman Enterprise, along with a few modifications we needed to secure our specifications. One of our staff had seen the system demonstrated in Darmstadt. When he came back he was very excited and said “We just got to have that!” mostly because of the equipment flexibility and the ease of use.