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SETRA SELECT ENGINEERED TRANSDUCERS FOR YOUR UNIQUE PRESSURE-SENSING REQUIREMENTS APPROVALS TOLERANCES

THE HERITAGE. THE PEOPLE. THE PROMISE. Setra was founded in an age of transducer innovation. Our founders, Dr. Y.T. Li and Dr. S.Y. Lee, were Professors of Engineering at MIT and co–developers of the Variable Capacitance Transduction Principle. Building on this heritage of innovation, Setra has designed and developed one of the most comprehensive product lines of pressure sensing transducers in the world. You can lean on our staff of cross-trained and highly skilled engineers and technicians to solve your most unique challenges. We call it Setra Select because the options are all yours....

THE DISCIPLINED BUSINESS MODEL THAT ENSURES REPEATABILITY. Setra is part of the Danaher group of companies. Danaher is a Fortune 200, NYSE-listed, science and technology leader that designs, manufactures and markets innovative products and services to professional, medical, industrial and commercial customers. The Danaher Business System employed by Setra provides a foundation to all 63,000 associates around the world, serving customers in more than 125 countries. How does that trickle down to you and your custom sensing-needs? It means that not only do we have the committed engineering...

SO, WHAT’S CUSTOMIZABLE? The truth is, there’s little we can’t alter to meet your needs. PRESSURE PORT/FITTING SENSING ELEMENT There are many ways to make a pressure connection. Call us if you cannot find your preferred pressure connector among our standard offerings. We can guide you through our available options or potentially customize the pressure port(s) to your specifications. The sensing element is responsible for most of the performance aspects of a pressure transducer. Since Setra is vertically integrated for sensing element technology, we have the ability to customize our sensors...

FIRMWARE/ INTEGRATION ELECTRONICS ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR AND/OR INTERFACE PRESSURE PORT/ FITTING ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR AND/OR INTERFACE There are many standards for electrical connections. Many of our models can be modified to accommodate a variety of standard connectors or custom wiring pin-outs. We can guide you through our available options or potentially customize the electrical connector to your specifications. Examples include: • Cable-wire connections • Wire terminals • Military connectors • Industrial connectors SENSING ELEMENT ENCLOSURE The enclosure serves an important function in...

A PROCESS YOU CAN DEPEND ON. With Setra, you can rest assured that when everything is at stake, we will put the right technical team members on the job. With over a dozen seasoned engineers and technicians, there will likely be nothing new to us about your problem. We will first zero in on your target specs and determine if they are achievable. Then we will break down the problem and select the right technology platform for the application. Every aspect of your application’s mechanical, electrical and environmental constraints will be considered. We will then vet such controlling variables...

Next, our Design Engineers engage with our manufacturing team and collaborate on producing a functional prototype using in-house, standard manufacturing approaches wherever possible. After in-house testing, the prototype is sent to you for evaluation and feedback. You send it back and iterations are made until you are fully comfortable that production models of the prototype will drop in perfectly. Documentation is finalized and production associates are trained in preparation for manufacturing a pilot run and first production order.

MAKING THE CASE. Setra has solved custom transducer problems in nearly every corner of the world. Here are a few case studies to give you an idea of some typical challenges and how we resolved them. SEMICONDUCTOR MEDICAL Challenge Plasma sterilizers use vaporized hydrogen peroxide and vacuum pressure to sterilize intricate, temperature- and moisture-sensitive medical equipment. Our customer needed an accurate and stable vacuum measurement for both an effective sterilization cycle and to ensure decomposition of the H2O2 into water and oxygen for safe release into the environment. Setra...

TANK LEVEL/SANITARY TEST & MEASUREMENT Challenge Test and measurement air-flow applications commonly require sensors with ultra-low pressure measurement capability. Our customer, an air-flow system manufacturer, required a sensor that would fit in a tight enclosure while also measuring a very low differential pressure drop across the filter in order to ensure that each of their products met a standard air-flow resistance. Setra Solution Setra modified one of our AccuSense transducers to not only fit precisely in the machine envelope, but to also address their ultra-low pressure-measurement...

Setra is an ISO 9001-2008 certified manufacturer with robust and mature processes at work to continually optimize team performance. From ideation and design, to validation and test, to volume production, quality is built in. At each stage in Setra’s production process there are built-in verifications to ensure that the products being supplied to our customers are of the highest quality. The Setra team has created numerous innovative manufacturing techniques and tools to catch, track and prevent future failures from occurring. Any newly discovered issues learned from the field, engineering...

WHEN THE TRANSDUCER IS YOUR PROBLEM, SEND YOUR PROBLEM TO US. Not every transducer problem can be solved with a standard solution. If your pressure-sensing application requires modification only an expert could comprehend and solve, try Setra Select . Whether you have been questioning how to: • Sense extremely low or vacuum pressures • Handle unusually harsh environments • Eliminate oil-filled sensors • Waterproof your sensors • Handle wide temperature swings • Handle barometric or differential pressure • Convert from a manual to an automated process • Private label to your requirements To...