By Mark Scantlebury, President and CEO Software programs and devices with embedded software nearly always have issues or bugs. With the complexity of software these days, there are typically tens or hundreds of thousands of…
ETC’s strategic partnership with August Electronics ETC has been in the business of designing and manufacturing hazardous location approved electronics for the oil and gas industry for nearly 14 years. During this time, we have…
Part Two: Last week, we discussed the 10 steps in the product development process in general terms. This week we’ll discuss in more detail how we went through these 10 steps when developing our plunger…
Part One: As consumers, we routinely buy devices that solve a problem for us without really knowing what goes on behind the scenes to get them from an idea on a napkin to a physical…
In May, we discussed the evolution of hazardous location standards and what that means. As requests increase for well site equipment to be approved for use in hazardous locations, it is important to know if the…
Electronic controls and sensors for oil and gas are routinely subjected to all kinds of chemicals, moisture from the atmosphere, or other substances that will corrode the circuit board and components. It is only a…
You may have heard the term potting before and been unsure what it refers to. When it comes to intrinsically safe hazardous locations approved sensors, you will often find that the circuit board inside has…
