Issue 4/2005

Welcome to our latest Newsletter about the Vibration & Environmental test world in addition to the latest information from m+p international.
The m+p international Newsletter is circulated exclusively to test engineers and managers involved in vibration test, data acquisition and signal analysis and hopes to bring you some useful technical snippets gleaned from around the world and from around the test and measurement industry. We always look forward to your inputs, send us your views to newsletter@mpihome.com.

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MTS Corporation recently announced the closing of their Noise and Vibration Division. Effective immediately, MTS will no longer sell and support I-DEAS Pro and related software products. Many I-DEAS customers are now concerned about the future of their hardware and software. The fact that they invested in an open hardware solution will save them from having to make a quick, unplanned and painful change. VXI-based data acquisition hardware remains in production with new modules being introduced. Service, support and calibration remains readily available.

An open hardware platform supported by a consortium of vendors has been the choice of m+p international since 1996. m+p international provides both off-the shelf noise, vibration and control software, and custom test systems utilizing VXI hardware from multiple vendors.

• The m+p VibControl Vibration Control and Data Acquisition software for 2 to 256+ input channels is used by many of the leading environmental test laboratories worldwide. It supports all test standards, guarantees reliable true multi-tasking real-time control and offers features such as multi-monitor support, test sequencing and automatic reports to MS Office applications.
  
• The m+p SmartOffice is a new Noise & Vibration Analysis software approach that can be used in a matter of minutes to acquire, analyse and report the most complex of data requirements. For noise and vibration acquisition and analysis, modal analysis, impact testing, rotating machinery and pass-by-noise measurements.

MTS I-DEAS customers now benefit from m+p international’s open software/hardware concept. They can upgrade their system to our reliable, state-of-the-art software solutions, while keeping their existing VXI data acquisition hardware in operation. Why spending more money than necessary?

If you want to learn more about our investment protection possibilities, please contact Al Prosuk at
al.prosuk@mpihome.com or 973 239 3005.

Our product reputation and broad experience coupled with valuable user feedback and extensive support and service capabilities have led to significant market share in numerous key industries worldwide. m+p international has its headquarters in Hannover, Germany with subsidiaries in New Jersey, England, France and Singapore along with representatives and agents in many countries.

SmartOffice is m+p international’s versatile platform for noise and vibration measurement, analysis and reporting. With the ToughAcq and FlexAcq, we now offer two fully integrated rugged portable analysers using our powerful SmartOffice analysis suite of software for everything from basic FFT analysis to full modal and rotating machinery analysis.

The ToughAcq with between 4 and 16 channels is metal cased, with laptop style screen and keyboard. Vibration and shock tested to MIL-STD 810F, with drop protection from a 1 m drop to concrete. IP54 splash rating means it can even operate safely in the rain.

The FlexAcq can provide up to 48 channels fully integrated in its rugged chassis, weighing from just 8 kg fully inclusive of screen and keyboard.

These systems are perfect for all portable applications whether they require harsh environment use or just plenty of transport from one site to another.

For further details please contact sales.na@mpihome.com.

With the VibUtil add-on module, the m+p VibControl vibration control and analysis system offers a versatile tool for automating vibration tests. VibUtil easily combines individual vibration tests of identical or different test modes in any complexity of nested loops. It allows unattended testing with full test control anywhere via email and mobile phone (SMS text message).

VibUtil can be flexibly extended to include eight digital input channels and eight digital output channels which provide links to external equipment such as environmental chambers for combined envionmental testing.

Read more in the new VibUtil datasheet.

The following Technical Notes of VXI Technology, our partner for high-quality VXIbus-based data acquisition systems, may be of interest to you or a colleague - don't keep them secret, pass them around...

• What is data acquisition? (921 KB, 20 pages)
• Fundamentals of dynamic signal analysis (560 KB, 16 pages)
• Signal analysis reference (458 KB, 15 pages)

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."
– Mark Twain

Well, that brings to a close this edition of the m+p international Newsletter. If there are items of info you would like to see here or if you have useful tips for the rest of the environmental test world, then please send us your pointers and we'll include them in the next edition.

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m+p international Marketing

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