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Bruno Independent Liiving Aids Improves Work Processes With FFD'S LockStep & Sequence Software
From: Sequence SoftwareDescription: Bruno Independent Living Aids is a leading global manufacturer of personal mobility device transportation equipment. Since 1984, the company has become the industry standard for unwavering quality ...
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Case Study: Industrial Cyber Security Designs a Network Architecture for Noranda Income Fund
Description: Noranda Income Fund (NIF), a privately held zinc refinery, wanted advice about how to achieve a secure process network as well as the equipment that would be required to build this new network. ...
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Why is the microphone pressure reference 2*10**(-5) Pascals?
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: This seemingly simple question is actually quite fundamental. To answer the question we need to consider sound intensity. Now sound intensity is defined as "the average rate of flow of energy through ...
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White Paper- Successfully Executing a System Integration Project
From: Beamex Oy AbDescription: For process manufacturers today, having a reliable, seamlessly integrated set of IT systems across the plant, or across multiple sites, is critical to business efficiency, profitability and growth. ...
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Negative Frequencies - What Are They?
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: Normally when we are analysing a signal it is a purely real signal, that is it has no imaginary part. A classic example is of course a sine wave. When we analyse a signal with a Fourier transform, ...
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Why Price Shouldn't Be the Final Factor When Investing in Manufacturing ERP Software
From: IQMSDescription: In today's world of business, the word free doesn't really mean free. It's a tempting word - free - but it raises hairs on the backs of people's necks. Nothing is ever free. You know the company with ...
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High speed troubleshooting for process monitoring
From: NorPix, Inc.Description: Industrial equipment represents one of the largest, and most important investments most production companies will ever make. Not only is the equipment itself a sensitive and complicated infrastructure ...
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Real-time Video Merge and Streaming
From: NorPix, Inc.Description: The nature of certain industrial operations does not lend itself well to wide-scale demonstrative training efforts, whether due to security constraints, the physical realities of the facility itself ...
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PIC32 Bootloader
Description: The bootloader for PIC32 devices is used to upgrade firmware on a target device without the need for aprogrammer or debugger. The bootloader consists of the following applications: *The bootloader ...
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A Collaborative Approach to Solving Engineering Problems with CFD
From: ANSYS, Inc.Description: Ongoing advances in software and hardware, combined with the rapid growth of highperformance computing, have created exciting opportunities to take engineering simulation to new levels of scale, speed ...
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Advances in Core CFD Technology
From: ANSYS, Inc.Description: Product developers may see it as a perfect storm of challenges: increased product complexity, tighter quality requirements, and higher yield and productivity indexes. Even with such constraints, ...
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Cutting Design Costs
From: ANSYS, Inc.Description: With engineering managers increasingly sensitive to the cost of product design, it is no longer enough to justify engineering software based on gut feelings about its value. Managers want to see cold, ...
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What is Synchronous (Angular) Sampling?
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: The term synchronous data is usually applied to vibration or acoustic data that is captured from an item of rotating equipment at regularly spaced angle intervals as distinct from regularly spaced ...
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A Validated Methodology for Designing Safe Industrial Systems on a Chip
Description: Industrial automation, transportation, smart grid, and many other industries require machinery and products to be safe and certified for functional safety. Flexibility and the incremental cost for ...
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Vibration Analysis - Should We Measure Acceleration, Velocity or Displacement?
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: When using vibration data, especially in conjunction with modelling systems, the measured data is often needed as an acceleration, as a velocity and as a displacement. Sometimes different analysis ...
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Understanding Windowing And Overlapping Analysis
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: This article was inspired by a question asked by a reader regarding a previous article - Data Windows : What, why and when?. Specifically, the reader asked "Could you please put an example about ...
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Diamond - CASE STUDY
From: SigmaNESTDescription: Dennis Nadolsky has a lot on his shoulders. For several months the software guru has been, in essence, bringing into the 3-D CAD world some of the ideas that changed Diamond Heavy Haul from a ...
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How To Measure Noise & Vibration In Rotating Machines
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: In this article we will look at the basic steps behind a simple rotating machinery study. We won't look in great detail at some of the techniques involved - these are dealt with elsewhere on the Noise ...
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Which Should I Use? Real & imaginary? Or magnitude & phase?
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: In general, noise or vibration signals are composed of one or more sinusoidal signals which can be quantified in terms of their magnitude (modulus) and phase components. These can be visualised as the ...
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Automotive Industry Case Study: Final Assembly Error Proofing (.pdf)
Description: A major automotive company must ensure all exterior components and their markings are accurately installed on finished vehicles. The company switches from a human based inspection system to machine ...
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Financial Industry Case Study: Currency Inspection and Validation (.pdf)
Description: The Chinese Federal Banking System uses a system of 1 printing location, 14 distribution centers, 30 treasuries, 365 central banks, 3,600 commercial banks and 2,000 local banks. At each transfer ...
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Mobility in the Manufacturing Workplace (.pdf)
From: IQMSDescription: As any 15-year-old teenage girl can illustrate as she texts her BFF and updates her Facebook page before your desktop computer can even finish booting up, handheld mobile devices have arrived. We are ...
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Development in Machine Vision Software (.pdf)
From: Tordivel ASDescription: The team at Scorpion Vision Software has been working with the transition from 2D machine vision to 3D machine vision since 2006. Our goal is to make this transition transparent for the user. Scorpion ...
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How Can Social Networks Help Engineers
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: Each of the different social networks has its own strengths and weaknesses in terms of how useful it will be in a work or educational environment. We will look at just a few of the different sites. ...
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Converting Acceleration, Velocity & Displacement
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: From time to time I meet engineers who are interested in the conversions between acceleration, velocity and displacement. Often, they have measured acceleration, but are interested in displacement or ...
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Methods of Conversion Between Acceleration, Velocity and Displacement
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: From time to time I meet engineers who are interested in the conversions between acceleration, velocity and displacement. Often, they have measured acceleration, but are interested in displacement or ...
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Do You Need To Measure Brake Noise?
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: DATS smoothing PROTOR runup vibration microphone Fourier aliasing P8000 strain gauge de-spike ENBW despike muffler gearbox strain gage engineering acoustic phaseless spikes Butterworth fatigue ...
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Using Your Vibration Condition Monitoring System To Monitor Auxiliary Equipment
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: The use of a vibration condition monitoring system for monitoring vibration from large rotating machines fitted with fluid-filled journal bearings such as steam or gas turbines is well understood. ...
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Development to Deployment Code Instrumentation Architecture (.pdf)
From: Convergence InstrumentsDescription: Many modern instruments feature Personal Computer connectivity. A PC connection allows features that a stand-alone instrument cannot provide, such as data upload/download, improved user-interface for ...
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10 Reasons to Select Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology (.pdf)
Description: Most of us know the benefits of a 3D CAD strategy - reduced rework, shortened time-to-market, improved product features and more. But smart companies succeed because they make smart decisions. They ...
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FEA for All Engineers (.pdf)
Description: SMB manufacturers (small- to medium-sized businesses with revenues between $7 and $700M) are seizing the opportunity to improve their product design and development processes through investments in ...
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Developing an Algorithm for Tick Detection
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: An investigation was made of a sample of automotive components where some were exhibiting a high frequency "tick" or rattle during each operating cycle. This feature could be heard above the normal ...
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CPDA: Solid Edge Broadens Use of Synchronous Technology (.pdf)
Description: The new software release Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology 2 from Siemens PLM Software continues to deliver aftershocks to the PLM industry by introducing new uses of synchronous technology, the ...
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Design Product News: Hatch Succeeds with Solid Edge (.pdf)
Description: Between a rock and a hard place pretty much sums up the position of the Coilbox in a steel hot strip mill. Located between the roughing mill and finishing mill stages, Coilbox technology from Hatch ...
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Goal Seeking in Solid Edge (.pdf)
Description: Engineers are constantly faced with solving problems - it's what they're paid to do.The faster a formidable solution or the harder the problem, the more successful that person will become. Depending ...
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Microwave Office Enables First Pass Design Success for World's Only Pocket-Sized Sports Radar Gun
From: AWR CorporationDescription: The Pocket Radar team set out to completely redesign the size and shape of traditional radar guns, opening a new market for a small, low-cost, accurate and convenient product. This required operation ...
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Solid Edge Diagramming (.pdf)
Description: Many companies are now switching to 3D design systems to cut costs, improve quality and remain competitive.The popular Siemens PLM Software Evolve to 3D program provides four easy steps that help many ...
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Solid Edge Large Assemblies (.pdf)
Description: With product complexity increasing, more and more companies realize that their current design technology is no longer able to cope. As product lifecycles decrease, engineering departments are ...
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Solid Edge Motion Simulation, Explode - Render - Animate (pdf)
Description: Many companies already recognize the benefits of using 3D for design work. Solid Edge goes beyond building assemblies and allows companies to extend their CAD data to be used by design review teams, ...
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Solid Edge OEM Supply Chain Collaboration (.pdf)
Description: Globally distributed partner networks are no longer the sole domain of large OEMs. It is now common for small and mid-size companies to participate in or even drive multiple, highly competitive supply ...
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Solid Edge Plant Equipment Design and Layout (.pdf)
Description: For some time now, the advanced assembly design capabilities of Solid Edge® software have been used by many companies such as VAI, Anglo Platinum and Krones to layout their factory floors and ...
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Solid Edge Sheet Metal White Paper (.pdf)
Description: If your company designs sheet metal parts, it faces a series of unique challenges. Although parts are typically designed in their "formed" state, they begin as a flat plate. As a result, ...
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Solid Edge Structural Frames and Weldments (.pdf)
Description: Solid Edge Structural Frames is a process-specific workflow that helps users develop rigid frame structures. An intuitive interface guides a user through the process of creating a 3D sketch of the ...
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Technicom: Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology (.pdf)
Description: In April, 2008 I had the unique privilege of visiting Solid Edge headquarters in Huntsville, Alabama to view one of the first external presentations of the new version of Solid Edge using synchronous ...
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Top 10 Reasons to Buy Femap with NX Nastran White Paper (.pdf)
Description: This white paper presents just a sample of the many technical and commercial reasons for investing in Femap with NX Nastran that clearly show why Femap with NX Nastran is the leader for CAE products ...
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Adding Functionality Without Increasing Lead Times
Description: Verhoeven Oss BV Engineering Works designs and manufactures internal transport systems for an international market. Its customers operate in a range of industrial sectors, including food processing, ...
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Case Study: Schätti AG - Two (Integrated) Sites are Better than One
Description: Schätti AG metalwork was founded 1934. It is a familyowned Swiss company where the third generation is now in charge: brothers Jos Schätti, Thomas Schätti and Stefan Schätti. The company, which has ...
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Customers Benefit from Supplier's PLM
Description: Industrial Control Associates, Inc. (ICA) is a systems integrator and machine builder specializing in programmable logic control (PLC) system machines. The company provides custom fabricated machinery ...
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Digital Process Speeds the Creation of Quality Consumer Products
Description: In the market for more than 40 years, competing against multinational enterprises, Esmaltec stands out today as the only consumer products company with 100 percent Brazilian capitalization. Esmaltec ...
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Enhancing Productivity and Product Quality with 3D
Description: Everdigm produces a wide range of construction machinery as well as equipment for fighting fires and responding to other natural disasters. The company began in 1994 trading second-hand construction ...
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Market Dominance is in their DNA
Description: Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) is the largest supplier of custom nucleic acids in the United States, serving academic, government and commercial researchers in biotechnology, clinical diagnostics ...
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Speeding New Product Development When the Clock is Ticking
Description: Wristwatches from IWC Schaffhausen do more than tell the time. These handcrafted and technically sophisticated luxury timepieces are a man's best jewelry piece and can become sought-after collector's ...
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The Right Formula for Successfully Expanding
Description: Company realizes 20 percent faster design turnaround, 15 percent gain in employee productivity and 25 percent improvement in product reliability and quality KC Samyang Water Systems specializes in ...
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Turning Up the Product Development Heat
Description: Burner Systems International (BSI) is a leading global supplier of components, assemblies and system solutions for the gas appliance industry.With six facilities operating in five countries, the ...
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Case Study - East Richland County (.pdf)
From: M2M Data CorporationDescription: Jack Morin operates 16 lift stations for East Richland County in South Carolina. That means he has a great deal of data from his pumps to collect and act upon, regulations to meet, man-hours to ...
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Hardware Integration with NI LabVIEW
From: NIDescription: For more than 20 years, engineers and scientists have used NI LabVIEW to interface with measurement and control devices. LabVIEW integrates seamlessly with thousands of different hardware devices, and ...
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NI LabVIEW Supports Multiple Targets and Operating Systems
From: NIDescription: NI LabVIEW can run on most common OSs and deploy code to an array of hardware targets. This flexibility means you can choose the most appropriate computing platform, protecting your investment in the ...
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The Benefits of Programming Graphically in NI LabVIEW
From: NIDescription: For more than 20 years, NI LabVIEW has been used by millions of engineers and scientists to develop sophisticated test, measurement, and control applications. While LabVIEW provides a variety of ...
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Industrial Network Management: Finding the Perfect Solution (.pdf)
From: Moxa Inc.Description: If you manage or operate an industrial automation network, then network management is something that you are already doing. All of the activities that are involved in configuring, maintaining, ...
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Aliasing, Orders and Wagon Wheels
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: These days most people collecting engineering and scientific data digitally have heard of and know of the implications of the sample rate and the highest observable frequency in order to avoid ...
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CAN Primer (.pdf)
From: ARM Inc.Description: CAN is extensively used in automobiles and trucks but has found applications everywhere. There are many application layers available for CAN, however, it is very easy to develop your own protocol that ...
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Keil uVision and Actel SmartFusion (.pdf)
From: ARM Inc.Description: This application note describes how to use the Keil Development Tools with the Cortex-M3 processor-based SmartFusion family of devices. It also demonstrates the use of Serial Wire Viewer (SWV) debug ...
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MDK-ARM Compiler Optimizations (.pdf)
From: ARM Inc.Description: This application note examines the ARM Compilation Tools, as used inside the Keil MDK-ARM, and explains how to use them to optimize your code for best performance or smallest code-size. ...
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NXP lab: Cortex-M3 Training with Serial Wire Viewer (.pdf)
From: ARM Inc.Description: This lab will introduce you to the features of Serial Wire Viewer (SWV) in the Keil MDK-ARM Microcontroller Development Kit featuring µVision® and the MCB1700 evaluation board based on the NXP ...
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Getting Rid Of Spikes
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: For various reasons data captured in the real world often contains spikes that will give erroneous results when analyzed. DATS for Windows provides various ways of editing and removing these ...
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Interpretation of the Articulation Index
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: The Articulation Index or AI gives a measure of the intelligibility of hearing speech in a given noise environment. The metric was originally developed in 1949 in order to give a single value that ...
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Removing Phase Delay Using Phaseless Filtering
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: In many instances we need to filter a signal to remove unwanted frequencies. If we use classical filters such as Butterworth, Chebyshev or even Bessel then a phase delay is introduced. This phase ...
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Time Varying Overall Level
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: A common requirement in noise and vibration analysis is to find the overall level of a signal as a function of time. Now the overall level is a measure of the total dynamic energy in the signal. That ...
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Examples Of Event Extraction And Removal
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: In many cases only significant events, such as bumps or other transients in a signal are of relevance. The objective is to be able to isolate these events in a meaningful manner so that they may be ...
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Measuring For Success
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: The following application note shows the steps taken to perform a structural analysis on an automotive exhaust pipe (muffler) structure with the aim of improving the structural damping properties of ...
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Measuring Torsional Crank Shaft Jitter
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: Using Prosig's P8000 series data acquisition system with DATS signal analysis software, torsional analysis (crank jitter) was performed on an automotive engine attached to an engine dynamometer. The ...
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Order Cuts And Overall Level
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: Order cuts are taken from a set of FFTs, each one at a different rpm. The rms level is then found as the Square root of the Sum of the squares of each of the FFT values. ...
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Orders v Time - Comparing Overall Levels
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: By combining a speed signal with a data signal and using the Short Time FFT algorithm (Hopping FFT), it is possible to extract order data directly as a function of time (Orders from Hopping FFT) ...
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Vibration Condition Monitoring Using Your Android Phone
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: Ever been lying on the beach and begun to wonder about the state of your LP turbines. Or out on business and anxious to know if that troublesome exciter bearing has settled down? Well with a Prosig ...
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What Is Resonance?
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: In technical terms, resonance is the tendency of a structure or material to oscillate at maximum amplitude at a certain frequency. This frequency is known as the structure's resonant frequency. ...
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Track, Trace, Control: High Production Output at Low Costs (.pdf)
Description: To survive and prosper in today's economy, leading manufacturers must assemble high quality products at the lowest possible cost. The total cost of production must take into account the complete ...
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Human Exposure To Vibration In Buildings (DIN 4150-2:1999-06 & DIN 45669-1:1995-06)
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: Standards DIN 4150-2:1999-06 and DIN 45669-1:1995-06 provide a means of assessing the effect on human beings of vibration caused by vehicle traffic, trains both above and below ground, construction ...
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A Simple Frequency Response Function
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: This article will attempt to explain the basic theory of the frequency response function. This basic theory will then be used to calculate the frequency response function between two points on a ...
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Amplitude And Energy Correction - A Brief Summary
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: In this article we will look at why we need to consider energy correction when producing frequency spectra and how we go about it. We will use a perfect, 'special case' signal to keep the explanation ...
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Vibration Monitoring Phase Measurement And The Tacho Signal
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: Any vibration signal may be analyzed into amplitude and phase as a function of frequency. The phase represents fifty percent of the information so it is most important to measure phase for vibration ...
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Calculating Velocity Or Displacement From Acceleration Time Histories
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: It is quite straightforward to apply "classical" integration techniques to calculate either a velocity time history from an acceleration time history or the corresponding displacement time history ...
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Fatigue & Durability Testing (.pdf)
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: This application note describes the test and measurement process for the fatigue testing and development cycle of a component. ...
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Interpolation Versus Resampling To Increase The Sample Rate
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: These are two different techniques aimed at different objectives. ...
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Shaft Displacement Measurement Using A PROTOR System
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: Shaft displacement is an important vibration measurement for rotating machines. Shaft displacement is usually monitored by non-contact shaft displacement probes such as eddy-current probes. These ...
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Sound Steering
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: The requirement was to develop a 'standard' test for assessing the sound quality of power steering pumps in vehicles. Measurements needed to be objective so that the method would be suitable for ...
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Measurement And Analysis Of Torsional Vibration
From: Prosig USA, Inc.Description: Torsional vibration is of key importance in the area of vehicle development and refinement. The main contributory source is the engine where periodically occurring combustion cycles cause variation in ...
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Tips for Successful Practice of Simulation (.pdf)
From: Simio LLCDescription: Succeeding with a technology as powerful as simulation involves much more than the technical aspects you may have been trained in. The parts of a simulation study that are outside the realm of ...
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How to Conquer the Competition with Quality (.pdf)
From: Sciemetric InstrumentsDescription: To win in the competitive arena, manufacturers need to deliver and develop a reputation for quality. By applying manufacturing intelligence throughout the plant, manufacturers can reduce the cost of ...
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Bosch Data Concentrator for Complete Traceability of Tightening Operations (.pdf)
From: Sciemetric InstrumentsDescription: Tightening operations are often critical to the quality of a product. Without insight into the tightening process the customer cannot control the quality of the tightening operation and ensure shipped ...
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Computerized Work Management Systems for Utility and Plant Operations
Description: Computerized Work Management Systems for Utility and Plant Operations This book shows how new computerized technologies can be used to create more cost-effective work management--and improved asset ...
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Caring for the Customer, Fourth Edition
Description: Caring for the Customer, Fourth Edition Well-structured and easy to follow, this workbook will enable managers to explain the meaning and significance of customer care, identify internal and external ...
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Computational Science
Description: Computational Science Illustrating practical examples from computational science, this applications-oriented book teaches students and engineers how to employ mathematical techniques for simulation ...
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Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computation: Elementary Algorithms
Description: Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computation: Elementary Algorithms Useful for students of mathematics, computer science, and other technical fields, this book provides a systematic approach for the ...
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Computer Graphics for Architects, Engineers and Environmental Designers
Description: Computer Graphics for Architects, Engineers and Environmental Designers This valuable sourcebook teaches the concepts and specific details required for using digital technology without being tied to ...
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Achieving Objectives Through Time Management, Fifth Edition
Description: Achieving Objectives Through Time Management, Fifth Edition Investigating some typical activity traps, this book examines the process of making decisions, the importance of getting the timing right ...
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Change-Based Test Management: Improving the Software Validation Process
Description: Change-Based Test Management: Improving the Software Validation Process Specifically written for software engineers and testing specialists, this guide includes an overview of current development ...
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BIM and Construction Management: Proven Tools, Methods, and Workflows
Description: BIM and Construction Management: Proven Tools, Methods, and Workflows Crammed with practical tips, smart tactics, and field-tested techniques, this practical book offers proven tools, methods, ...
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Agent-Based Manufacturing and Control Systems: New Agile Manufacturing Solutions for Achieving Peak Performance
Description: Agent-Based Manufacturing and Control Systems: New Agile Manufacturing Solutions for Achieving Peak Performance Practical, applicative, and state-of-the-art, this text provides all the tools ...
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Applied Reliability-Centered Maintenance
Description: Applied Reliability-Centered Maintenance Discussing what reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) is, this book explains how RCM makes sense for electric utilities who have been forced to control ...
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AutoCAD 2002 ReferencePoint Suite
Description: AutoCAD 2002 ReferencePoint Suite Use this ReferencePoint Suite for creating drawings, imaging and modeling, storing data with graphics, plotting, using dimensions and customizing AutoCAD 2002. ...