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GALAXY® GX2
Automated Test System
Product Presentation
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GALAXY GX2
GALAXY® GX2
Automated Test System
Advanced Safety Management
Effortless Operation
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GALAXY GX2 Overview
 Replaces the current MSA GALAXY System
 Simplifies bump testing and calibration
 Offers new features such as full data access and
management
 Provides a proactive vs. reactive safety platform
 Delivers a vastly improved user experience
 Enables customers to save time, gas and money
 Serves the entire ALTAIR family of products
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Same Great GALAXY Features
 Testing is fully automatic
• No user intervention is required at the test stand
 Tests up to 10 instruments simultaneously
• Based on MSA’s patented gas delivery system
• Supplies enough gas to all ten test stands
• Saves time and money
 True standalone operation
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• No PC required for test stand operation
• Datalog access (MSA Link Pro) requires PC
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NEW Features of GALAXY GX2
 Ease of use improvements
• Color touch screen with 18 language options
• Easy access to all data with the MSA Link Pro
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Dashboard view of alerts and other key information
• Easy system setup
 Cost-of-ownership savings
• Faster testing and calibration – Saves time
• Reduced calibration gas use – Saves Money
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 Proactive gas detection fleet management by addressing:
• Gas exposure issues and trending
• Missing/failed calibrations and bump tests
• Low calibration gas volumes and gas expiration warnings
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GALAXY® GX2
Background
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GALAXY GX2
Definition – Bump Test & Calibration
 Bump Test – Qualitative function check
• Check unit’s ability to respond to a challenge gas
within a given amount time.
For typical applications, a bump test is sufficient to
determine the general functionality of the detector.
• A bump test confirms that gas entries are free and
that the sensor(s) are functioning.
 Full Calibration – Accuracy adjustment
• Adjustment of the sensor(s) output to match the known
traceable calibration gas concentration.
Full calibration ensures maximum accuracy of the
instrument.
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Why Bump Test and Calibrate?
 There are many corporate, local, or regional recommendations
and/or requirements for bump testing and calibrations
 Why bump test?
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All sensors will eventually fail. Some fail suddenly and some fail over a
long period of time. Bump testing will alert the user of a non-functional
sensor. This failed condition could be a loss of sensitivity, a loss of
response time, or both.
Gases or vapors must be able to reach the sensor. Bump testing will alert
the user if a gas inlet has become blocked, even if the blockage is not
visible to the human eye.
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 Why calibrate?
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All sensors will have some amount of drift over time. Calibration ensures
that the instrument is reading as accurately as possible.
Situations like over-exposures, introduction of poisons, heavy impacts, or
extreme environmental changes can cause sensors to be less accurate.
Calibration will correct for these potential uncontrollable effects.
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Why use an Automated Test System?
 Makes bump testing and calibration so easy, that anyone can do it
 Records/stores bump testing and calibration records for traceability
 Tracks bump testing and calibrations over an entire fleet of
instruments, and can provide alerts of failures or overdue units
 Can print bump receipts or calibration labels to provide visual
indication of compliance
 Can download alarm indications, datalogs, and other information
from the instruments into customizable reports so that the entire
instrument fleet can be easily and proactively managed
 Track gas usage, gas expiration, end of sensor life warnings, sensor
replacements, and instrument history to reduce down-time and
overall maintenance costs
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Overview – Instrument Self-Test
 Many detectors on the market today, including MSA,
perform an automatic self-test.
 MSA gas detectors perform a self test at instrument turn-on
or after the “test” button is pressed.
 Self-tests generally check the electronic circuit and that sensors are
present. They also typically light the display and sound the alarms so
they can be verified by the user.
 Today’s self-tests cannot confirm gas entries are free from any
blockages or that the sensor(s) are responding to gas.
 A Bump test is necessary to confirm that gas is reaching the sensor
and that the sensor is functional.
 Fresh Air Set-up (FAS) is not a bump test. It only refreshes the zero
point and does not indicate sensor functionality.
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MSA Recommendation
 Bump test frequency is often stipulated by national or corporate
regulations; however, bump testing before each day’s use is the
accepted best safety practice to verify proper instrument operation.
• Customers who want to maintain the maximum amount of accuracy
may choose to calibrate each day instead of bump testing.
• A calibration should be performed after a failed bump test.
 A full calibration should be performed at regular intervals according
to national standards or internal company policies, and after any
failed bump tests.
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If high accuracy is desired, a daily calibration is allowed and will not
damage the sensors or shorten their life.
• If a calibration of one or more sensors repeatedly fails, the sensor(s)
need to be replaced or instrument should be removed for servicing.
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GALAXY® GX2
Description
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Simplicity Counts
 GALAXY GX2 Test System provides simple and intelligent
• Automated bump testing
• Automated calibration
• Automated data download option
• Gas detection fleet management including
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Complete system and gas detection control
Total data access
Dashboard overview for clear, fast information if any action is
required
Report generating
Automated email notifications
 Provides traceability, complete documentation and reliability for
ALTAIR family gas detectors
• ALTAIR, ALTAIR PRO, ALTAIR 4/4X, ALTAIR 5/5X
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GALAXY GX2 Test Stand
Robust industrial
housing
Status LED
Green - Test stand fully functional
Touch screen
display
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Blinking Green - Test Stand is
testing or datalog downloading
Blinking yellow - Test stand error
Red - last calibration or bump test
failed
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GALAXY GX2 Test Stand
Test stand to
test stand
connection
SD Card port
USB port
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Gas plugs – need to be
in place if test stand is
the farthest right
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GALAXY GX2 Test Stand
Fresh Air Filter –
at top port if no further
cylinder holder used
Barb Fittings –
Ensure all five barb fittings are
in place and straightened
before connecting a Cylinder
Holder or another Test Stand
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GALAXY GX2 Test Stand
Power supply
connection
Test Stand Ethernet Ports –
Needed for use with optional MSA Link Pro.
Connect and communicate between multiple test stands.
One USB port on the Master Test Stand is used to communicate
with the MSA Link Pro software application on a PC.
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GALAXY GX2 Test Stand
 The GALAXY GX2 System test stand comes with
• Pre-configured plugs, barbs, fresh air filter
• Power supply with corresponding plug
(NA, EN, UK, Australia)
• Spare parts kit (gas tubing, barbs, plugs)
• Ethernet cable
(For connection between test stands)
• Product CD
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• Quick-Start Guide
• Screen protector
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Important System Components
 Smart electronic cylinder holder
• Includes integrated gas regulator
• For use with RFID-tagged
MSA calibration gas cylinders
 Non-electronic cylinder holder
(without regulator)
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Other Gas Delivery Options
 Manual gas set-up allowed for non-MSA gases
• Each of four gas channels will have
six entry slots for gases
• Expiration date only provided via RFID Tag
 Can still directly connect gas to GALAXY GX2
• To reduce cost, cylinder holder not required
• Large, floor standing cylinders can be connected
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More Important System Components
 MSA Link Pro Software key
• Allow advanced, procactive
safety management
 Digital secure USB key
• Allows users to configure and
change gas detector settings
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• Ensures only authorized users
can change settings;
Security step in addition to
the four-digit password.
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System Components
 Multi-unit charger
• For charging ALTAIR 4/4X or ALTAIR 5/5X
 Test stand printer and printer cable
 Detector sticker label roll
(2800 labels/roll)
 Receipt & sticker label roll
(375 labels/roll)
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System Components
 End cap
• Protects memory card and all
external connections
 4 GB SD card
• Save calibration and bump records
 Laminated quick start guide
 Type Omega DIN rail
(perforated, steel, zinc-plated)
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• In 0.5 m, 1 m and 2 m
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GALAXY® GX2
Features & Benefits
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Ease of Use
 Pre-connected gas tubing and communication path
• Fast, easy and error-free setup, simple extension
 Combine up to 10 different test stands and
four cylinder holders into one GALAXY GX2 bank
• Easily expandable system
• Extreme flexibility
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Ease of Use
 Color Touch Screen
• Intuitive menu-driven operation;
minimal training needed
• Enhanced user experience at the test stand
 Multilingual - 18 languages
• Simplifies use and reduces training
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Ease of Use
 Automatic start for instrument testing;
no touch operation at the test stand
• Simple to use touch-free testing
• Minimal training needed
 Can be set-up to meet the specific needs of the user
• Function as a completely stand-alone system
(no PC required)
• With a local PC or
• As a complete network solution
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Ease of Use
 MSA Link Pro Software
• Easy access: test data, field datalogs, system configuration
• Easy point-and-click data sorting
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Cost of Ownership Reduction
 Optimized for MSA XCell Sensors
• Fast response time combined with
• Smart stability-based calibration algorithms in the
GALAXY GX2
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Faster bump tests
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Faster span calibration time
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Minimize time and gas usage…saves you money
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Cost of Ownership Reduction
 Simultaneous testing or calibration of up to
10 gas detectors in parallel
• Saves employee’s time and overall maintenance costs
 Remote setting changes of instruments via
digital secure USB key
• Easy change of setting to an entire instrument fleet
• Reducing downtime, maintenance time and costs
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Cost of Ownership Reduction
 Fully automated calibration gas
recognition by MSA RFID-tagged
calibration gas cylinder
• Automatically enters gas cylinder
information
• Providing exceptionally easy setup
and ensures the use of correct gas
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• Easily track gas usage and gas
expiration
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Proactive Safety - MSA Link Pro Software
 Dashboard view, with ability to filter
• End-user knows at a glance if action is required
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Proactive Safety - MSA Link Pro
 Advanced MSA Link Pro Software
• At a glance dashboard overview
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Clear, fast information if any action required
• Proactively manage safety by addressing
gas exposure information and missing or
failed calibrations and bump tests
• Query the system for gas exposures or
detectors overdue for bump/cal, and then
email responses to users
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Manage Safety = MSA Link Pro
 Give customers access to the data they want
and make it usable
• Access to all Testing Data
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Bump & Calibration Records
• Access to all Datalog
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Lo, High, TWA, STEL Exposures
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Session & Periodic
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• Access to GALAXY banks
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View gas pressure and expiry status (MSA gas)
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Configure GALAXY systems remotely
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 Ability to sort and report with one click
• End-user customizable
• Print and/or save individual calibration &
bump reports
• Calibration/Bump Records
• Print and/or save exposure records
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Proactive Safety – MSA Link Pro Software
 Reporting page example
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Proactive Safety – MSA Link Pro Software
 Reporting page example
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Proactive Safety – Smart Cylinder Holder
 Electronic cylinder holder offers:
• RFID tag readings (on MSA labeled calibration gas)
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Fully automated calibration gas setup providing part numbers,
gas types, concentrations, expiration date and lot number
Reduction of user errors
Traceability
• Live diagnostics by active monitoring
of pressure and gas expirations
• Low calibration gas volume and expiration warnings
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Proactive Safety – Smart Cylinder Holder
 Pre-warn – visual clues to cal gas status via
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Light band and three LED colors – green, yellow, red
Email alerts
MSA Link Pro software dashboards alerts
 View status at a glance
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Proactive Safety
 Print calibration stickers
for gas detectors
and cal & bump receipt
 Provide easy and fast
user information
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Cal Sticker
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Proactive Safety
 End-of-Sensor-Life Warnings
• Reports or notifications can be generated for
XCell sensor End-of-Sensor-Life warnings
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Allows proactive maintenance & reduced downtime
 Automated e-mail alerts
• List of conditions and events can be sent via the
test stand or MSA Link Pro software
with an active network connection
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Integrated Multi-Charger
 Cost- and space-effective design
 Can be used:
• Independently
• Attached to GALAXY GX2 bank
 Available for
• ALTAIR 4/4X or ALTAIR 5/5X
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GALAXY® GX2
Practical Use
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How Does It Work?
 GALAXY GX2 looks for instrument via IR
 Once inserted, GALAXY GX2 reads instrument configuration
and starts automatically
 Instrument is automatically tested according to the setup of
the GALAXY GX2
• Bump test only
• Calibration only
• Bump test and if instrument failed, calibration of instrument
• Automatic instrument data download option can be set-up
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Easy Operation
 Insert instrument into test stand*
 Wait for pass/fail indication
 Green (PASS) means
 Red (FAIL) means
*Note – For ALTAIR and ALTAIR Pro models, the button on the instrument
must be pressed prior to inserting unit into the test stand
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GALAXY® GX2
Review – Unique Features
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Ease of Use
Effortlessly Test, Calibrate, Download
 Extremely simple to use
• Automatic start
• Operates without the touch of a single button at the test stand
 Color touch screen
• Enhances user experience at the test stand
 18 languages available for test stand and MSA Link Pro
• Simplifies usage and reduces training
 Very flexible system
• Completely stand-alone system – No PC or controller required
• Can also be used with local PC or as a complete network solution
• Combine up to 10 different test stands and 4 cylinder holders
into one GALAXY GX2 bank
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Cost of Ownership
Save Time, Save Gas, Save Money
 Optimized for MSA XCell Sensors
• Up to 50% reduction in cost of ownership, based on reduced
calibration gas expenses and reduced testing and calibration time
 Simultaneously test or calibrate up to 10 gas detectors
• Saves employee’s time and overall costs
 Fully automated calibration gas recognition
by MSA RFID-tagged calibration gas cylinder
• Exceptionally easy setup; ensures correct gas usage
• Easily track gas consumption and gas expiration
• Built-in pressure transducer alerts for low gas volume
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Proactive Safety
Command, Control, Configure
 MSA Link Pro Software
• Proactively manage safety by addressing gas exposure
information and missing or failed calibrations and bump tests
• At a glance dashboard overview
◘ Clear, fast information if any action required
• Total record-keeping for compliance and trending
◘ Complete documentation; one-click easy access and reporting
◘ Automated email alerts
◘ Highlights if certain action required
 Low calibration gas volume and expiration warnings
• Provided by the GALAXY GX2 System and via advanced MSA
Link Pro Software
 Print calibration stickers for gas detectors
• Provides easy and fast user information
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GALAXY® GX2
Automated Test System
Advanced Safety Management
Effortless Operation
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