If you’ve worked in industries like data centers, healthcare, manufacturing, or oil & gas, you know how critical backup power is. A power outage can lead to major disruptions, lost revenue, and in some cases, serious safety risks. That’s why the…
ITM’s study of Amazon’s Monitron Sensors reveals cost-effective options for industrial monitoring. On the heels of revolutionizing online shopping, Amazon may now be rewriting the rules of predictive maintenance for industrial equipment. The engineers at Integrated Test & Measurement have begun testing Amazon’s new AWS Monitron Sensors. Our…
Cooling towers are an integral part of geothermal power plants, as they help to cool the water used in the power generation process by circulating air using large fan blades. However, the fan blades of cooling towers are subjected to high levels of stress and vibration, which can…
building a rugged and flexible in-vehicle testing solution to measure the vibration levels.
When measuring noise and vibration levels, our engineers use the NI-9231 sound and vibration module, a CompactDAQ chassis and a Laptop running iTestSystem for data logging and analysis. The NI-9231 module is an updated, higher channel count version of the NI-9234 module. The NI-9231 is an 8 channel,…
Check out this video showing one of our custom rugged data acquisition systems!
A case study describing a reliable system for testing generator vibration levels after production in order to verify proper unit design and assembly.
Our test engineers are often called upon to deploy unattended or “black box” data acquisition systems in the field. These systems are deployed on machinery, vehicles, and industrial processes to constantly record strain and vibration data at sample rates between 100 and 100,000 Hz. That adds up to…
Choosing an accelerometer for rotating machinery vibration measurements can be a daunting task since there are so many options available. This blog outlines the characteristics you should consider when choosing a piezoelectric single axis accelerometer for general purpose vibration measurements and presents some accelerometers to consider. Characteristics of…
Our test engineers collect vibration data on rotating machinery using four basic tools. We use a Laptop computer with iTestSystem software to stream accelerometer and rotational/speed pulse sensor data from a National Instruments cDAQ equipped with vibration and voltage input modules. The video above shows how to collect…
Last week our team successfully and safely installed another Boiler Monitoring System (BMS). This system, a Sootblower Fouling Detection (SFD) system, monitors structural and vibration sensors that quantify the boiler’s response to sootblower operations. The SFD system analyzes the boiler response data and outputs Key Performance Indicators…
The FieldDAQ™ FD-11634 sound and vibration input module from National Instruments (NI) can now be used with the latest version of iTestSystem for your data collection needs. The FD-11634 is similar to the NI-9234, NI-9232, NI-9231, and NI-9230 cDAQ dynamic input modules and can be used with IEPE…
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