Fluke - The Fluke Corporation Profile
Fluke Corporation is the world leader in the manufacture, distribution and service of electronic test tools and software. Fluke has helped define and grow a unique technology market, providing testing and troubleshooting capabilities that have grown to mission critical status in manufacturing and service industries. The Fluke brand has a reputation for portability, ruggedness, safety, ease of use and rigid standards of quality.
Fluke's comprehensive line of digital multimeters, electrical power analyzers, thermal imagers, insulation resistance testers, accessories, and integrated ScopeMeter handheld test tools, are being used by a growing number of service technicians, plant engineers and installation and maintenance technicians. These tools provide the ability to troubleshoot complex new systems and detect problems quickly.
Fluke Serves The Industry
The Fluke product line is beneficial for professionals in a variety of markets. Some of these markets, and the tools they utilize, include:
- Industrial/Electronic Service Installation and Maintenance - Fluke's comprehensive lines of digital multimeters, electrical power analyzers, thermal imagers, insulation resistance testers, accessories, plus the integrated ScopeMeter handheld test tools, are being used by a growing number of service technicians, plant engineers and installation and maintenance technicians. These tools provide them the ability to troubleshoot these complex new systems and detect problems quickly.
- Electrical and Temperature - Fluke products such as: electrical testers, digital multimeters (DMMs), clamp meters, single and three-phase power quality meters, ScopeMeter test tools, current clamps, thermal imagers, digital thermometers, and DMM accessories are designed for day-to-day field troubleshooting and maintenance of electrical systems, electrical power systems, HVAC/R systems, and associated equipment. Fluke products help electrical technicians analyze, troubleshoot, and repair these systems for optimum performance.
- Indoor Air Quality - Fluke introduced a line of indoor air quality (IAQ) test tools during 2005, with the goal of providing HVAC, building maintenance and IAQ professionals with a comprehensive portfolio of precision instruments for troubleshooting and maintaining indoor air quality. Fluke IAQ tools will help these professionals achieve outstanding performance by delivering the accuracy, reliability, toughness, safety, usability and value for which Fluke tools are famous.
- Calibration - The Fluke Calibration line of calibrators, standards, waveform generators, calibration software products, and support equipment provide exacting standards for companies and government organizations that rely on tightly calibrated instruments for their quality and standards programs, as well as to meet strict international quality requirements.
- Biomedical - Fluke Biomedical leads the world in the manufacture of biomedical test and simulation products, including electrical safety testers, patient simulators, performance analyzers, and fully-integrated and automated performance testing and documentation systems. Fluke Biomedical also provides some of the most trusted and accurate diagnostic imaging, radiation safety, and oncology quality-assurance solutions for regulatory compliance. Fluke Biomedical provides a diverse range of software and hardware tools to meet today's challenges.
This photo shows a technician using Fluke products in the field.History of the Fluke Corporation
Fluke was incorporated in Washington State by John Fluke on October 7, 1953 as the John Fluke Manufacturing Company, Inc. It started with electronics testing equipment such as power ohmmeters, and followed later by ammeters.
With Bell Laboratories recently introducing the transistor in 1947, scientists were able to develop testing and measuring devices that were accurate to within one-millionth of a unit of measurement, or less. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, therefore, demand growth for testing and measuring equipment tracked the surge in the production of solid-state electronics products and equipment. The testing and measuring devices were used to help in the design, manufacture, testing, and servicing of electrical and electronic products.
Market growth slowed in the early 1970s, but Fluke was able to sustain profitability by introducing new products and maintaining its dominance of a few key product categories. By the end of the decade the total market for test and measurement equipment had grown to $6 billion. Fluke's share of that figure was a healthy $150 million annually by the end of the 1970s. Industry sales continued to increase in the 1980s.
Fluke was bought by the Danaher Corporation in 1998 who brought its Danaher Business System approach to Fluke, changing company practices from line to cell manufacturing and embracing Kaizen, the discipline of continuous incremental improvements to eliminate waste.
Today, Fluke is a billion dollar company and its markets range from industrial and commercial facility operations to precision measurement and calibration (Fluke Calibration), data communications (Fluke Networks), to medical equipment (Fluke Biomedical). Newer contributions by Fluke to test and measurement technology in the last 10 years include thermal imaging and remote wireless displays.
The photo above depicts the original VAW Meter, the first product from Fluke Engineering Company in 1948.Fluke Products
Fluke offers the latest in non-contact infrared (IR) thermometers (sometimes known as infrared pyrometers) and contact thermometers, probes, accessories, and application expertise for a complete range of temperature applications. Temperature is often the first and easiest-to-find indication of a developing problem and can be quickly used as a screening technique for situations that will benefit from further analysis with other Fluke tools such as a digital multimeter or clamp meter. A non-contact IR thermometer allows you to stay a safe distance from the object and get the most accurate readings across a wide range of temperatures, thus, the term non contact.
Fluke handheld oscilloscopes cover a wide range of plant maintenance and field service applications including industrial electrical and electro-mechanical equipment, process control and automation electronics, as well as servicing medical imaging equipment, avionics and monitoring systems. Oscilloscopes graphically show you problems you can't detect with other tools. Oscilloscopes capture and display waveforms, noise and other disturbances in great detail.
Power Quality is a measure of how well a system supports reliable operation of its loads. A power disturbance or event can involve voltage, current, or frequency. Power disturbances can originate in consumer power systems, consumer loads, or the utility. Power disturbances are defined in terms of magnitude and duration. Disturbances range from transients that last for microseconds to outages that continue for hours. When a power disturbance falls outside operating limits, equipment may be disrupted or damaged. Fluke offers an extensive range of excellent power meters and other power quality tools for troubleshooting, preventive maintenance, and long-term recording and analysis in industrial applications and utilities.
Fluke Product Overview
- Cable Testers - Datacom Cabling, IT Networking, Telecom, Copper, Fiber, WLAN
- Calibration Instruments - Electrical, RF, Temperature, Pressure, Flow, Process
- Clamp Meters - Fluke 376, Fluke 381, Fluke 365
- Digital Multimeters - Fluke 289, Fluke 87V, Fluke 28II, Fluke 179, Fluke 233, Fluke 117
- Electrical Testers - Fluke VoltAlert Family, Fluke T5, Fluke 9040, Fluke ACC-T5 Kit
- HVAC - IAQ Tools - Fluke 985, Fluke 975, Fluke 922, Fluke 116, Fluke 971, Fluke RLD2
- Insulation Testers - Fluke 1555/1550C, Fluke 1587/1577, Fluke 1507/1503
- IR Windows - CLKT IR, CLKTO IR, CLV IR
- Laser Distance Meters - Fluke 411D, Fluke 416D, Fluke 421D
- Portable Oscilloscopes - Fluke 190 Series II, Fluke 120 Series, Fluke 125 Series
- Process Calibration - Fluke 754, Fluke 753, Fluke 726, Fluke 719, Fluke 773, Fluke 789
- Radiation Safety - Fluke 481 Radiation Detection Meter
- Thermal Imaging - Fluke Ti100 Series, Fluke P3 Series, Ti Series, FlexCam Series
- Thermometers - Fluke 62 MAX+, Fluke 561, Fluke 568, Fluke 566, Fluke 50, Fluke 574
- Vibration - Fluke 805 Vibration Meter, Fluke 810 Vibration Tester
Major Industries Served by the Fluke Corporation
Fluke serves these major industries:
- Aerospace
- Automation
- Data Centers
- Education
- Ethanol
- Food and Beverage
- Healthcare
- Light Rail
- Mining
- Petrochemical
- Pharmaceutical
- Process
- Waste Treatment
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