Custom Design: Over 80% of the Paine Electronics business is in developing custom designed transducers. Our on-site machine shop, hybrid microcircuit facility and Specialty Production Department are dedicated resources to providing cost-effective custom transducers - even in small quantities.

Design challenges frequently faced by Paine Electronics’ custom transducer, engineers include dual- or quad-channel redundant, unusually small or large transducers, ability to withstand corrosive media, or intrinsically safe transducers.

Expert Machining: Paine Electronics' fully-staffed machine shop includes technologically advanced manufacturing equipment, allowing us to customize transducers to unique physical requirements. This expanding technology has allowed us to provide specialized transducers such as miniature transducers for oil well down-hole logging equipment and the utilization of specialized metals for casings and components to withstand even the most extreme conditions.

Our CNC lathe's are capable of machining strain-gage diaphragms to tolerances within 0.0001 inch. Other specialized machining and tooling processes are capable of handling special materials, such as titanium and Inconel®. Enhanced welding processes include semiautomatic tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding, that creates a clean and even weld using the machined flanges on a transducer casing itself as the weld filler metal.

Hybrid Manufacturing: With the internal capability to produce thick film hybrid microcircuits, more than 65% of Paine's transducers are designed with built-in electronic signal conditioning. Our experience in creating uniquely shaped circuits for pressure transducers has established our reputation in producing hybrids in unusual configurations. Innovative designs continue to reduce physical size and increase reliability through resistance to shock and vibration.

Virtually every hybrid manufacturing process is completed in-house - from printing and firing our own ceramic substrates to populating boards with advanced hybrid circuit technology. This provides increased design flexibility and service, and ensures that Paine’s pressure instrumentation will consistently outperform in challenging applications and environments. Our in-house capability also enables us to respond to your needs quickly, even if you need a small number of sensors or need us to manufacture your own design.

Unsurpassed Quality:  Paine transducers are engineered to withstand extreme environments, and accordingly are built with special alloys to ensure longevity and reliability.

Inconel 718 alloy has consistently proven to provide excellent stability and is accordingly our preferred metal where long term stability is important. For example, we have used it extensively in our Miniature Down-hole Pressure Transducer, where H_²S and other harsh fluids exist in down-hole well-logging environments. Inconel is also used for metal-to-metal seals, eliminating the standard o-ring that can extrude or cause leakage under high pressure.

Titanium is used in our oceanographic transducers due to its compatibility with sea water. The titanium sensing elements enable each sub-sea pressure transmitter to provide extremely accurate measurements with virtually no hysteresis.

For applications where adverse weather, intense vibration or electromagnetic interference might occur, hermetically sealed stainless steel casings protect the precise internal instrumentation.