ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFICATION FOR KD2 PRO

Last Friday was a big day here at Decagon--after a year of intense effort, we finally got ISO 9001:2008 certified. If you're not involved in a manufacturing business, you may not know what that means. Here's what it has meant for us:

QUALITY STANDARDS
Quality standards for all components that are built into your KD2 Pro. The KD2 Pro's components are tested when they come in the door to exacting specifications.

MANUFACTURING STANDARDS
Manufacturing standards that detail assembly for every step of the process to manufacture an instrument.

TESTING IS CRITICAL
Testing at critical points within the manufacturing process to be certain everything is made and working together correctly.

There are lots of other details to ISO that are important as well. In the end, I don't think this will change the quality of the KD2 Pro--we've always been pretty stringent about our manufacturing and testing procedures. Decagon's growing fast and we want to maintain quality and consistency as we get bigger.

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THERMAL RESISTIVITY WORKSHOP
If you are interested in improving your thermal resistivity knowledge and skills, this workshop will be of interest to you.

"Measuring RHO (Thermal Resistivity) in soils and backfill materials for power cable engineering."

First RHO International Workshop
Held in Barcelona, Spain
26 thru 27 April 2010

Oral Sessions
* Basic principles of making correct measurements.
* Discussion of factors affecting thermal resistivity measurements.
* Discussion of the current state of standards for measuring thermal resistivity.

Ampacity Calculations
* 2-D numerical approaches for ampacity calculations.
* 3-D modeling for cable crossing.

Lab Exercises
* Use current equipment to measure thermal resistivity.
* Interpret thermal resistivity data.
* Compile useful and relevant modeling data.
* Understand limitations of computer design.
* Click here for more information.