Competence in this sense relates to the entire instrument engineering solution:

	to the sensor element in the transducer (advanced technologies),
	the transducer as a window to the process (housing, construction materials),
	the converter (signal processing, instrumentation, installation and operating philosophies),
	the transmission of the measured data (communication, interfaces),
	matching the user's industrial environment (level of automation, regulations).

However competence without compromise goes one step further: not only offering optimum instrumentation but supplying process information that can be relied on. Because a lot depends on it.

This requires know-how of the typical process operations in the industry and an accommodation of the peculiarities specific to the industry. Competence in all industries as understood by Endress+Hauser therefore means, in a nutshell:

	the wide variety of possibilities,
	optimum instrument engineering,
	adaptation to the most varied industries,
	capability for integration and communication,
	dialogue with the customers.