Issue 8

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@mpide.de.
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• Online graphics extended to 16 windows for up to 64 channels
• Remote PC for online display without any measurement hardware connected
• Support of up to four monitors for online display of 256 channels

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It's only a year since Agilent Technologies announced the sale of some of its VXI products to VXI Technology Inc. and it's not been an easy one for them. However, VXI Tech's recent announcement of major new products being available later in the year is all credit to them; it was something we had wanting from Agilent for many a long year.

Together with 24 bit ADC technology there are also new 8- and 16-channel cards that have front panel coax connectors, 102 kHz sampling and ICP with TEDS option. The cards are 100% compatible with the popular VT 1432A card. The 1432A can also be upgraded with a trade-in discount.

With these important developments, VXI Tech prove they have it in them to maintain the leading edge in analog performance, raw data throughput and signal analysis, for the very best in vibration control and signal acquisition (using m+p international VibControl and SmartOffice software of course!). And the best thing ... it doesn't cost a fortune!

For further details please contact sales@mpina.com or call your m+p international sales representative.

The VXIbus Consortium is a not-for-profit corporation made up of the leading companies in the Test & Measurement Industry. Its goals are develop, support, and promote the VXIbus architecture, the most popular open standard platform for data acquisition and systems in the world today. m+p international's products support the VXI hardware platform.

The VXIbus Consortium announced the release of a new revision to the VXIbus specification that incorporates the VME64 and 2eVME protocols to dramatically increase the speed and performance options for VXI based systems. The new specification, Revision 3.0, sets the stage for a new family of products that will incorporate industry-leading data transfer rates of 160 MB/s. Extensive work was done by the consortium participants to ensure backward compatibility as well as future expansion.

Read more in a press release of our partner VXI Technology, a sponsor member of the VXIbus consortium.

The E.ON Power Plant Isar 2 in Bavaria/Germany is one of the largest European power plants with a gross electric output of 1,390 megawatts. Since 1998 Isar 2 is equipped with a Coda process data acquisition system enabling the precise analysis of operating states during normal or maintenance operation. Coda offers an outstanding performance: more than 1,000 analog inputs for thermodynamic measuring values and power plant parameters, a sum data rate of 1.5 Msa/s, a circular buffer concept for gap-free data storage of more than 100 h as well as comprehensive tools for analysis and visualization.

Initially, Hewlett-Packard developed Coda which is based on a VXIbus hardware platform under the Unix operating system. m+p international inherited the responsibility for the support of Coda systems as well as the further development and product marketing from Hewlett-Packard. The newly developed SmartCoda_rtm which we will install at Isar 2 bases on the Windows operating system, but is still equipped with a real-time kernel realized under Linux. This modernization provides not only the state-of-the-art operating functions of a Windows user interface, but will also ensure high operation safety and high performance of the continuous data acquisition by the real-time operating system which is installed on a separate data server - independently of the interactive user actions.

Another special advantage for our customer:
The Unix computer hardware will be replaced by much more powerful PCs at a fraction of the inital costs. The VXIbus measuring data acquisition system, however, fully meets today's performance and reliability requirements of the power plant operator and will remain in operation. Considerable expenses for the purchase of a new measuring system as well as for the new cabeling of the over 1,000 measuring cabels are not necessary.

USA

NOISE-CON 2004
Institute of Noise Control Engineering
July 12-14, 2004, Wyndham Inner Harbor Hotel,
Baltimore, MD

Testing Expo 2004
October 27-29, 2004, Novi Expo Center, Detroit, MI
Booth # 7015

75th Shock & Vibration Symposium
October 17-22, 2004, Virginia Beach, Virginia

Germany

MeasComp
September 28-30, 2004
Wiesbaden, Booth # 51

France

SIMTEC
September 16, 2004, Cannes Mandelieu
October 16, 2004, Rennes
November 25, 2004, Grenoble

MESUREXPO
October 19-21, 2004
Palais des Expositions, Paris

We would be pleased to see you there.

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.matweb.com A good data base of material properties. There are details of all material properties here from stiffness to density on thousands of materials and because it's entered by the manufacturers it has lots of specials, too.
http://www.asme.org Website of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, focused on technical, educational and research issues.
http://www.mpihome.com The m+p international website contains many useful information on our products and solutions for

• Noise & Vibration Control
• Signal Analysis
• Temperature Chamber Control
• Emission Testing
• Process Monitoring
• Test Stand Engineering

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.
Please forward this Newsletter to your colleagues if you have found it of interest, spread the word...

With regards,
m+p international Marketing

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