Welcome to the latest edition of
the m+p international Newsletter, Shake Rattle and Roll ...
Since
the beginning of 2002 we have been busy putting the final touches to
several new and very advanced software packages. In addition we
have also been enhancing many of our existing programmes to improve
ease of use, speed, better graphic interfaces and better utilities
for our customers. Many of these have been as a result of customer
comments, living up to our 'listens to customers....' logo.
New and Enhanced Software:
Unlimited time Road Load (simulation)
software - A technique that has eluded many for
years, an effective method of controlling the replication of
recorded track or time data in a continuous closed control loop.
All this and an unlimited time of testing.
The New
unlimited time replication software has two very important steps.
Firstly the
ultra-flexible editor:
This allows
the import of almost any raw data signal, including RPC3 and
ASCII, that can then be viewed in Acceleration, Velocity,
Displacement or Spectra graphs. Single point editing or signal
clipping, band pass filtering, signal length selection are all
valuable tools included in the editor. Selection commands allow
elimination dead spots and wasted time and append commands mean
different files can to be easily joined to produce complex test
signals. All this in a user friendly interface that shows the
original and modified signals at all times. The most important fact
of course is the ability to deal with very large sample files and
any sample frequency.
Second step is
the test phase, using highly advanced continuous update control
loops and the now well known VibControl user interface, control is
set up simply and applied with speed and finesse. A single file can
be repeated without gaps any number of times to build up required
test times. Measurement channels, data storage, test reporting,
user selectable views are all standard functions of the VibControl
software.
As with our
other systems the Simulator can be used in conjunction with the test
sequencer software for the control of highly advanced and complex
sequences requiring loops and multiple surfaces.
Transient Capture
- The new Transient Capture software includes full
trigger set up with rising or falling slope selection, level
commands, sampling rate selection, pre or post trigger delay
selection and use of multiple measurement channels.
Once
captured the signal can be displayed with all the usual benefits of
the VibControl software, however the most important and valuable
facility with this new software is the Reference Overlay
function for both Classical Shock and SRS test
specifications. For shock testing this provides the overlay of
Mil-Std, BS, IEC or user selectable limits, gone are the days of
printing transient shocks captured from scopes and overlaying limits
printed on acetate!. Now it can all be presented in professional
report with logo's test levels, cursors and any other annotation
required.
VibControl Remote Warning System
- For all those test facilities who test overnight and
depend on the tests completing on time, you no longer need an
engineer sitting by the system or making midnight trips to work. As
part of our enhancements to the sequencing software we can
now provide a system that will send you an email telling you when
the system aborts for any reason. Since these days email can be to
a PC or phone you don't even have to stay home.
Other Product News
SmartOffice -
The success of this most powerful and flexible product is
spreading. A complete solution available in modular form. Tasks
from advanced report generation with active graphs and modal
animations that can be exported to Word documents for your customers
or engineers to use with Cursors, Scalings etc., complete control of
project data handling from almost any source. This is a superb way
of bringing together the multitude of different systems that reside
in 95% of facilities.
Noise, Vibration and Modal Analysis
- SmartOffice expands to offer full analysis of Noise and
Vibration data captured by various hardware front ends from Agilent
VXI to DAT/AIT recorders of many types. Data storage can also be
handled by SmartOffice direct to the hard disk of a PC, or if
captured on tape the digital data can be analysed after the event.
This huge flexibility makes it a perfect compliment to many existing
hardware systems already in use in labs but offers increased power
of use.
Modal
analysis is another function with full geometry set up and animation
control.
All
of these tasks are supported by simple to use wizards to help the
experienced and new engineers alike.
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
One Final point, the new thought for
a day item - 'You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the
things that make you want to live to be a hundred' -
Woody Allen . How true..........
Please forward this to your colleagues if you have found it of
interest, spread the word................
