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News Release from: AV Technology
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 26 November 2004
Approval opens up UK rail industry
market
AV Technology (AVT) is now Link-up approved, making it eligible to supply its structural monitoring and remote visual inspection services to the UK rail industry.
Stockport based AV Technology (AVT) is now Link-up approved, making it eligible to supply its structural monitoring and remote visual inspection services to the UK rail industry Link-up is the UK Rail industry supplier qualification and verification scheme, designed to assure the quality of products and services purchased by the rail industry
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 11 Feb 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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It is administered on behalf of the rail industry by the Achilles Link-up Team and is supported and used by around 80 of the major rail companies throughout the UK.
AVT provides a wide spectrum of services and the company has extensive experience in monitoring bridges, buildings, structures and machines.
Its core competency is centred on understanding how to measure large amounts of diverse and critical data, and then how to analyse and interpret this to provide meaningful information for third party contractors.
The company has recently introduced a noncontact remote laser displacement monitoring service.
This technique is ideal for the accurate three-dimensional monitoring of sections of rail track, in real time.
Other core services include the commissioning of bespoke instrumentation and data logging systems for many diverse structural monitoring applications.
These involve the monitoring of parameters such as strain, load, displacement, position, inclination, vibration, acceleration, temperature and pressure.
Many projects include remote monitoring options, where data can be accessed directly via modem from AVT's head office in Stockport.
AVT personnel are currently completing the necessary training so that they can be issued with NCCA (National Competency Control Agency) Sentinel cards, allowing them access to rail sites.
The NCCA was established in 1999 as part of Project Sentinel and is run by Capita on behalf of Network Rail.
The agency issues Sentinel cards to authorised bodies following training events carried out by approved training providers. Request free introductory details about products from AV Technology ...
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