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As another year draws to a close, I want to take a moment to wish you and your family a very happy holiday season and share my thoughts about this remarkable year for our company.
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This past year brought many challenges to organizations across the globe. Economic instability increased as the year progressed. In these turbulent times, LumaSense has made it a goal to simplify your customer experience, so that you can focus on the success of your business.
To that end, we invested heavily in our business, bringing new talent and capacity to our company to drive the products, innovative solutions and service that you need to stay focused on your business. We streamlined our processes and augmented our infrastructure to speed up order acknowledgement and shipment tracking. We also established a new Global Services team to provide better post-sales service support for repair, calibration and other services.
Finally, we delivered several exciting new products and are on track to release even more offerings over the course of the next few months. Because we understand that you rely on us to provide you with quality solutions that help your company perform optimally, the following are a few new product highlights from 2011:
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ISR6 Advanced - Our new flagship pyrometer with enhanced performance to support your most challenging industrial applications
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BoilerSpection™- continuous thermal imaging to help our power plant customers to reduce downtime due to de-slagging operations
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LumaServSM- contract solutions, developed with the goal of providing lowest total cost of ownership to all our customers
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Besides those organic improvements, we continued our strategy of acquiring companies that allow us to better serve you. Last month, LumaSense completed our third acquisition in the last eighteen months, bringing Louisiana-based Reliability Point into the LumaSense family. This will allow us to even further enhance our sales, support, and aftermarket services for our thermal imaging product line.
Our colleagues worldwide rose to the occasion this past year to overcome challenges created by these rapid changes, growth and overall economic challenges. We have improved tremendously as a company and look forward to delighting you even more in 2012.
This letter would not be complete without heartfelt thanks to all responsible for the success of our company as we enter our seventh year – our customers! Thank you for putting your trust in us to satisfy your sensing needs. I also would like to thank our partners for teaming with us to provide world-class solutions globally. Lastly, I would like to thank all LumaSense colleagues who go above and beyond in service of our stakeholders everywhere.
Thanks again and many happy wishes
for the Holiday Season!
- Vivek
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Temperature Driven Process Control of Induction Heating Processes
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EFD Induction Group is Europe's largest, and the world second largest, supplier of induction solutions. Since 1950, EFD has delivered over 15,000 induction solutions in the world’s most demanding industries. For nearly 50 of its 61-year history, EFD has chosen LumaSense Technologies for pyrometers and thermal imagers. In fact, the LumaSense PI 6000 controller was developed in close coordination with EFD.
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According to EFD, (www.efd-induction.com) in induction heating, power is applied to the object by an induction coil; alternating current flows through and generates a magnetic field. Within the field, eddy currents are induced and heat is produced. Induction heating is fast – it takes less than a second to achieve a uniform surface temperature of 1,000°C on small metal components.
FD turned to LumaSense to provide highly accurate infrared pyrometers and thermal imagers to quickly measure object temperatures. EFD combined these measured temperatures with the LumaSense PID programmable controller, so the induction generator and their entire process could be controlled automatically and with a very high repeatability. EFD appreciates the LumaSense products for:
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Fast and easy process control and optimization
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Robust, repeatable processes monitoring
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Easy integration in existing and new induction heating processes
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Full process documentation to prove process reliability and maintain quality specifications
With active boiler management, reduced and targeted cleanings our customers have seen a return on their investment in just a few months.
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For more information about our solutions for the steel and metal production and processing industries, please click here
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EFD Induction is Europe's No. 1 and the world's No. 2 supplier of induction heat solutions. it has been a forerunner in solid-state induction technology since the early 1980s, when it developed and commercialized some of the world's first transistorized systems. The EFD Induction group consists of 14 companies in eight European countries, the US, China, and India. The parent company of the group is located in Skien, Norway.
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Continuous Flare Stack Monitoring
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One of Austria’s largest integrated, international oil and gas companies, OMV (www.omv.com) wanted assurance that it was in full compliance with government-set smoke emissions regulations. OMV has an annual refining capacity of 22.3 million tons and supplies over 4,700 filling stations in 13 European countries.
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Hydrocarbon waste gases are burned off in smoke stacks to prevent them from entering the atmosphere. Continuous monitoring of pilot flames and flared gases is critical to ensure that the harmful gases will be ignited. Monitoring is also essential so that refineries can prove compliance with pilot status recording requirements.
OMV wanted to keep its stacks clean of smoke with the help of steam water. “Because of the pressure from the governmental side we put a lot of steam into the system. So most of the times we only have steam coming out of the flare stack.” OMV needed to monitor the pilot flame and keep the temperatures at the precise range for its on-shore flaring.
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OMV uses the LumaSense Quasar 8100. The Quasar 8100 is an integrated, automated smoke control system that provides continuous monitoring and detection of flames on flare stacks and reports an analog signal depending on the particle fraction in the smoke produced, up to 400m away from the flare source.
However, one of the greatest challenges while planning and commissioning a flare monitoring system is to reach a precise alignment without a flare. OMV knew that because of our deep application experience, LumaSense would achieve correct optical alignment considering environmental conditions such as wind, rain, fog, and sun. OMV trusted us to properly adjust the signal strength given warning contacts and time lags for example. Additionally, we provided turn-key services to review of the entire wiring and control loop and to adjust the signal between the Quasar 8100 and the control room. LumaSense delivered the right product and services for OMV.
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For more information about the Quasar 8100, the Pulsar III and our petrochemical expertise click here
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OMV Aktiengesellschaft
With Group sales of EUR 23.32 billion and a workforce of 31,398 employees in 2010, OMV Aktiengesellschaft is one of Austria’s largest listed industrial companies. In Exploration and Production, OMV is active in two core countries, Romania and Austria, and holds a balanced international portfolio. OMV had proven oil and gas reserves of approximately 1.15 billion BOE as of year-end 2010 and a production of around 287,000 BOE/D in 9m/2011. In Refining and Marketing, OMV has an annual refining capacity of 22.3 million tons and as of the end of September 2011, approximately 4,700 filling stations in 13 countries, including Turkey. In Austria, OMV operates a 2,000 km long gas pipeline network with a marketed capacity of around 89 bcm in 2010.
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Setting the Standard for Gas Analysis and Calibration
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VSL Dutch Metrology Institute (www.vsl.nl/3) based in Delft, the Netherlands, is the National Metrology Institute appointed by the Dutch government to maintain and develop the national measurement standards for companies, laboratories and organizations directly traceable to international standards. VSL provides Primary Reference Gas Mixtures used worldwide to make gas composition measurements traceable and comparable. These internationally accepted mixtures are used in both industrial and environmental analyses in a wide field of applications from volatile organic compounds to natural gas. In addition to the supply of gas mixtures, VSL also provides calibration of gas monitors and analysis of gas mixtures.
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To accomplish gas mixture analysis, this prestigious organization uses the LumaSense 1412. The Photoacoustic Field Gas-Monitor 1412 is a highly accurate, reliable and stable quantitative field gas monitor. Based on the photoacoustic infrared detection method, the 1412 can measure almost any field gas that absorbs infrared light.
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VSL verifies their gas mixes with a wide range of analyzers among which the 1412. VSL likes the flexibility of the 1412, allowing them to easily calibrate many different gases such as ammonia, formaldehyde, TOC, CO2 and others. The ability to measure and calibrate many gases is due to the 1412’s optical filter carousel. This unique feature enables VSL to selectively measure the concentration of up to 5 component gases and water vapor in any sample. The 1412 also compensates for interference between the measured field gases using the unique cross-compensation feature. Plus the 1412's detection limit is typically in the 10-² ppm range.
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Find out why VSL trusts the LumaSense 1412 with its gas analysis.
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VSL is the national metrology institute of The Netherlands. VSL is part of the Holland Metrology Group (known until now as the NMi Group) with TNO as a shareholder. VSL is a private company with a public task.
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Holiday Feature: LumaServSM
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The mission of the LumaSense services organization is to deliver consistent, sustainable world-class customer support so that you can focus on your business. This means keeping your assets reliable and working; plus providing you the knowledge and expertise required to solve complex problems quickly. With that in mind, we are excited to announce our new LumaServ portfolio to you:
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LumaServ System Support
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LumaServ Mobile Services
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LumaServ Software Maintenance
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LumaServ Extended Warranty
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LumaServ Calibration Services
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LumaServ Training
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We recently completed our first LumaServ training this November in Santa Clara, California, USA. Students came from as far away as the Caribbean, and we had solar, energy and industrial companies plus some governmental agencies represented.
This first course was a basic Level 1 infrared testing as per guidelines published by the American Society for Nondestructive Testing, and students accomplished the following:
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Basic thermal theory and pyrometry
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Introduction to infrared imagers and in-class exercises
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Testing standards, calibration and factory tour
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Practical exercises involving electrical stops and a visit
to the blackbody and FOT labs
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Certification examination
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Ask about any of our LumaServ offerings get also 20% discount on a LumaServ calibration service!
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2011 New Product Highlights from our Temperature Line
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IS/IGA 320
Introduced in March, the IGA 320/23 is a newly designed digital, multi-use pyrometer used extensively for medium to high temperature metal and steel treatment processes. The 320/23 series offers the best accuracy, repeatability and optics in a small 25mm diameter form factor.
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ISR 6 Advanced
Launched in August, the ISR 6 Advanced offers customers built-in temperature display, manual focus and improved electronics that set new accuracy, speed and repeatability standards for devices in this class. In 2012, we plan to add the ISR 6-TV with built-in video camera and TV-output.
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BoilerSpection™
Released in August, BoilerSpection is a revolutionary system that helps coal plants run more efficiently, extract more energy from their coal, and increase productivity. As one of our new Combustion Imaging Systems, BoilerSpection provides critical and continuous through-flame imaging, so coal plant operators can:
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Capture lost boiler capacity by reducing unnecessary cleanings
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Manage fuel-switching strategies by accurately measuring slag as fuel changes
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Lower maintenance costs by optimizing washes to reduce damage caused by large clinkers
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Increase boiler efficiency and plant productivity by automating inspections
As a result of these benefits, coal plants have received a quick return on their investment. In fact, many coal plant operators have seen a return on their investment in just a few months. In addition, BoilerSpection is based on an all-digital architecture, which further extends the value.
Watch for more Combustion Imaging Systems released in 2012!
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2011 Highlights from our Gas Product Line
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LumaSoft™ Gas Multi-Point 7950
Announced in March, this new software remotely controls up to 24 Multi-Gas 1316 Monitors with a single computer. Learn more about how to easily build a scalable multi-point monitoring system here.
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LumaSense 1316 models
Our cost-effective, customizable multi-gas monitors can be used for a wide variety of applications, such as industrial process and production control, chemical plant monitoring, exhaust gas monitoring, biogas monitoring and Inert gas blanketing in the food industry, refrigerant leak detection and fermentation processes.
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2012 Product Preview
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LumaSPEC RT
LumaSPEC RT our new powerful visualization and analysis tool is expected to be released the first quarter of 2012.
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IS 140-PN (PROFINET)
We assist our worldwide customers by making sure our products can easily integrate into every process environment. To support the proliferation of Profinet and EtherCAT, LumaSense will soon add the IS 140-PN to our portfolio.
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1412i
The popular 1412 will soon be available with two key new features on board: USB interface for a direct connection to personal computers and TCP/IP network interface to monitor process systems via a standard Ethernet.
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2012 is full of additional revolutionary product launches to help you improve resource efficiency by providing critical sensing solutions for your most difficult-to-measure processes.
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LumaSense in the News
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New Thermal Imaging System Uses Sharper Video Imagery to Improve Coal Plant Efficiency
LumaSense’s BoilerSpection increases coal-fired boiler efficiency by providing clear and continuous through-flame imaging.
Press Release, Aug 2011
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Pyrometers Improve Quality and Yield in Silicon Growth
Certain environmental conditions are required to grow silicon — ironically, these conditions cause many challenges to creating a high-quality, high-yield product.
Photovoltaics World, Sep 2011
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LumaSense Technologies Acquires Thermal Imaging and Services Assets of La.-Based Reliability Point
Acquisition allows LumaSense to enhance aftermarket services and support for Gulf Coast industrial customers.
Press Release, Nov 2011
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Get a reliable portable infrared thermometer at a discount
The LumaSense IMPAC brand IS 8 pro series is a robust, field proven, portable digital pyrometer with superior optics, response times and reliability. Place an order for the LumaSense IS 8 pro, IS 8-GS pro or IGA pro before December 31 and get a $250 (or €200) discount.
Call +1.800.631.0176 or +49 (0)69 973 730 or
click here to get your discount now.
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Get a complimentary LumaSense 2012 calendars
Email us (info@lumasenseinc.com) with "Calendar
Request" in the subject line and we will send you one.
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