Custom Sensors for Product Integration

PCB designs and manufactures HUMS accelerometers that meet specialized requirements for performance, reliability, and packaging, depending on the particular aircraft and standards involved.

Vibration and pressure monitoring of aircraft gas turbine engines, industrial turbines, rocket propulsion systems, and automotive exhaust systems require accelerometers and pressure sensors that are designed to withstand very high temperature environments, such as PCB's UHT-12™ sensors.

Employing an effective condition-based maintenance system to monitor critical propulsion components, requires the installation of reliable sensors. As Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) become tasked with longer autonomous missions, the need for additional sensors to monitor critical processes will become even greater. PCB designs and manufactures a wide range of sensors and sensing systems for applications such as shipboard machinery health monitoring.

PCB serves OEM component requirements of fuzing manufacturers. All fuzing systems perform four basic functions: safing, arming, recognition or sensing of the target, and initiation of the warhead. The accelerometers used in these fuzing systems endure high-velocity impact and penetration environments that require damped piezoresistive (PR) shock sensors to capture the complete pulse width while suppressing high-frequency energy that causes ringing.

Highlighting one of the major Modernization Priorities of the US Army, the Next-Generation Combat Vehicle Program Initiative aims to usher in the next-generation family of ground combat vehicles to replace and advance the United States' current level of Ground Combat Warfare capabilities. PCB manufactures sensors that support R&D testing of this critical combat vehicle directive and also produces custom sensors designed as integral OEM components for field deployment. Watch our defense vehicle video for more details.

Liquid and solid propellant rocket engines provide the power to boost launch vehicles into space. The high-amplitude vibration in the combustion chambers of large-thrust liquid rocket engines (LREs) has been a top concern of aerospace structural engineers for many years. Excessive vibration poses a serious threat to the structural safety of the engine and the reliability of system operation. PCB manufactures accelerometers to quantify these vibration levels while operating under the extreme cryogenic temperatures associated with R&D testing and onboard monitoring of space vehicles.

Press Release: PCB Accelerometers Successfully Operating after 6 years on the GOES-R Series Weather Satellites