Birns Inc
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- MTR100 '13: Birns Inc. Marine Technology, Jul 2013 #54
Since 1954, BIRNS has provided solutions trusted in the planet’s most demanding environments—from deep ocean and marine applications to military programs and nuclear power facilities. With sophisticated lines of high performance connectors, custom cable assemblies, ABS PDA certified penetrators and lighting systems, BIRNS is an ISO 9001:2008 certified industry leader committed to a long legacy of developing new technology for highly competitive markets.
The Company
In 2014, BIRNS will celebrate its 60th year in the subsea industry, with a long and successful history of contributing important technology along the way. In the 1950s, the company was first called upon to develop subsea systems for the US Navy, and today the Company is proud to have more than half a century of consecutive partnership with the US Navy, as well as other military organizations worldwide. Recent BIRNS’ lighting contributions include the next generation of extreme depth subsea lighting systems, such as robust LED solutions, and the BIRNS Aurora a high intensity 14,000 lumen Light Emitting Plasma (LEP) deep submergence light. BIRNS launched its Connector Division in 1990, responding to customer and industry demand for quality and reliability. The division quickly met with huge success, and led to the development of several flagship connector lines, including the 6km rated BIRNS Millennium range—miniature, high-density metal shell connectors that set the benchmark for elevated bandwidth delivery. With configurable inserts for both high (= 3.6kV) and low (= 600V) voltage, the typical loss for a cable assembly of the series is < .5 dB. Today, BIRNS leads the industry in the development of fiber optic advances, both in penetrators and connector systems, and has been called upon to develop numerous unique Electro-Opto-Mechanical (EOM) cable assemblies, all with immense performance capabilities, and capable of providing load strengths of >50,000 lbs.
The Tech
BIRNS is trusted globally by customers with demanding marine and offshore applications to provide lighting and connector systems for manned and unmanned submersibles, commercial diving applications, and security requirements. Therefore, BIRNS consistently ensures that its certifications and standards meet or exceed the most exacting industry demands. BIRNS’ cable shop is SUBMEPP-certified to NAVSEA S9320-AM-PRO-020 (one of only seven commercial firms and five US Navy yards to be so certified) and its Quality System is certified to ISO 9001:2008 by DNV and complies with NRC 10CFR50, Appendix B. All BIRNS QA personnel and production technicians are certified to both J-STD-001 Class 3 and WHMA-A-620-A Class 3. The company has held ABS Product Design Assessment (PDA) Certification for its commercial submarine and man-rated SAT-system penetrators for ABS-classed vessels since 2011.
(As published in the July/August 2013 edition of Marine Technologies - www.seadiscovery.com)
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- MTR 100: BIRNS, Inc. - Celebrating 60 Years Marine Technology, Jul 2014 #18
BIRNS has supported the deep submergence oceanic community with products that deliver everything from faster, more robust communication to brilliance in the murky depths. The company’s contributions in the marine market began in the 1950s when it was asked to develop subsea systems for the US Navy for the
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- MTR100: Birns, Inc. Marine Technology, Aug 2015 #64
1720 Fiske Place, Oxnard CA 93033 T: 1-805-487-5393 E: [email protected] W: http://www.birns.com/ CEO/president: Eric Birns Marketing Director: Amy Brown Production Manager: Keith Gear Engineering Manager: Jeff Kirby Facility: Engineering and Manufacturing Square Footage: 11,400 sq. ft. Since
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- Multi-channel Fiber Optic System Design: Going Big in Small Packages Marine Technology, Sep 2014 #28
wherein one transmits on one of the two wavelengths while its mate receives on the other. This doubles the capability of a single fiber connector, like the BIRNS Millennium F-series connector, by changing it from a simplex connection to a duplex connection. However, using BiDi modules still requires one fiber
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- BIRNS Millennium Connectors Marine Technology, Mar 2014 #89
BIRNS, Inc. announced a range of new keying options for its BIRNS Millennium connector series. The BIRNS Millennium series is a six km rated, high density metal shell connector line trusted worldwide for demanding subsea applications, from manned and unmanned submersibles to sensors and towed arrays. The
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- Birns Develops New ABS Certified Optical Penetrators Marine News, Nov 2013 #56
BIRNS, Inc. recently developed a set of ABS certified fiber optic penetrators for a manned submersible. BIRNS, an ISO 9001:2008 certified developer of high performance connectors, custom cable assemblies, penetrators and lighting systems for the subsea market, engineered the exclusive penetrator design
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- SoCal Tech Focus: BIRNS Marine Technology, Mar 2017 #73
Oxnard, Calif. based BIRNS, Inc. opened in 1954, and has been serving the global marine industry ever since with high performance lighting and connector products.The technological advancements in the field of cable assembly development have been rapid and exciting in the last decade in particular. BIRNS has
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September 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 14MTR 100 BIRNS https://birns.com/ BIRNS, Inc. has been helping shape technology in the sub- sea industry since the 1960s, when it began developing ad- vanced lighting systems and other unique marine solutions for the U.S. Navy. In the years to follow, BIRNS’ lighting and connector systems provided
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March 2022 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 54? lers and Booths Q100 & P501 multiparameter sondes. Patented ? eld- Airmar Airmar Technology pushes the boundar- swappable sensors give complete ? exi- BIRNS, Inc. ies of ultrasonic technology to develop bility for their instrument con? gurations. BIRNS is an ISO 9001:2015 certi? ed advanced products
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September 2020 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 59addition to the three Survey Motor includes Multi-Beam and Single-Beam Boats to be delivered to the South African echo-sounders and Side-Scan Sonar and Birns Navy Hydrographic Of? ce (SANHO), this a Seabed Sampler to recover sample program also provides for the delivery of material from the sea-? oor
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January 2022 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 64Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.advancednavigation.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Please visit us online 3 . . . . . .BIRNS, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.birns.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Please visit us
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November 2021 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 64Index page MTR NovDec2021:MTR Layouts 11/23/2021 6:20 PM Page 1 Advertiser Index PageCompany Website Phone# 7 . . . . . .BIRNS, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.birns.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Please visit us online 27 . . . . .Blueprint
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March 2021 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 64Index page MTR MarApr2021:MTR Layouts 3/23/2021 10:34 AM Page 1 Advertiser Index PageCompany Website Phone# 3 . . . . . .BIRNS, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.birns.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Please visit us online 15 . . . . .
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January 2021 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 64Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . .www.airmar.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(603) 673-9570 7 . . . . . .BIRNS, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.birns.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Please visit
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July 2020 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 47100 MTRMTR BIRNS, Inc. www.birns.com Eric Birns, President/CEO Today, BIRNS is an ISO 9001:2015 certi? ed leader in the de- system. This test system successfully allows 48 hour+ con- sign and manufacturing of high performance connector, cable tinuous testing of connectors and cable assemblies at 6km in
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March 2020 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 64Index page MTR March2020:MTR Layouts 2/27/2020 9:01 AM Page 1 Advertiser Index PageCompany Website Phone# 11 . . . . .BIRNS, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.birns.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Please visit us online 49 . . . . .Blue
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October 2019 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 64Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . .www.airmar.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(603) 673-9570 5 . . . . . .BIRNS, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.birns.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Please visit
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July 2019 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 62MTR 100 BIRNS, Inc. Oxnard, Calif. President & CEO: Eric Birns Chief Marketing Of? cer: Amy Brown http://birns.com BIRNS Established in 1954, BIRNS, Inc. is a leader in the design become ABS Product Design Assessment (PDA) certi? ed, and and manufacturing of connectors, custom cable assemblies and
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April 2019 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 57come one of the principal innovators in the subsea imaging and measure- ment industry. It is headquartered is in BIRNS, Inc. Kildare, Ireland with of? ces in the U.S., BIRNS started out in the subsea the U.K., China and Australia. industry creating underwater cam- Currently the company is building
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May 2019 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 64Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . .www.airmar.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(603) 673-9570 5 . . . . . .BIRNS, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.birns.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Please visit
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September 2018 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 64Index page MTR SEPTEMBER18:MTR Layouts 9/6/2018 3:38 PM Page 1 Advertiser Index PageCompany Website Phone# 7 . . . . . .BIRNS, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www.birns.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Please visit us online 31 . . . . .