Every unit your production line ships was manufactured under specific environmental conditions. Make sure you can prove it.
Calibrated USB sensors for manufacturing test stations, production floor monitoring, and industrial quality systems. Trusted by equipment manufacturers, machining operations, and industrial automation teams.
On a production floor, undocumented environmental conditions are not just a paperwork problem. Temperature variation shifts machining tolerances. Humidity affects adhesive curing, coating adhesion, and fiber measurements. Thermal drift during testing changes how a battery, a sensor, or a motor behaves under characterization. When conditions were not recorded during a production run, you cannot know which units were affected.
ISO 9001 requires calibrated instruments and documented environmental records for every quality-affecting process. Until those records exist, you cannot know which production runs were valid and which were not.
The manual measurement gap
Temperature readings taken by hand are not logged, not time-stamped, and not linked to the production run. When a customer’s auditor asks for the environmental record of a test batch, the answer is a blank. One manufacturer described what they had before Dracal: “There were large variation in the readings. we couldn’t trust the data.”
The proprietary platform trap
Industrial acquisition platforms like NI require $5,000 to $25,000 in hardware per station before a single measurement. Deploying across 20 production stations becomes a capital decision, not an engineering one. And every measurement goes through the vendor’s software stack.
Manufacturers should not need a $25,000 data acquisition system
to know the environmental conditions on their production floor.
We work with equipment manufacturers, machining operations, and industrial automation teams who need calibrated environmental data on their production floor.
No added complexity, no proprietary dependencies, no capital expense at every test station.
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Three places on the manufacturing floor where Dracal sensors are deployed
Each application connects directly to your existing automation code and quality management system.
Log temperature, pressure, and humidity at every test station alongside product test data. Every unit that goes through the station gets an environmental record. When a customer’s auditor asks which conditions were present when their batch was tested, the answer is already in the log.
Monitor the shop floor continuously during production runs. When temperature or humidity deviates from your process specification, you know which shift, which batch, and which units were produced during that deviation. Not after the fact.
ISO 9001 requires calibrated instruments at defined intervals. Recalibrate in place. No external lab, no station downtime. ISO 17025 certificates available. Every instrument has a unique serial number for your calibration records.
Robust USB sensors and stations for the production floor
Traceability certificates available in option.
Which one describes your situation?
YOU OPERATE A PRODUCTION FLOOR
Production and Process Automation
You monitor environmental conditions during production runs and need data that links back to specific batches, shifts, or production orders.
- How to connect sensors to your existing automation code, PLC, or SCADA
- Multi-station setup: unlimited simultaneous instruments, one synchronized production log
- Comparison table: Dracal vs. NI, Omega, and commodity sensors for production monitoring
YOU TEST PRODUCTS BEFORE THEY SHIP
Quality Control
You run end-of-line test stations, document environmental conditions per unit or per batch, and need calibration records that hold up in an ISO 9001 surveillance audit.
- Comparison table: Dracal vs. NI, Fluke, and commodity sensors for QC stations
- How to link instrument serial numbers to batch test records
- Calibration certificates and traceability chain for ISO 9001 audits
YOU BUILD COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS FOR PRODUCTION FLOORS
OEM Integration
You manufacture the equipment your customers use in their own quality processes. The sensor you embed needs a serial number, a calibration certificate, and a recalibration model that works in the field.
- COM port (VCP) integration architecture for proprietary product software
- Swap-based field recalibration model with ISO 17025 traceability
- Comparison: Dracal vs. proprietary OEM sensors for embedded measurement
With Dracal sensors on every station, your production floor generates an environmental record alongside every test run. Your team ships with confidence, and your quality system has the documentation to back it up.
That is what a production floor you can stand behind looks like.
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Replacing an obsolete OEM sensor in industrial fiber testing equipment
“Dracal was the solution that checked every constraint. The VCP option communicates via standard COM port protocol, which matched our existing integration. Windows 7 support was confirmed, along with Windows 10 LTSC, which covers our full installed base. ISO 17025 calibration certificates are available with a unique serial number per unit, which some of our institutional customers require for their own quality documentation. The integration was straightforward.“
Automate 20+ test stations with traceable environmental data
“We installed a Dracal PTH200-CAL sensor on each of our test stations, and integrated it into our original LabVIEW configuration. Collected data is automatically aggregated, and graphs are produced daily to keep track of conditions at each test station.
In our overall experience, Dracal sensors have been reliable and easy to use for years on our 20+ test stations.”
Integration of sensors in automotive industrial test equipment
“It became clear that the Dracal sensor was actually working to solve our problem when we witnessed 1) the significant reduction in calibration time, 2) that measurements were more accurate and consistent, and 3) that our customers no longer had to send the entire system for calibration, which was actually a game-changer in terms of operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.”
