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Fluid Property Sensors and analyzers are designed, qualified and manufactured by Measurement Specialties, Inc. in Toulouse, France. Toulouse is a center of high tech and scientific excellence, the homeland of Airbus and the European Space Agency.




"Beginning with its creation, we have demonstrated a strong commitment to quality and environment best practices: ISO/TS 16949, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certifications highlight our willingness to infuse the highest quality standards into product development, manufacturing processes and environmental practices. In our quest for customer satisfaction, our priorities are named technology, innovation, continuous improvement, and capability to quickly react to specific requests."

                                                                J.F Allier, C.E.O
  • Process approach and main principles
Based on ISO/TS16949:2002, our processes aim at consistently providing the best solutions to customer expectations and requirements with a tight control of its operations.

Using constructive risk analysis approach though our design and development activities ensure us to provide quick and reliable solutions to customer. Environmental considerations are included during design phases.

 Statistical Process Control is used in manufacturing process to anticipate and prevent any variation of critical characteristics and reach best quality targets.

 Continuous improvement approach based on root cause identification and lessons learned from our day to day activities is deployed systematically inside our company.

 Development of quality supplier performance with permanent cooperation is the key to get best manufacturing process control using preventive quality methods and tools.

 Training all the employees on a regular basis is part of our policy for implementing a zero defect culture in the company.
  • Environmental Policy and commitment to sustainable development
Our products and services are aimed at improving the quality of life for everyone, anywhere in the world.  We commit to actively work for the protection of the environment throughout our day to day activities. Using integrated quality and environmental ISO14001- compliant Management System, we are committed to:

• Design and manufacture products and technologies that contribute or enable a sustainable development of the planet.
• Achieve and maintain compliance with environmental laws and regulations.
• Infuse a fighting spirit among its employees towards reducing the impact of their work on the environment.
• Prevent pollution and optimize the use of natural resources.
• Implement an assessment system to ensure continuous improvement in our daily activities.

 RoHS
What is RoHS ?
The European Union published the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive ( RoHS Directive, 2002/95/EC)  on February 13, 2003. This Directive takes effect on July 1, 2006, and with some exceptions (Annex) totally bans the use of (Article 4.1):

lead,
mercury,
cadmium,
hexavalent chromium,
polybrominated biphenyls (PBB's),
polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE's),     

in electronic and electrical products and equipments.

This directive will become applicable to producers who are selling Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE) in European Countries and that fall under the following categories:
  • Household appliance
  • IT and communication equipments
  • Consumer equipments
  • Lighting equipments
  • Electrical and electronic tools (with the exception of large scale stationary industrial tools
  • Toys, leisure and sport equipments
  • Automatic dispensers
Medical devices (with exemption of implanted and infected products) and monitoring and control instrumentation are not under the directive scope.  

 
KEY ELEMENTS
Council Decision COM(2004) 606 (adopted Sept. 23, 2004), amends the Annex of the RoHS Directive to permit-- in any application that was not already exempted--a homogenous material to contain a maximum of:

0.1% (1000PPM) lead by weight.
0.1% mercury by weight.
0.01% cadmium by weight.
0.1% hexavalent chromium by weight.
0.1% polybrominated biphenyls (PBB's) by weight.
0.1% polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE's) by weight. Homogenous material is defined as material that cannot be “mechanically disjointed” into different materials. ”Mechanically disjointed” means that the materials cannot in principal be separated into other materials by mechanical methods such as unscrewing, cutting, crushing, grinding or abrasive processes. A clean separation is not a requirement and this definition is intended only to indicate that materials such as plastics, metals, and coatings, etc., should not contain the restricted substances.. With the October 25, 2005 amendment to the RoHS Directive , the Annex exempts some additional applications from the ban in Article 4.1:

Mercury in lamps (items 1, 2, 3, and 4).
Lead in the glass of cathode ray tubes (CRT's) and fluorescent tubes (item 5).
Lead in certain steel, aluminium, and copper alloys (item 6).
Lead in high melting-temperature solders containing over 85% lead by weight (item 7).
Lead in solders used for servers, storage, and storage array systems (item 7).
Lead in solders used for network infrastructure equipment (item 7).
Lead in electronic ceramic parts (item 7).
Cadmium and cadmium compounds in electrical contacts and cadmium plating that isn't banned by Directive 76/769/EEC (item 8).
Hexavalent chromium as an anti-corrosion agent in absorption refrigerators (item 9).
Lead in compliant pin connector systems (item 11).
Lead as a coating for the thermal conduction module c-ring (item 12).
Lead and cadmium in optical and filter glass (item 13).
Further exemptions are under discussion, some are waiting for a vote of the national committees, some others are not decided yet. Most of proposed exemptions are dealing with lead. “Lead-free" does not necessarily mean "RoHS-compliant", and "RoHS-compliant" does not necessarily mean "lead-free". If any homogeneous material-- anywhere in the electronic product-- contains too much lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (PBB's), or polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE's), then the entire unit is not "RoHS-compliant". Similarly, the glass of a large cathode-ray tube (CRT) could contain several pounds of lead. But since it falls under exemption 5 in the Annex of the RoHS Directive, it can be "RoHS-compliant" and not "lead-free". For many electronics companies, the major impact of the RoHS Directive is the ban on lead. Lead has been used for long time in solder, and as part of the protective platings on components and printed circuit board (PCB) pads. Lead has also been used in many pigments and paints, in some lubricants, and in some metal alloys to make them easier to machine. Few lead-free solder alloys have melting points close to eutectic tin-lead solder (63Sn37Pb, 183°Celsius). But they use fairly-rare elements like indium, or they have poor mechanical/chemical properties compared to tin-lead solder. Most of the lead-free solder alloys have melting points at least 30 degrees Celsius higher than eutectic tin-lead solder. So, a longer dwell time at high temperature is required by many of the lead-free solders which can generate higher stress to components. Therefore, much tighter process controls are needed to prevent damage to components and PCB's during assembly and rework.

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  “Compliance in not only a question of substances used. Changing raw material involve significant changes in production process. Because Measurement Specialities has identified this obligation long time ago, we are now able to provide compliant products
and technical support to our customers”.

Measurement Specialities use the following logo to label its RoHS compliant products