Data Acquisition Systems

m+p Coda is a full-featured turnkey software platform for data acquisition, signal analysis and monitoring. Complete turnkey operation provides quicker time to test by eliminating costly application programming and long learning curves. The extensive built-in features and tools offer a functionality that was previously available only in custom packages. The intuitive graphical user interface facilitates set-up, operation and analysis, thus leading to precise, repeatable results quickly.

Thanks to its modular structure and easy parameterization, m+p Coda is the perfect solution for a wide range of applications:

• Measurements and data analysis on test stands and test assemblies
• Performance, functional tests and condition monitoring of turbo-compressors, gas and steam turbines, jet engines, rocket engines, gearboxes, generators
• Experimental structural testing, multi-axis strain and stress analysis
• Process monitoring in power plants, in refineries, on production lines
• Vibration monitoring during shaker tests
• Standalone data acquisition applications

m+p Coda processes virtually every physical quantity, for example, temperatures, voltages, stresses, strains, pressures, forces, accelerations and frequencies. Even high-channel count applications using thousands of channels are configured within a very short time and handled safely and efficiently.

The client/server architecture allows several test engineers to have concurrent online access to the acquired data for display and analysis operations. The online server approach also ensures reliable data archival and retrieval with integrated error diagnostics to guard against connection and data access issues.

The modular architecture makes this package ideal for any test requirement, from tens to thousands of channels.

Configuration data are stored in a central SQL database for maximum flexibility and repeatability. m+p Coda stores and processes the acquired data in its uniform data model. Even different sampling rates for data groups or data acquired asynchronously are permitted. As a rule, the measured raw data are always stored to ensure access to the original data at any time.

Using a simple mouse-click, m+p Coda is able to identify the connected measurement hardware including across different manufacturers. The hardware will be listed together with some additional information in a table. The user selects the required instruments, whose samples rates can be different, for the subsequent parallel measurements. A channel configuration wizard, with user­-definable default values, is also available. Additionally virtual instruments can be selected for simulation purposes. The m+p Coda functionality is the same for real and virtual instruments.

m+p Coda supports a range of USB, Ethernet and LXIbus-­based instruments from established manufacturers. These instruments are known for their high performance, measurement accuracy and reliability. Users can select their preferred acquisition hardware for any test size. Other or existing acquisition devices can be integrated and communication with subordinate process computers for data transfer is also provided.