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test engineers and managers involved in vibration test and hopes to bring
you some useful technical snippets gleaned from around the world and from
around the vibration test industry. We always look forward to your inputs,
please send us your views to mpi.news@mpiuk.co.uk
Shake Rattle and Roll ............
Welcome to the latest
edition of Shake, Rattle and Roll. A mixed bag this month
but, as always, every bit of it fascinating... and well
worth reading as there is a free Palm m515 on
offer this month, read on to find out
more...................
Before we get stuck in, a quick thanks to all the recent
positive comments about the newsletter, it is appreciated,
keep them coming.
New tool for all .... First off,....... a
very powerful new tool from m+p. Our latest Time
History/RoadLoad Data editor has developed into a
software application that goes beyond just RoadLoad
applications and into the realms of Random vibration
testing. In addition to importing raw time history
files of any length and providing tools for band pass
filtering, point editing, tapering, cut and paste of signals,
viewing acceleration, velocity and displacement traces, we now
provide the facility to view the FFT of a Time history
and also a PSD of either the whole
data stream or a selected section. The PSD can then be
exported to your vibration controller using a standard text
file, for testing under Random Vibration Control. This
package is now available as a stand alone software application
and does not need any hardware, so can be used by everyone.
For more details email me directly:
sales.uk@mpihome.com
Ever wondered what Acoustic Chambers are all about?
You may remember from the last
newsletter about our introduction to one of our new
products, Acoustic Control. This is the method of vibration
testing using noise as the vibration generator. Well for
more information about this fascinating technique,
Tom Irvine's latest news letter,
http://www.vibrationdata.com/Newsletters/May2002_NL.pdf
, gives an interesting overview of acoustic chamber testing
applications and practice. Tom is a well know vibration guru
and his site is well worth checking out too.
More information about TempControl......
Another item from the last Shake Rattle and
Roll was the introduction of TempControl, our complete
environmental chamber control and management software.
There is a little more about this on our website so please
visit
http://www.mpiuk.co.uk/tc.htm , if this is of interest
please do let me know as we will have literature available
about the full specification and flexibility of this
software from early July 2002
VXI - where is this highly successful standard
heading?
As you know our vibration and data acquisition high end
systems currently rely on the excellent performance of the
Agilent VXI front-ends. This instrumentation standard has
been around for while now and other emerging technologies
such as NI's PXI may appear to be taking over. The
following document by the VXI consortium puts the current
situation into perspective and suggests there's plenty of
life in the old dog yet!
In
addition to this document, if you would like to get a
further insight to this question, Agilent have a short
seminar on the topic and if you would like to arrange to
hear this either at your own site or at Agilent's HQ then
just let us know
mailto:sales.uk@mpihome.com
Agilent choose m+p to upgrade their HP3565.
This statement was taken from the latest
Agilent DAQ news letter, even more life in the old dog!
****' Agilent Lake Stevens Site Upgrades
Vibration Control System '****
Agilent manufacturing upgraded their old 3565A LMS
based Vibration Control System to a VXI based system
from m+p. The new windows based VibRunner System makes
it easy to support the full suite of Agilent's
commercial test specs. The ability to run other
internally developed matlab & VB analysis software on
the same VXI hardware made the upgrade a double bonus
for Agilent design
Engineers.
Contact your local Agilent or m+p sales office for more
information.
mailto:sales.uk@mpihome.com
To subscribe to the
Agilent DAQ news letter send an email to
agilent-data-acq@agilent.com
By the way don't
forget that our VibControl family will also drive the
HP3565 front-end if you would like a low cost upgrade
from the LMS UNIX world to a PC based system. Just think
of how much simpler reporting will be ...
FREEBIE
!!...... Now for the
Freebie news. m+p international UK are holding
a free draw to win one of the brand new Palm m515 hand
held colour computers. We are sending out entry cards by
post to all those who do not receive this email, for the
rest of you who ENJOY reading this email you can enter
by visiting our website at
www.mpiuk.co.uk/draw . The draw will be made on 31
July 2002 and the winner will be notified shortly
afterwards, that is if I haven't managed to get my hands
on the Palm first !
Dates for your diary......
The Engineering Integrity Society is
holding a 1 day seminar on Vehicle Exterior Noise
at the Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon, Warwickshire on 26
June. For more information or to book in for the seminar,
check out the "Conferences" section at
http://www.e-i-s.org.uk or telephone Catherine
Pinder on Tel: +44 (0)114 262 1155.
From the Swedish SVIB comes
news of a conference, "Structural Strength and Stable
Designs, dimensioning for function, economy and safety"
being held in Hok from 23-27 September. Contact
jardin@ftguth.se for
details.
Thought for the day......
'We are what we repeatedly
do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit' ....
Aristotle
Wrapping it
up......
Well
that brings to a close this edition of Shake Rattle and
Roll, 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.
mailto:mpi.news@mpiuk.co.uk
For
further information about any of our products listed here or
generally please contact myself, Neill Ovenden on +44 (0)
1252 718822 or Richard Lax on +44 (0) 1252 718822 or visit
our website
www.mpiuk.co.uk alternatively
mailto:sales.uk@mpihome.com
Please
forward this to your colleagues if you have found it of
interest, spread the word................
We look
forward to hearing from you all,
With
regards,
Neill
Ovenden
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