After serving as president and chief executive officer for 22 years, Domenic Federico will retire from BriskHeat at the end of the year.

Whether maintaining pipe temperatures in a petrochemical plant on the Gulf of Mexico or a platform off the windswept Scottish coast, facility managers are all too familiar with the challenges such a task poses.

For most industrial temperature measurements, the sensing element is never directly exposed to the process. The electronic element such as a thermocouple (TC), resistance temperature detector (RTD) or thermistor is encased inside a metallic enclosure, typically a section of stainless steel tubing closed at one end.

The equipment complements its existing surface-mount and through-hole PCB component assembly machines.

Temperature measurement accuracy goes beyond just the accuracy of the sensor.