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Gneuss Accuracy
FREE WHITEPAPER ON ACCURACY RATINGS
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GNEUSS MELT PRESSURE SENSORS
Superior Accuracy, Superior Durability, Competitively Priced
If you've already read the whitepaper, thank you. We hope you found it informative. Maybe our white paper got you wondering about the performance of your current melt pressure sensor and whether its accuracy is having an effect on your bottom line. Maybe your automated process isn't running quite as smoothly as you think it should and you're wondering if the performance of your melt pressure sensor could be at fault.
Well, we aren't the experts on your operations, but we know that if you rely on accurate melt pressure measurements to keep your extrusion and compounding lines running smoothly, a Gneuß melt pressure sensor will give you the best performance you can get anywhere at any price. But, the thing is, we're not going to ask you to pay "any price" for a Gneuß melt pressure sensor. Unless your current sensor is some wobbly, cheap piece of junk that was made in God-only-knows-where (that you're probably replacing a few times a year) you will find that Gneuß' melt pressure sensors are very competitively priced with what you're using now. Whether you need a transducer or a transmitter, with or without built-in temperature measurement, you will be surprised (pleasantly, we think) by the price. And we haven't even asked you to take into consideration the fact that any way you look at it, Gneuß outperforms all the competitors.
Yes, that's right, Gneuß blows away the competition in terms of durability (who else backs their product with a 3 year warranty?) and accuracy...which is what this page is supposed to be about anyway. You might be wondering how you can be sure (or that we can be so sure) that these really are the most accurate melt pressure sensors on the planet. Well, consider this: Gneuß manufactures the highest performing automated filtration and processing products for the plastic extrusion market (just ask anyone who owns a Gneuß screen changer), and that equipment relies on accurate melt pressure measurements to perform the way it does. The reason the folks at Gneuß got into the business of making these sensors in the first place was because none of the sensors that were available when they were designing their equipment came close to providing the performance they required.
Are you currently using a melt pressure sensor that's rated at ±1% accuracy? Well, for starters, Gneuß doesn't even make one of those; ±0.5% is the "worst" that you'll find in Gneuß' product range. Not only that, but when Gneuß tells you that their product is going to give you a half-percent accuracy relative to the full scale output, they sincerely mean it. Unlike most other manufacturers, Gneuß rates the accuracy of their product by the Terminal Straight Line (TSL) method, which is a more stringent definition of accuracy. And, the straight line that Gneuß uses as the reference is the ideal straight line. (If you're not familiar with the TSL method, you can download our whitepaper or have a look at this link or this link. Both of those last two are links to websites that promote products that are rated by the less accurate BFSL method. In fact, if you look at the graph on the first page of the .pdf file that the second link takes you to, you'll see quite clearly why you can trust Gneuß' statements of accuracy.) In other words, if you're calibrating a sensor and you want to express the accuracy as a percent of the full-scale output, the TSL method is always going to give you numbers that look worse than the numbers produced by the BFSL method. In the whitepaper we show you how a ±1% (BFSL) transducer would have had to have been rated at ±1.6% if the TSL method had been used. In fact, to get the same instantaneous accuracy that you get from one of Gneuß' 0.5% parts, you'd need to buy at least a 0.25% part from one of the competitors.
So, whether you're looking for a melt pressure sensor with 0.5%, 0.25%, or 0.15% accuracy, and whether you need a transducer or a transmitter, Gneuß offers the best product you can buy at a very competitive price.
