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DPI 620 Genii portable Multi-Function Calibrator – calibration, measurement and communication in a single tool

40 Years of Pressure Measurement

When it comes to pressure sensing, measurement and calibration, Baker Hughes, a GE company (NYSE: BHGE) combines over 40 years of experience designing and manufacturing some of the most accurate and reliable pressure measurement solutions on the market today. What started as a small business in Leicester, UK in 1972 as Druck Ltd., has now grown into a world-leader in manufacturing high-quality and high-accuracy, piezo-resistive pressure sensors and advanced calibration equipment. The company knows what matters in pressure measurement and builds this expertise into every product it produces.

Whether you know them as Druck, GE, or now work with them as BHGE – the world’s first and only full stream company, you can have confidence that all your pressure measurement and calibration needs are covered.

The Problem: the “inventory of instruments”

Across industry, Instrument Technicians face the same reality - they require a whole array of tools to solve every day or annual problems. Some time ago, BHGE realised that managing across the full, installed base of instrumentation can be a challenging task, regardless of its size. They understood that carrying multiple devices on site, each of which is designed to perform a single task, can be inconvenient and costly, and that traditional equipment is often only designed to cover a specific task, so fails to account for the multiple parameters technicians are required to measure on a day-to-day basis.

Outside of the varied tasks technicians perform, traditional equipment does not always account for the different environments technicians must operate in, specifically hazardous areas where intrinsically safe instrumentation is essential. In such areas technicians must not only take additional care, but also specialised equipment – once again increasing the inventory of instruments that they require.

The issues highlighted above have direct consequences for technicians – along with factors, such as cost and process efficiency. Taken together, this makes the problem of reliable instrumentation selection critical to not only performance and accuracy, but efficiency, productivity and profitability.  

The Solution: Genii 620 - Multiple Specialised Tools … all in onegenii_and_genii_is1_c9deed48af8bb204eb4c629c270b7113464b7c3f.jpg

 

As has been seen with the mobile telephone, users expect more from a handheld single device without compromising on functionality. Mobile phones have needed to be future-proof and modular to allow for additional requirements such as email, gaming and photography to name a few.

The product development unit at BHGE prides itself on understanding the importance of intelligent design and acting upon user requirements. That’s why they invested in designing a Multifunction Modular Process Calibrator that lets Site Technicians perform many different tasks on a single hand-held device, without compromising on functionality.

 

BHGE’s global product manager Francesca Jackson comments: “the DPI 620 Genii Series is a multifunction process calibrator which offers engineers frequency, pressure and temperature calibration, as well as HART®, Fieldbus and Profibus communications, all in the same instrument. It’s a flexible, cost-effective and advanced product, which helps realize inventory reduction, efficiency gains and lower cost of ownership."

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Part of the BHGE Elite product range, the DPI 620 Genii Series are an easy to use, rugged, and highly accurate multifunction instrument, ideally suited for calibrating and maintaining process instrumentation. Modular design and functionality means it can be expanded over time and tailored to diverse applications as needs change.  With options that include HART® / Fieldbus / Profibus communications, it’s a powerful, simple to use and high accuracy calibrator. The DPI 620 Genii-IS Intrinsically Safe version comes with ATEX and IECEx approval for use in zone 1 and zone 2 classified hazardous areas.

BHGE have also been careful to futureproof the DPI 620 Genii Series, building in modular, multi-function and pressure calibration functionality, with pressure calibration provided by a uniquely flexible pressure system. This comprises an array of 32 high accuracy pressure measurement modules with ranges from 25 mbar to 1000 bar and three pressure-generating stations, eliminating the need to carry gas bottles and regulators and greatly simplifying the priming of hydraulic systems.

The modules feature digital characterization and a simple screw fit to allow interchangeability in a matter of seconds with no need for tools, set-up or calibration. Whenever a module needs calibration, it can simply be replaced with a new one, without the need to take the complete calibrator out of service, all of which helps to avoid expensive downtime.

Multiple Tools in One - the DPI620 Genii Series can provide:

  • Pressure Calibration/Generation
  • Pressure Indication
  • Loop indicator (24VDC)
  • Modular Pressure ranges
  • Electrical Multimeter (sink/source)
  • Data Logger
  • Temperature Calibrator (RTD/Thermocouples)
  • HART/Foundation Fieldbus and Profibus Digital Communication
  • Calibration software enabled (4Sightv2)
  • Commercial and IS Safe version


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