Entries by Ryan Welker

Happy Holidays 2020

2020 has certainly been memorable to say the least.  Thank you to everyone who has sacrificed and adapted their habits to make sure our essential work was completed safely.  May your holidays be joyful and healthy, and may your new year be prosperous!

Prevent Costly Mistakes on Industrial Monitoring Hardware Updates

 Are you contemplating updates to your industrial monitoring hardware? Perhaps a COVID slowdown has given your team time to finally upgrade to that latest and greatest National Instruments controller.   Before you make that leap, there’s one extremely important factor to consider, and that is the software running your equipment. If your code isn’t ready, […]

Engineering Data Acquisition Tools: NI-9236 Strain Module

 The most common strain gauge installation configuration is a 350 ohm, quarter bridge.  Quarter bridge installations a generally the easiest and most economical installation for determining structural strain levels.  In the quarter bridge configuration a single element strain gauge is mounted in the principle axial or bending strain direction. One tool that our engineers […]

Quiet Please: ITM Tunes Into Importance of Measuring Sound Levels

Whether manufacturing vehicles, mining natural resources or operating machinery on a construction site, a single common factor can bring your operation and productivity to an absolute halt.  That factor is noise.  In a world where precision and performance rule, measuring and controlling sound levels can be crucial to the success of your product or project. The team […]

Silo Load Monitoring

 Plant operators need to continuously measure bulk material levels/weight in their silos and hoppers to ensure their processes are running safely, efficiently, and without bottlenecks. Measuring these levels allows operators to automate vessel filling, verify material consumption, and prevent overfilling. What we offer ITM provides its customers with a variety of structural load monitoring […]