Welcome to the m+p international Newsletter, the periodic technical review presented by m+p international - the test and measurement system specialists.

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@mpide.de.

In this Issue:

1. Release of SmartOffice 2.4
2. Time Domain Recording for Vibration and Acoustic Control
3. ACON Vehicle Canister Preconditioning with Useful Enhancements
4. m+p international Certified to ISO 9001:2000
5. Dates for Your Diary
6. Interesting Websites
7. Thought for the Day

1. Release of SmartOffice 2.4

SmartOffice is m+p international's solution for noise and vibration measurement, analysis and reporting. It is scalable and offers modules for FFT, modal, rotate and octave analyses. For user flexibility, the decision regarding acquisition hardware was kept open to allow interfaces with National Instruments, VXI Technology, Bustec and Teac.
Within one application, SmartOffice allows you to import data from more than 20 different standard N&V formats, do real-time data acquisition, analyse results and create reports – in the field, in the lab and in the office.

2. Time Domain Recording for Vibration and Acoustic Control

More and more customers and analysts alike are requesting both the original time data and processed data. 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. Also known as digital through-put, the original gap-free time history data can be very valuable for post-test analysis and historical archiving reasons. Now with the simple addition of a PCI plug-in card and m+p’s SmartOffice Through-Put Wizard, software module up to eight, sixteen, twenty-four, thirty-two channels and beyond can be recorded to disk at rates to 102.4 kHz sampling without compromising control. SmartOffice’s Advanced Data Reduction Wizards for Random, Sine and Shock allow overlap processing, blocksizes over 32,768, different windowing and averaging techniques for Random; overall level, harmonic analysis and COLA spline fit for high accuracy Sine analysis and in Shock up to 1/24^th Octave analysis, primary, residual, positive and negative SRS, signal pre-conditioning and automated processing with multiple damping estimates. Data can be analyzed locally or if the control system is tied up, on a remote PC.

SmartOffice supports National Instruments PCI-4472 and PXI-4472 8-channel dynamic signal acquisition devices. The input channels of these models simultaneously digitize input signals over a bandwidth from DC to 45 kHz. Other features of the NI 4472: 24-bit resolution, 120 dB dynamic range, 102.4 kS/s maximum sampling rate, 45 kHz alias-free bandwidth, ± 10 V input signal range, AC/DC coupling, ICP® conditioning - software configurable.

3. ACON Vehicle Canister Preconditioning with Useful Enhancements

Our ACON system for automated vehicle canister preconditioning is used by the automotive industry, test facilities and the manufacturers of carbon canisters. The vehicle canisters will be automatically preconditioned, i.e. purged and loaded, to prepare them for the subsequent HC emission measurements (SHED tests) according to CARB/EPA.

4. m+p international Certified to ISO 9001:2000

m+p international proudly announces that the company has been certified to ISO 9001:2000. The certification is applicable to development and sales of systems, software and tests stands for vibration control, signal analysis, process monitoring and emission testing.

5. Dates for Your Diary

m+p international will show its latest products at the following exhibitions:

6. Interesting Websites

Again, we have found some websites that may be of interest to you or a colleague - don't keep them secret, pass them around...

http://www.kettering.edu/~drussell/Demos.html For demos of vibration and acoustic effects, visit Dan Russell's webpage.

7. Thought for the Day

'After you have heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident it makes you wonder about history.'

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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