This web site covers just part of our product range, so if you don’t see what you require please talk to a member of our sales team for details of other products or our custom build service.

Current News

Monitran launches its easy-to-use product selector guide for general and special purpose vibration sensors

Follow the Guide -

High Wycombe, United Kingdom - 10th December 2007 - Monitran, a world
leader in the development and manufacture of sensors for the measurementof vibration and displacement, has released an innovative productselector guide. It presents the top-level features and benefits of 64 of
Monitran's general and special purpose accelerometers - all in a
concise, A4 fold-out booklet.

The guide is free and can be requested as a hardcopy or as a PDF by
contacting Monitran on sales@monitran.com.

Within the sensor guide products are split into three categories, namely
general purpose analysis (AC), general purpose monitoring (DC) and
special purpose, and then further refined into families. Also, icons are
used extensively throughout the guide to denote the sensors'
applicability to one or more of up to nine industry sectors, including
utilities, buildings & maintenance, automotive, petrochemical and R&D.

Monitran's sensor guide also includes a page devoted to selection tips,
to help users identify the most suitable products for their
requirements. Patrick Treherne, Monitran's Sales Manager, comments:
"Whilst our guide lists 64 of our standard accelerometers, these are
just part of our range, which is the largest available from any European
manufacturer. We're appreciative of the fact that different users will
have different uses for our sensors - so our guide was designed to aid
selection."

For applicable sensors, approval to ATEX group I or II is highlighted.
Also, for each sensor in the guide, its weight, dimensions, sealing (IP
rating), type (top or side entry), temperature range and electrical
characteristics are given. "For further information users should refer
to the technical datasheets," adds Treherne, "but as a means of
identifying the most suitable product for any given application the
guide is a valuable resource."Of the 64 sensors, 35 are general purpose and include Monitran's popular
MTN/1100 family of AC output accelerometers (ideal for vibration
analysis) and the MTN/1185 and MTN/1187 families which have DC outputs
(4-20mA, ideal for vibration monitoring).

Special purpose sensors presented in the guide include dedicated sensors
for velocity measurement, a high temperature sensor, a sensor for modal
analysis, charge output sensors, low frequency accelerometers, dual and
triple output sensors and Monitran's recently announced tri-axial
sensor.

In addition to their presence in the guide, all products can be viewed
on Monitran's website, www.monitran.com, which was re-launched at the
beginning of December 2007. On this revamped site, and as within the
product guide, sensors are ordered in such way so as to aid selection.

Sensors are initially categorised by use (analysis or monitoring) and
then by type (industrial, hazardous, small footprint or waterproof).
Monitran has also added a FAQ page. Treherne adds: "With such a wealth
of knowledge behind us we wanted our site to become 'the voice of
experience'."

Treherne concludes: "If only a few sensors could satisfy most
applications you could argue there'd be little need for a product
selector guide, but the fact of the matter is that no two applications
are ever exactly the same. This is why Monitran has spent 21 years
developing the industry's widest range of fit-for-purpose sensors."