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Sierra Instruments - The Secret to More Stable Foam
Deep in a Belgian forest in a thousand year old Trappist Monastery, the brewmaster at Oval Brewery was looking for the secret to more stable foam.
Ghislain Piot, a sales agent for Sierra products, offered his help. Already familiar with the successful application of Sierra mass flow controllers at Heineken
, Europe's largest brewer, he suggested they install the Sierra Max-TrakTM Model 180 to gently add nitrogen to what beer experts worldwide regard as liquid gold.
Mission Critical: You Can Say That Again!For the last 25 years, NASA has relied on the accuracy of Sierra Side-TrakModel 830 and 840 thermal mass flow meters to get the right mixture of nitrogen, argon and oxygen to their shuttles during ground testing. Six years ago, Steve Chism, a sales agent for Sierra in Orlando, Florida, identified a way NASA could upgrade the outdated technology they 
were using to maintain positive space shuttle cargo door air flow on re-entry. He was convinced that Sierra's Model 708 thermal mass flow meter was ideal for this mission-critical function.
Sierra's new Innova-Sonic
In-Line is targeted to customers as an alternative choice for typical liquid Mag-Meter applications where high performance and affordable pricing are important. The +/- 0.5% of reading accuracy is as good as any typical magnetic flowmeter, but the ability to measure down to zero flow and virtually any clean liquid regardless of conductivity sets Sierra's Innova-
A nominee for the 2008 Flow Control Innovation Awards, the Model 206 is literally an order-of-magnitude improvement in transit-time ultrasonic flow measurement. Sierra's proprietary PicoFlyTM technology is an industry first. 