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MET Celebrates 10 Years on the West Coast |
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On May 19th, MET celebrated the West Coast Lab’s 10th Anniversary at the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara, CA. The event honored MET’s employees and customers who have been with us from the beginning. Festivities included a live band, an award presentation and a retrospective movie about MET’s past 50 years. Guests enjoyed cocktails, tapas and desserts. To view all the pictures from the event, please visit the photo gallery. - pictured : Rob Frier, President of MET Labs, honored customers: Banipal Babella, Jeff Collins, Lisa Moratti, Wale Aderemi, Paul Zahra - all who have relied on MET since the opening of our first west coast lab 10 years ago, and at the opposite end, Francisco Lazcon, West Coast Sales Manager. |
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UL Monopoly: Dead But Not Buried |
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On May 16th, 2009, MET Laboratories celebrated the 20th Anniversary of being designated the first Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL) by OSHA. It took MET 18 years to be recognized as an alternative to Underwriters Laboratory (UL). You can benefit from this competition in just weeks. Benefits of using the MET mark,
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| Today, the MET mark for product safety certification is on thousands of listed products being sold by retailers worldwide, including Best Buy, Home Depot, Lowes, Radio Shack, Wal-Mart and the Home Shopping Network (HSN). To learn more about MET’s product safety certification services, please visit: www.METLabs.com/pages/safety.html. First 20 folks to request a product safety NRTL quote will receive a $20.00 AMEX gift certificate. Request a NRTL quote here. |
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Testing the Innovative All Electric Tesla MET is capable of testing automobiles at their Santa Clara, CA laboratory in their 10m chamber. Currently, a Tesla Roadster is undergoing tests in accordance with the European Automotive Directive, including Radiated Emissions and Immunity testing, and for SAE J551-5: Performance Methods of Measurement of Magnetic and Electric Field Strength from Electric Vehicles. The Tesla vehicle is a unique, completely electric sports car. For more information on MET Labs' automobile testing capabilities, please visit www.METLabs.com/pages/automobile.html. |
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MET Adds Another Impressive Listing to its Audio/Visual Roster |
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MET is proud to announce that Paul Reed Smith Guitars has joined an impressive list of manufacturers of audio equipment bearing the MET Mark. MET Labs is proud to be associated with such an iconic company.
MET's long history of listing audio/visual equipment includes eqipment as diverse as digitial satelite receivers, audio light show matrix for night clubs, Sony Playstation Kiosks, high defiinition plasma displays, and flash memory audio players, to name just a few. |
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The MET Mark is accepted throughout North America and Canada. MET typically lists products to: * UL 469 - Musical Instruments and Accessories Learn all the benefits of using MET, visit: http://www.METLabs.com/pages/safety.html. |
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Collaboration Brings New Advancements in RFID Technology
MET Laboratories, AIM Global (Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility) and Georgia Tech are proud to announce their partnership to create the Healthcare Test Protocols Initiative. The devices that will be included in this study will be medical devices (i.e. pacemakers) and clinical instruments (i.e. pumps, MRI). The devices will be tested to determine if the RF emitted causes any negative affects and under what conditions these effects occur. This study will establish baseline requirements for the operation of RF in a medical setting. Once complete, the test protocols will be submitted to the FDA and a certification program will be established. To read AIM Global’s press release, please visit their website at http://www.aimglobal.org. To learn more about MET’s innovative and ground breaking RFID lab, please visit www.METLabs.com/pages/RFID.html.
Based on the feedback from our customers, MET has fabricated new printed circuit board (PCB) clamps for use in their Qualmark Typhoon 2.5 chamber at the Santa Clara facility to be used during HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Testing). These PCB clamps will help to increase the usefulness of the HALT process by allowing one or more PCB’s to be mounted onto the vibration table. The HALT process uses rapid temperature transition and random vibration to ensure a product will not fail under any condition in the field. This testing process attempts to induce failures by employing extreme conditions, therefore reducing development time and cost in the future.
This process is the closest simulation to a real-world environment possible in the industry. Manufacturers can be assured after the HALT process that their product has the same reliability throughout its product life cycle.
How does HALT benefit you? Through the HALT evaluation you will be able to:
and cost reductions
The testing takes between 2-5 days, on average. The chamber, the new Qualmark Typhoon 2.5, features a 4th generation advanced vibration system that ranges in energy from 10Hz to above 5,000Hz. The chamber also has impressive thermal performance and consumes, on average, 30% to 60% of the utilities of other competitive models. In addition to HALT testing, MET’s environmental simulation testing lab has the ability to perform various shaker testing, including, Earthquake, Sine Vibration, Sine on Random Vibration, Random on Random Vibration and Shock (half-sine, saw-tooth, SRS/Transient). To learn more about any of these testing capabilities or to request a tour of one of our facilities, contact info@METLabs.com.
Don’t Forget to Sign In!
MET Labs is proud to announce its newest anniversary promotion. We will be awarding gifts to the 50th customer to sign in every month at the Baltimore, Santa Clara and Union City locations.
Each month $50 gift cards will be awarded for the following:
Save the Date
Mark your calendars for MET’s 50th Anniversary Celebration on the evening of September 17th, 2009. The event will be held at the Museum of Industry in Baltimore, MD. Please stay tuned for additional information on this exciting celebration
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