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What Are Portable Industrial Shakers?
Portable industrial shakers are vibration instrument calibration tools. They play an integral role in ensuring any installed Seismic and Proximity Sensors and Transmitters are functioning properly and returning correct information to the Vibration Monitoring System (VMS) and Machinery Protection System (MPS), or to the Control System, Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), and/or the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System (SCADA).

Industrial shakers are a vibration source that vibrates your field sensor or transmitter to a known value. The shaker can be used to verify the entire loop from the vibration sensor or transmitter to the monitoring system or control system. This test ensures that your cable, sensor, transmitter, and any associated signal conditioning electronics are functioning properly. The functionality of the entire sensor and transmitter loop is required for an effective maintenance strategy. This allows people to have confidence in their instrumentation so that their predictive and proactive maintenance methodologies can be fulfilled.

Why Choose Industrial Shakers from Metrix?
Since its founding in 1965, Metrix’s roots have been firmly planted in seismic measurement technology, and since 2005, we have been the pioneers in improving proximity measurement technology. For over 55 years, we have been focused on developing machinery condition monitoring equipment for our clients and testing and analysis also play a prominent role in this strategy. Metrix has held ISO-9001 certification for more than 20 years, guaranteeing we stand by the quality and continual improvement of our manufacturing processes. 

The Hardy Shaker is a necessary tool to ensure your maintenance strategy is effective. The Hardy Shaker validates the complete vibration loop and is traceable to NIST. It comes in two models - HI-903 and HI-913.

• HI-903 Hardy Shaker: The HI-903 is our top-of-the-line Hardy Shaker and offers onboard memory, multiple tests, automated Excel reports and a ruggedized case.

• HI-913 Hardy Shaker: The HI-913 is our standard model, and it’s used for heavy-duty field use, with a ruggedized case.

The Hardy Shaker ensures that the Seismic Sensors, Transmitters and Proximity Systems that you have installed works properly and gives you the results you need.

These are a variable frequency, variable amplitude, battery operated portable shakers capable of calibrating/verifying accelerometers, velocity sensors, transmitters, and proximity systems. It provides the ability to set the amplitude and change the frequency range without the amplitude changing. This automation makes conducting vibration tests very easy.

Rotating and reciprocating machines produce vibration and position information that is vital to understanding machine behavior. The Metrix Hardy Shaker produces a known vibration signal, in both amplitude and frequency, in g's pp (mm/s2), mils pp (µm pp), or ips pp (µm/s pp) for the sensor or transmitter. With our shakers, you will be able to create calibration reports on site, allowing you to validate the integrity of each instrument. With the HI-903 model, one can then save the data, and it can be transferred via USB Flash Drive to be displayed, in automated and customizable reports, using an Excel template on your computer.

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Vibration monitor calibration with an industrial shaker ensures the information you are collecting reads true for the environment where the detection equipment is placed. Just like the pressure and flow instruments in your facility need calibration checks every year, so do your Seismic and Proximity Sensors and Transmitters. This system puts the calibration check of those transducers within your control and your budget. The most cost-effective maintenance strategy is predictive and proactive.

Maintaining your vital vibration monitoring equipment enables you to obtain early warning of a machine problem and prevent faults that can significantly increase your operating costs.

Hardy Shaker HI-903 / HI-913 Maintenance Requirement