英国Valeport
英国Valeport公司是一家历史悠久的专业水文测量仪器生产厂。产品涵盖陆地水文和海洋水文应用。

Valeport, the UK's leading manufacturer of hydrometric and oceanographic instrumentation.

History
Valeport was established in Dartmouth in 1969 with a small product range based around the 'Braystoke' impeller flow meters. Since then, the company has grown considerably with products covering many aspects of environmental, river, estuarine, coastal, hydrographic and oceanographic instrumentation, and a customer base that includes many leading academic, research and commercial organisations throughout the world.

Philosophy
Valeport has an ongoing research and development programme into sensors and instruments, and has long established links with universities, institutes and other research organisations, to ensure the product range is continuously updated to meet user requirements.

Skills & Facilities
Since its inception, Valeport has maintained a policy of investment in a wide range of in-house skills and facilities that include electronic and mechanical design, development, manufacture, assembly, test and calibration. This gives the company direct control of all engineering activities and thus enables it to provide long term product support. The adjacent River Dart, its estuary and the proximity of the open sea, enable field testing and evaluation of oceanographic instrumentation to be carried out.

Specific facilities include:
Design
Mechanical and electronic CAD
Analogue and digital electronics
Micro-controller and application software
Development
High specification electronics test equipment
Environmental chambers
Field testing - river, port, estuary and sea
Manufacture
Full mechanical workshop
Static-free environment for all electronic handling, testing & assembly
PCB assembly and wave soldering
Surface mount device placement and reflow
Calibration
Calibration of conductivity, salinity, temperature and pressure using industry standard methods.
Calibration of flow using tow tank
Calibration of compass using 3-axis magnetic field rig
Installation and Service
Field installation
Maintenance and support
Service and repair