Our approach to monitoring vibration
At Hilti, we understand how difficult it is to measure trigger time (the time it takes to do something). For example, employees might use various tools onsite, meaning on-tool measurement isn’t sufficient. Having spoken to our customers, we’ve established that it’s much easier to measure the quantity of holes drilled, rather than trigger time. So, rather than saying a drill can be used for an hour, we say that you can drill 150 holes at 10mm diameter/100mm deep - thus counting how many holes have been drilled or the distance cut. This is way more practical and looks at how much a person can use a tool before reaching the limit.
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