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About B&K Precision
Introduction
Introduction
For more than 60 years B&K Precision has
provided test and measurement solutions
to customers from wide-ranging fields
including research and development,
product design, industrial maintenance,
electronic field service, production line
testing, and the educational community,
among others. Universities and technical
schools worldwide have made our
instruments standard equipment in their
training programs.
Since 1951 the B&K Precision name has
represented quality, consistency, and value.
We take pride in supplying outstanding
products and excellent service at fair prices.
Full certification by the International
Organization for Standardization (ISO
9001:2008) reflects our commitment to
quality. Our mission is to maintain the
standards that have built our reputation,
develop new products to meet advancing
needs, and continue providing the products
and service our customers have come to
trust.
B&K offers a wide range of power test and
general purpose instruments. Our core
products include power supplies and DC
electronic loads, signal generators
(especially function and arbitrary genera-
tors), component testers, oscilloscopes,
spectrum analyzers, and multimeters. We
provide a full complement of device pro-
grammers, video and cable testers, electrical
and battery testers, and environmental
testers. We also supply a comprehensive
array of probes, leads, adapters, and addi-
tional accessories that make testing easier.
We stand behind every product we ship.
Our warranties are valid worldwide, and
we provide global service and support to
guarantee your satisfaction. A growing
number of our instruments come with a
standard 3-year warranty, covering parts
and labor.
Our in-house technicians work directly with
you to provide any necessary calibrations or
repairs, ensuring optimum performance.
History
B&K Precision helped pioneer the electronic
testing industry, and like so many early
electronics firms, B&K started in a garage.
By 1948, when Americans had begun buying
televisions in large numbers, Chicago
entrepreneur Carl Korn and his partner
Philip Ban responded to the need for
maintenance of often-unreliable sets.
Frustrated by a lack of equipment to easily
test television components, Ban and Korn
began making their own testing devices and
opened Central Television Service Company.
They soon had a thriving business selling
CRT rejuvenators and vacuum tube testers
to other television service shops. By 1951,
Korn had developed what would become
B&K Precision into a company that had
branched out into other areas of electronic
testing and measurement. B&K engineers
broke new ground, earning several patents
in the field of television test equipment, and
rapidly pushed the company to become a
worldwide leader in electronic
measurement.
It’s hard to imagine that B&K Precision has
been serving the electronics industry for
over 60 years now. From modest begin-
nings in a TV Repair shop in Chicago, to
today’s modern manufacturing facilities in
Taiwan, France and China; R&D and market-
ing offices in US, Israel and Romania; and
distributors in over 50 countries, B&K have
continued to innovate, strengthen, and ex-
pand our product offerings.
Today’s electronic engineers and students
may not recall the era of cathode ray tubes,
but our company started by making prod-
ucts to test, repair, and even rejuvenate
CRT’s, extending the life-span of TV sets.
With broad changes in technology over the
past 6 decades, we’ve continued to develop
diverse test and measurement solutions, in-
cluding our oscilloscopes, LCR meters, DC &
AC power supplies, signal generators, and
DC electronic loads for solar and battery
testing, to name a few.
Many technical schools and universities
around the world use our instruments, par-
ticularly our function and arbitrary waveform
generators, multimeters and oscilloscopes,
to teach students about fundamental and
advanced electronics. Our commitment to
education has led us to the creation of a
program that rewards enterprising schools
and students with free test equipment.
As we look forward to the future with our
global team of dedicated employees, we are
committed to continuing our work of devel-
oping new, exciting and dependable test
equipment to serve your testing needs.
Sincerely,
Victor Tolan
President and CEO
A message from the President