Sound and Vibration Product and Solution Partners

Online Machine Condition Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance<

ProCheck by FAG Industrial Services

FAG ProCheck is an intelligent online monitoring system that measures, records, and analyzes data independently from other systems. With its flexible configuration options, ProCheck can monitor machines and components in nearly all industries. The built-in data collection, filtering, analysis, and evaluation functions are suitable for monitoring both individual machines and entire plants.

VTS by Nexjen Systems

Nexjen Systems offers advanced vibration measurement performance at a reduced cost over traditional test equipment with the VTS series of USB computer-based measurement instruments. Designed for ease of use, standard IEPE sensors such as accelerometers and pressure sensors plug directly into BNC connectors on the front of the instrument. Power spectrum and order analysis functions perform in real time and display to the operator via an intuitive user interface.

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Machinery Diagnostics

Dynamic Data Acquisition System by Yanos Aerospace

The Dynamic Data Acquisition System is designed for use during R&D testing of rotating machinery, including gas turbine engines, to monitor all dynamic parameters such as stress/strain, vibration, and dynamic pressure. Applications include gas turbine engine test, rotating machinery test, and rotating machinery test rig control.

Machine and Torsional Vibration Monitoring Systems by Structural Integrity Associates

Machine and torsional vibration monitoring systems perform continuous monitoring and acquisition for up to 32 channels of rotor torsional vibration sensors, generator power, current, and voltage. Systems provide individual sensor warning and alarm indication and automatically record all channels of data upon alarm excursion. Data analysis includes time history, two-channel fast Fourier transform (FFT) analysis, orbit, and waterfall. Special alarm algorithms eliminate false alarms from nonrelated, electrical noise spiking.

Torsional Rotation Analyzer by ATA Engineering

The AR-101, an extremely powerful tool for acquiring and analyzing rotational test data, is particularly useful for the development of gear boxes, power trains, and belt drive systems. Torsional vibration is an angular velocity fluctuation that twists shaft sections. These fluctuations are superimposed on the steady running speed and, coupled with machinery-induced vibrations, can result in destructive effects that propagate to the whole system.

vibDaq by Cal-Bay Systems

vibDaq systems measure from one to 52 channels of vibration data in any application requiring accurate vibration measurement, such as rotating machinery, bearings, gearboxes, and engines. Display and analyze saved data with the included post-analysis function and generate high-quality reports by copying all plots as a jpeg file and inserting it into any report generator, such as Microsoft Word.

VibraQuest by SpectraQuest

VibraQuest is an innovative turnkey system for machine fault diagnostics, structural dynamics, and acoustical analysis solutions. It provides high-performance multichannel data acquisition hardware and powerful analysis tools to solve noise and vibration problems, from experimental design to solution strategy development.

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Noise, Vibration, and Harshness (NVH)

GUIDaq by Axiom EduTech

This enhanced measurement and analysis software for VibraTools helps you with GUI-based measurement setup, saving, and retrieval of channel tables with all settings; simplified frequency analysis; and automatic report generation in HTML, Microsoft Word, or Microsoft PowerPoint.

Mobile DAQ by Bloomy Controls

The Mobile DAQ System combines National Instruments SCXI signal conditioning and PXI data acquisition hardware, so you can customize the system for specific test requirements. Written in NI LabVIEW, the system software efficiently streams large amounts of data to disk and provides flexible user interface tools. Housed in a rugged instrument rack that doubles as a shipping container, the Mobile DAQ System is a versatile and portable platform for a wide variety of applications.

MajX NVH Shield and MajX-DSA by Signal.X Technologies

MajX-NVH Shield is a powerful NVH metric calculator. You can process signals in the time or angle domain, leading to spectra, orders, time- or angle-based waveforms, transient indicators, and sound quality measures. Metrics pull from these features and process through pass/fail decision logic. MajX-DSA is a full-featured dynamic signal analyzer offering spectrum analysis, frequency response function testing, rotating machinery analysis, and torsional vibration analysis.

Noise & Vibration Analyzer/Noise & Vibration Tester by WinTek Sas

These systems help you measure and monitor vibroacoustic parameters in laboratory, field test, and production line quality control.

noiseLAB by DELTA

noiseLAB is a powerful, easy-to-use software product available in four versions. noiseLAB Browser is a high-performance, single-channel digital audio recorder for up to five minutes of data and result browsing. noiseLAB Standard adds A-, C-, and linear-weighted sound-level measurements (fast and peak), including Leq and statistical values (LN on fast values), as well as editing capabilities. noiseLAB Advanced adds 1/1 and 1/3 octave analysis, up to 10,000 line FFT analysis, and impulse and tone detection analysis. noiseLAB Professional adds 1/6, 1/12, and 1/24 octave analysis; FFT analysis with up to 100,000 lines FFT; noise prediction software exSOUND2000 in 1/3 octave bands; and up to eight channels of real-time audio range recording for up to four hours (disk space dependent).

Rictor by Signalysis, Inc.

Rictor identifies vibration sources in the manufacturing facility or construction site, which helps a facility set up processes by knowledgeably working within the environment. To further enhance productivity, facilities can correlate vibration levels to the production of good or bad parts, improving profitability and reducing waste.

SO Analyzer USB4 by m+p International

A 24-bit, four-channel USB-powered dynamic acquisition module, the SO Analyzer USB4 is designed for portable noise and vibration applications. Applications include portable and stationary multichannel noise and vibration measurements, as well as online and offline analysis in the time and frequency domains in the automotive, aerospace, military, and other industrial environments.

Sound Quality Analyzer and LabVIEW Sound Quality Toolkit by ViAcoustics and Nelson Acoustical Engineering

The system and tools provide a variety of acoustical measurement and psychoacoustics metrics, including power spectrum analysis; short-time Fourier transform analysis; 1/3 octave band-level analysis; waveform envelope analysis with weighting (A,B,C) and time constant (fast, slow, custom); ISO 532 overall and specific loudness; diffuse and free field; nonstationary loudness - spectral and temporal masking; sharpness - overall and specific; roughness - Aures method, overall and specific; fluctuation strength - Aures method, overall and specific.

Trident Real-Time Analyzer and Trident Development Module for LabVIEW by ViAcoustics and Nelson Acoustical Engineering

Trident mX conducts simultaneous real-time analysis for proportional octave band (1/1, 1/3, 1/6, 1/12 or 1/24), high resolution FFT, and ISO 532B loudness analysis on up to 20 input channels. In addition, the system offers simultaneous stream to disk time waveform recording of any or all input channels and the option to save the data to calibrated audio WAV format files.

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Microphone Arrays and Noise Mapping

Akustische Kamera by CA Engineering and Service GmbH

The Akustische Kamera ("Sound Camera") is an easy, modular system for the detection and analysis of acoustic sources. This representation of noise reduces product development time by helping you visualize sources of noise to locate quality problems.

SenSound Software by SenSound, LLC

SenSound's powerful software tools help you diagnose noise sources faster and more accurately. Using new and patented acoustic holography techniques, SenSound's integrated tools help you make acoustic measurements and visualize acoustic pressure, intensity, and particle velocity in 3D.

Sound Visualization by SM Instruments

SM Instruments provides measurement and control equipment, engineering service, sensors, design, and consulting on sound and vibration applications. SM Instruments specializes in aerospace testing, sound visualization, network monitoring, and factory measurement automation supporting the aerospace, automotive, and home appliance industries.

SoundViewer by Sound View Instruments

SoundViewer is a sound source location system capable of analyzing stationary objects as well as moving (bypassing vehicles). Use SoundViewer to understand and control noise radiation from trains, trams, cars, and trucks; building acoustics; fan noise; industrial noise; and machine noise.

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Modal Analysis and Structural Test

ME'scopeVES by Vibrant Technology

ME'scopeVES can sweep through a set of time histories and animate the response of a structure, or show the structure's behavior while dwelling at a time, frequency, or machine order. ME'scopeVES is specifically designed to easily observe and analyze a variety of vibration, acoustic, and strength-of-materials problems in machines and structures.

SO Analyzer by m+p international

The Modal package (part of m+p international's SO Analyzer) provides a complete set of tools for observing, analyzing, and documenting the vibrational behavior of machines and mechanical structures with NI 4472/4474 dynamic signal acquisition devices. It includes modules for multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) acquisition as well as for ODS, SDOF, and MDOF analysis.

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Audio and Electroacoustics

HearMASTER by microLEX

Analysis and test of audio components such as hearing aids, headsets, telephones, and transducers can be difficult and cumbersome. However, with HearMASTER, audio testing and analysis becomes easy and straightforward. The task-oriented user interfaces make test programming simple and fast, giving you a high confidence level in your audio unit measurements.

SoundCheck by Listen, Inc.

SoundCheck, a flexible and powerful software-based audio test system, is an entire lab full of instrumentation including a spectrum analyzer, real-time analyzer, signal generator, multimeter, and oscilloscope. SoundCheck's test flexibility is easy to implement with its simple yet powerful programming capabilities. The intuitive point-and-click graphical user interface means that no programming knowledge is necessary to create and modify tests. You can design your own tests or customize and modify the standard sequences included with the software. You also can build complex tests from a library of saved subsequences.

QTS-12X2 by Qualis Test Systems

The QTS-12X2 connects up to 12 output channels of a device under test to the two input channels of common audio measurement equipment. You can route any one of the 12 channels to each of the two analyzer inputs.

VQAlib by Veraxys

VQAlib, the voice quality analysis library for LabVIEW, supports narrowband, HATS, and wideband analysis modes. VQAlib requires reference and degraded input signal arrays of single precision numbers and then scores speech data using the ITU P.862 Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality (PESQ) objective voice quality measurement algorithm. PESQ and Mean Opinion Score (MOS) metrics are provided as outputs.

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Microphones and Accelerometers

BSWA Technology

BSWA products include microphones and preamplifiers, sound-level meters, and impedance tubes.

Dytran Instruments

Dytran manufactures a broad range of accelerometers serving industries such as aerospace, automotive, medical, laboratory, commercial, and industrial. The accelerometer product range covers miniature to seismic as well as the full range of triaxial accelerometers.

G.R.A.S. Sound and Vibration

G.R.A.S. designs and manufactures an extensive range of products to cover virtually all front-end equipment needed for the precise and reliable measurement and recording of acoustic signals - from the transducer to the input of the measurement device. These are complemented by a range of more specialized transducers and accessories for more specific applications. See the Selection Guide for microphones and preamplifiers.

PCB Piezotronics

PCB Piezotronics manufactures accelerometers, force sensors, load cells, microphones, pressure transducers, strain sensors, torque sensors, and accessories. Use for test, measurement, monitoring, and feedback control in industrial, R&D, military, and commercial applications.

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