Press Release

Instrumentation experts backed by the NWDA

PROCESS Instruments has been awarded a grant from the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA), to further develop its innovative instrumentation.

The company which is based in Burnley but operates worldwide provides instruments and service solutions to the water, paper and engineering industries.

All modern industrial instruments communicate to the outside world via a range of different outputs; such as digital alarms, 4-20mA outputs and serial connections. The NWDA awarded the company a micro-grant to research and implement communication advancements to its range of chlorine analysers.

With the help of the £16,290 grant, Process Instruments will add innovative extras to communication outputs, including TCP/IP and GSM/GPRS technology which means the instrument can text message the user when it is in alarm or needs attention. Work completed since the award of the grant means that the analysers can now be accessed remotely from any internet enabled PC without the use of specialist software.

Aitken Scientific, which custom builds software solutions, worked with Process Instruments in developing the products and further researching into communication protocols. Aitken Scientific’s help and advice was crucial in securing a completely successful development program.

Mike Riding, sales manager of Process Instruments said: "We are thrilled that the NWDA has recognised our pioneering work and this further funding means we can beat our competitors to providing cutting edge instrumentation to our target industries.

"We have invested a lot of time into producing a comprehensive business plan to make sure Process Instruments is at the forefront of innovative technology and with the financial boost from the NWDA we should achieve the goals we set out."