KB Engineering is proud to offer shock recorders and vibration recorders for dynamic package testing plus from Instrumented Sensor Technology, a company synonymous with data acquisition. These recorders range from low cost shock detectors and shock & vibration loggers to full-featured shock & vibration waveform recorders. Additionally, our partner IST, specializes in the design, development and manufacturing of acceleration data loggers, low cost portable accelerometers, angular rate sensors, along with other high quality testing products. Any of these shock and vibration recorders, loggers or monitors can be custom engineered to meet your requirements. KB Engineering can expertly provide the recorders and software, service, training, and support for your application. Call 1-616-437-1941.
The EDR-3C is a portable impact, shock and vibration full waveform recorder and has a built-in triaxial accelerometer that's designed to measure shock, vibration, temperature and (as an option) humidity, pressure, or resistance-bridge devices. The programmable unit tags all acceleration events with a time and date to provide a time history of the dynamic environment experienced during a recording session. The EDR-3C series shock recorders offer a time-tested reputation for proven performance and reliability with hundreds of successful installations since the mid 90s. The EDR-3C series recorder operates similarly and differs primarily in programmability features, on-board memory and channel capacities. Each recorder is powered by a specially designed C-Cell battery pack (9 Volt optional.)
The EDR-3C series shock and vibration recorders have been designed for applications that require remote, unattended monitoring and recording of shock and vibration data over long periods of time. Their ultra-small size and weight, combined with their extraordinary recording and programmability features make them ideal for applications where space and weight come at a premium. Since human monitoring during recording is not required, personnel cost associated with the field testing using the EDR-3C recorders can be reduced significantly. The instruments also provide a high degree of operational reliability under harsh environmental test conditions.
The EDR-3C recorder is used in conjunction with IST's DynaMax Suite Software programs and downloads the EDR-3C's memory to a PC using USB or high speed serial commmunications. Together, the EDR-3C and the DynaMax software program provide a powerful tool for accurately recording and analyzing dynamic environments.
DynaMax Suite makes a giant leap forward in field-data collection. This software is by far the most advanced, feature packed package of its kind in the industry. Not only are there more analysis tools then ever before, but the use of these tools simpler too.
There are different classes of Dynamax software packages that are available are used to set up the recorder, download the data after the test, and analyze the data. Each software package also is designed to enable exporting of the data for use with outside systems such as a vibration controller, scientific analysis software package, spreadsheet, or word processing program.
The SnapShock Plus (SSP) accelerometer, serves as an impact indicator and transportation data recorder. This acceleration recorder is compact, battery powered and records peak acceleration including impact, vibration and shock. The new generation devices offer several improved capabilities over the standard Snap Shock accelerometer model. In addition to measuring peak-g shock levels with a built-in accelerometer sensor, the SSP also measures and records shock duration and velocity change (measure of shock energy) for all events which exceed user defined thresholds. In addition the SSP is now available in tri-axial version referred to as the SnapShock Plus/3D (SSP/3D)acceleration data logger / impact & transportation data recorder.
Each instrument measures and records the peak acceleration levels to which it is exposed along with shock duration and velocity change, and the exact date and time of occurrence. The user may specify recording thresholds in g-level, as well as velocity change, so that only those events which exceed g-level and velocity change thresholds of interest are actually recorded into permanent memory. The SSP acceleration data recorder series utilize a low power design, enabling operation for weeks at a time while running on a single 9-volt battery.


Gold used in technology grew 2% to 83.3t in Q2, the seventh quarter of undisrupted y-o-y growth. This uptick was again driven by strong electronics demand, particularly in the wireless and memory sectors, which defied the traditional summer lull.
Gold used in electronics grew 3% y-o-y to 66.2t in Q2. Demand in the wireless sector enjoyed some 8-12% growth y-o-y, bucking the traditional slow season for smartphone sales. This was driven by strong demand from power amplifiers used in 5G infrastructure and 3D sensors in VR gaming systems and automobiles. In fact, this very strong demand for 3D sensors is not currently being met by supply, boding well for the short to mid-term.
The LED sector once again lagged other technologyrelated areas of demand for gold. Gold volumes were 5-8% lower y-o-y, primarily due to ongoing cost-driven substitution by silver in the high-end OLED market.1
In the memory sector, market dynamics remain positive for gold usage. Increasing output of NAND has driven prices down, and with major manufacturers such as Samsung and SK Hynix ramping up capacity over the coming couple of years, NAND flash prices are forecast to cool further. This should drive wider adoption of solid-state drives in notebooks, thereby supporting gold volumes. DRAM continued to benefit from strong demand, particularly in the server market, which has been boosted by healthy demand for big data and cloud services.
The strong server market also supported demand for PCBs. Together with ongoing growth in the automotive industry and 5G infrastructure deployment, gold used in PCBs was estimated to be 2-5% higher y-o-y.
Barring a 1.8% y-o-y decline in India (to 3.3t), the other countries monitored have registered strong growth. The traditional technology hubs – Mainland China/HK and South Korea – have once again topped the list with volumes of 18.4t (+5.1%) and 6.7t (+5%) respectively. This was followed by the US, which grew 3.0% y-o-y to 14.7t.
Other Industrial & dentistry
Dental demand continued it’s slow but steady decline, recording a 4% fall y-o-y. Other industrial usage of gold was broadly flat, but R&D efforts in developing new uses for gold continue apace.2 Johnson Matthey’s newly commercialised gold catalyst is now in the final stages of testing: more information about this particular technology can be read in the July issue of Gold Investor here.