Company News
March 16, 2020 | Company News
Neal Systems Inc (NSI) is taking the current situation with COVID-19 very seriously and has taken all necessary precautions to keep our staff and customers safe. We will continue business as usual providing the necessary products and services to keep the industries we support functioning. If you have trouble reaching customer service via phone during this time, please consider using our website forms or email sales@nealsystems.com to reach us more expediently.
NSI’s primary purpose is to support the critical infrastructure (electric utilities, water, wastewater, steam, etc.) and industrial companies (pharmaceutical, food, beverage, chemical, oil/gas, etc.) throughout Virginia to New York — all of which are vital to our nation’s wellbeing during this time. We do this by providing products, service, and engineering capabilities that these companies need to effectively and safely run their plant processes. Neal Systems offers remote technical assistance, on-site support and 24/7 emergency support to many of these customers. Our service and engineering team does have extra capacity to help should you need additional on-site assistance for emergency, shutdown, or upgrade situations.
Currently we are not seeing an increase in lead times from any of our vendors. However, there is a potential for many of the products which include internal electronic components that are sourced overseas to see a delay in manufacturing and thus increased lead times. Because of this, we are advising our customers to place orders for mission critical items as soon as possible. If you are unsure if a product or service you need may be affected, please contact us!
Thanks,
The NSI Leadership Team
March 12, 2020 | Company News
Neal Systems Inc. has officially announced its acquisition of ES2, an equipment, service and systems provider, out of Pipersville, PA. The addition will be a significant benefit to both Neal System’s and ES2‘s customers by increasing our total field service capabilities throughout the region. The immediate benefit of integration will be the increased availability of field service technicians, the addition of internal support staff for our service team, and the expansion of our expertise across new and various industries.
We look forward to working together to better support our customers through increased flexibility, faster speed of response, new service contract options and access to the most cutting-edge hardware and software technologies in the industry.
February 13, 2020 | Company News
Over the past year, Neal Systems has been researching, testing, integrating and deploying combination vibration monitoring systems using both wired and wireless technology. There are benefits and drawbacks of both wired and wireless, but when paired together the accuracy and reliability of your system becomes unmatched.
Wireless vs Wired
The Benefits of Wired Vibration Monitoring
Reliability: The 4-20mA current loop has set the standard for industrial signal reliability. The Neal Systems enhanced solutions are unrivalled in reliability due to its consistent signal accuracy over the typical life span of a loop-powered field instrument.
Continuous Data: The wired solutions provided by Neal Systems record vibration data continuously, ensuring that any sudden changes in the overall vibration levels are captured and recorded. This allows for the most accurate understanding of your equipment function.
The Drawbacks of Wired Vibration Monitoring
Installed Cost: The installation of a new wired sensors on standard wired vibration monitoring usually requires new conduit and expanded I/O on the PLC.
Convenience: Wired data has to be viewed locally, either at the indicator on the instrument or from the control room using SCADA software.
Diagnostic Power: Wired solutions usually use 4-20mA outputs, which simplify the data down to overall levels and loose the frequency information.
The Benefits of Wireless Vibration Monitoring
Installed Cost: Wireless solutions are particularly cost effective.
Convenience: With Neal Systems cloud-based wireless solutions, any device with an internet connection and log-in credentials can access trends and alarms.
Diagnostic Power: Wireless solutions offer more advanced data processing and diagnostic capabilities. This is due to the computational “heavy lifting” that is done by remote servers.
The Drawbacks of Wireless Vibration Monitoring
Reliability: Even the most robust wireless systems are subject to downtime. Whether it’s a neighboring plant blasting electromagnetic noise on your frequency, a box truck conveniently parked next to your base station, or a new construction in the path of your signal.
Non-Continuous Data: Modern data speeds are fast, but not fast enough to continuously transmit the high frequency data sampling rates needed for most vibration applications. To deal with this challenge, most wireless vibration solutions record and transmit small windows of vibration data in regular intervals. The recording window is usually less than 1 sec and the interval between recording windows on the Neal Systems choice solution is 5 minutes.
How do these two vibration monitoring solutions fit together?
In our experience, the best monitoring systems use a combination of both wireless and wired components. The drawback of costs of a wired solution can be minimized with loop-powered Neal Systems enhanced solutions: the Metrix ST5484E and the Metrix MX2034. These options reduce installation and I/O requirements, which in turn lowers costs. These specific styles of sensors also have a long history of providing reliable and accurate alarms for increasing or decreasing vibration.
The wired solutions, Metrix ST5484E and the Metrix MX2034, when paired with the wireless Samsara HM11 and IG21, allow for in-depth diagnostics on regular intervals or in the event of an alarm. Also, by pairing a wireless option with the wired solution you are able to quickly and remotely able to access information on your system.
Choosing to go with the combination wired and wireless solution, will increase efficiency and reliability, which lowers cost and allows for preventative maintenance to occur before equipment malfunctions result in system failure.
Check out this graphic for a quick glance of each solution!
January 27, 2020 | Company News
Neal Systems is proud to announce that in the Fall of 2019, NSI was selected to extend our MTL representation into Virginia. MTL Instruments, an Eaton company, is one of the premiere suppliers of intrinsically safe products and solutions for hazardous areas, as well as providing surge protection for instrumentation, electrical panels, and plant mains.
Neal Systems has been a representative and hazardous area expert for MTL since the mid-80s, and have multiple technical experts and engineers who can assist you with any of your hazardous area needs.
January 20, 2020 | Company News
Industrial biogas is a byproduct of several processes within a variety of industries. If your process includes biogas as a byproduct, then the accurate and consistent measurement of the biogas’ makeup is essential in maximizing its commercial value and ensuring safe and compliant operations of your plant and process.
The Four Main Components: Methane, Oxygen, Hydrogen Sulfide, and Carbon Dioxide
Methane Measurements: Methane (CH4) being the primary component, the measurement of its composition and quality is essential in maximizing the benefits from private and government-backed incentives for this biogas to be used as a fuel source.
Oxygen Measurements: Accurate and reliable measurements of oxygen (O2) is critical in maintaining the appropriate levels of saturation to prevent the generation of explosive mixtures of methane (CH4) and oxygen (O2). These measurements also ensure efficient levels of microbial activity to eliminate the potential for oxygen to poison an anaerobic digestion process.
Hydrogen Sulfide Measurements: The corrosive, flammable and poisonous nature of hydrogen sulfide make it necessary to ensure that the hydrogen sulfide (H2S) level is maintained at level of ideally less than 200ppm, minimizing the potential for corrosion when the condensing gas forms sulfuric acid.
Carbon Dioxide Measurements: Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is used as an effective indicator of efficiency of an anaerobic digester performance. Understanding the performance of the digester is instrumental in keeping your product and plant protected.
The Neal Systems Solution
Neal Systems expertise in engineering, installing, and servicing gas analyzation and detection systems is unrivaled in the industry. Whether you are producing solid products, liquid products, fuel, thermal or electricity our team can provide you with the most accurate and reliable gas analyzers and detection systems available.
Our top choices for gas analyzation and gas detections include: Hitech (aka Eaton MTL Gas), Servomex, and Draeger. With these products, our team can build an efficient and effective solution to keep your process maintained at the highest level to protect and ensure safety and the quality of your product.
For more information on how Neal Systems can provide the best solution for your process, please contact us here!
