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News Release from: M+P International | Subject: VCP_PC, VibPilot, VibRunner and VibExec
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 July 2003
Having Your Vibration Test Cake And
Eating It
Critical environmental vibration tests can often only be run once to avoid un-wanted fatigue life reduction.
Critical environmental vibration tests can often only be run once to avoid un-wanted fatigue life reduction This means that the ability to do post-test analysis of the data measured during the test is even more important and what better way of doing this than actually recording the raw signals from the test rig
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 4 Sep 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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SmartOffice dynamic signal analysers are used for multichannel analysis of vibration, acoustics and other phenomena.
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m+p international's SmartOffice dynamic signal analysers are used for multi-channel vibration and acoustic analysis, impact testing, structural, rotating machinery and acoustic analysis and more.
In the past tape recorders were used but this is inconvenient and expensive in terms of both equipment and operational manpower so are not often employed so adding test risk.
m+p international has solved these problems in their latest generation of vibration controller systems that can now collect both the original time data and processed data during the same closed loop control test run.
m+p international's vibration control systems such as the VCP_PC, VibPilot, VibRunner and VibExec now support time domain recording while running any vibration or acoustic control mode.
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VibControl Product Family with even more features
m+p international's latest VibControl shaker control system software continues to keep m+p's customers at the leading edge of environmental test simulation and vibration analysis.
Unlimited Time Data Rep/RoadLoad Simulation
The m+p international VibControl Time Replication suite of programs provides the complete solution for the transfer of vibration data from the true environment to the test laboratory.
Also known as digital through-put, this original gap-free time history data can be very valuable for both post test analysis and historical archiving in a wide variety of applications.
To ensure the highest integrity of through-put data the simple addition of a PCI plug-in card, and m+p's SmartOffice Through-Put Wizard, means that up to eight, sixteen, twenty-four, thirty-two channels and beyond can be recorded to disk.
Sample rates of up to 102.4 kHz on each channel can be used without compromising the vibration test control.
This architecture also provides pre and post-test data should a unit-under-test failure occur during the test run.
Post test Sine, Random and Shock data can be analyzed locally or if the control system is tied up, on a remote PC using, amongst others, data-reduction methods that mimic the vibration test.
If something fails you'll never miss having the exact snapshot of data - Like m+p's Vibco software the SmartOffice through-put module runs in the same Microsoft Windows NT/2000 or XP environments with an intelligent wizard providing safe, simple and efficient user guidance.
The eReporter module offers many convenient reporting features, for instance, you can copy and paste all obtained graphical results into ActiveX compliant applications such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint for richer and more comprehensive reports.
SmartOffice is scalable and supports modules for Modal and Advanced Modal Analysis, Acoustic Analysis, Rotating Machinery Analysis along with the Advanced Post Processing Wizard.
Repetitive tasks can be automated using a Visual Basic-compatible programming language.
The software package also includes a step-by-step approach to create a geometry model of the unit under test for operating deflection shape analysis.
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