LabVIEW Analysis for Monitoring Applications
Analysis for System MonitoringOffline analysis applications identify cause and effect of variables affecting a process by correlating multiple data sets. These applications generally require importing data from custom binary or ASCII files and commercial databases such as the LabVIEW Datalogging and Supervisory Control (DSC) Module historical database, Oracle, Access, and other SQL/ODBC-enabled databases. Once the data is imported into LabVIEW, users perform several of hundreds of available analysis routines, manipulate the data, and arrange it in a specific format for reporting purposes. LabVIEW provides functions to access any type of file format and databases, SQL functionality for engineers to communicate with existing business databases through the Database Connectivity Toolkit, and support for the latest data-sharing technologies such as XML, web-enabled data presentation, and ActiveX. More Information About System Monitoring with LabVIEW
Machine Condition MonitoringToday, the National Instruments machine control and machine vibration offerings include 24-bit delta sigma analog to digital converters, high-speed streaming to disk, client server, synchronization of measurements, and an extensive vibration analysis software library ranging from level measurements, to Averaging and Zoom FFT, to order analysis with sharp adjustable tracking filters. National Instruments customers have taken advantage of open architecture technologies to create a wide range of vibration monitoring systems. For example, systems measure machine signatures from turbines, generators, pumps, rolling mills, and other industrial machinery. Sensors used include accelerometers, velocimeters, proximity probes, current probes, voltage probes, and any required process variables. Analysis of vibration, electrical, and process signatures includes Statistical, Averaged and Zoom FFT, Harmonics, Octave, Order Tracking and Extraction, Trending, and Integration. Standard frequency analysis displays are included. Source code is also available for easy customization of analysis functions or displays. More Information on Machine Condition Monitoring |
When monitoring a system it is important to understand where and how a system can fail. The analysis capabilities of LabVIEW can help you extract the information you need to keep your system running smoothly.