DuPont: Improved Fire Safety with the Help of m+p Coda

We are proud to support our customer, DuPont, in the testing of Nomex^®, a flame-resistant fiber used in protective clothing for firefighters, police officers, industrial workers and many others. m+p international supplies acquisition hardware and server systems with customized software based on m+p Coda for all of DuPont’s Thermo-Man^® testing facilities, which are located in the United States (2), Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, Brazil and Singapore.

Thermo-Man^® is a life-size mannequin, equipped with 122 heat sensors and used to simulate exposure to a sudden fire. To analyze the protective performance of Nomex^®, Thermo-Man^® is dressed in test garments and then engulfed into flames.

Dr. Roger Parry, principal investigator with DuPont, comments: “Your folks have done a great job converting our software requirements specification into an efficient GUI that addresses our specific needs. We look forward to continue working with m+p as we further refine the Thermo-Man^® software package.”

m+p Coda is our versatile solution for a wide range of acquisition, analysis and monitoring applications. It is scalable from 2 to more than 2,000 channels and supports Ethernet, USB and LXI-bus-based instrumentation. Features include powerful data management, real-time alarm monitoring and event handling, online data access from any networked PC, optional standalone operation, etc.

Thanks to its modular structure and easy parameterization, m+p Coda has extensive application coverage:

• Measurements and data analysis on test stands and test assemblies
• Temperature measurements supporting all standard thermocouple types and RTDs
• Performance and functional testing as well as condition monitoring of turbocompressors, turbines, jet and rocket engines, gearboxes and generators
• Experimental structural testing, multi-axis strain and stress analysis
• Process monitoring
• Vibration monitoring during shaker tests

See Thermo-Man^® in action in this short video.