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A specialised Portable Data Acquisition System (PDAS),
developed by Intercole Systems for testing the Environmental Control System (ECS) of the
Nimrod MRA4 Maritime Reconnaissance Attack aircraft, both in the laboratory and during
‘on aircraft ground testing’. The ECS is designed to maintain the temperature,
ventilation and pressurisation of the aircraft cabin and flight deck. It also supplies
conditioned air to the various avionics and mission system equipment to ensure safe
operation.
A specialised data acquisition system to be used on a
new landing gear test rig for the Airbus A340-600 aircraft.
The system software application was developed from the
National Instruments LabVIEW software product. Scanning is initiated either by manual
trigger, analogue level trigger or various pre-trigger functions. Collected data from the
two data sources is time correlated and made available graphically in a series of quick
–look displays which provide the ability to over plot new Test Data with Historical
Data for comparison before exporting for further analysis in DADisp signal analysis
software or Excel spreadsheets. Top
A Spectra high speed data capture system was supplied
to a leading UK car manufacturer to undertake crush tests on cars to ensure they meet
European and US legislative standards.
Two types of rig are used, one to test side, front and
rear penetration, the other to carry out roof crash tests. The Spectra system was chosen
because of its speed, accuracy and repeatability. The data acquired is integrated into
specialised analysis software specially configured for the application with the results
output in both graphical and text format. Top
A series of systems to undertake Industrial gas
turbine and other component testing in a major new European Test Facility.
The systems were configured from standard Spectra data
acquisition products, managed from a fully integrated software package with several
‘special to project’ enhancements. A typical enhancement was the provision of
on-line analysis of FFT data from strain gauges and other transducers, achieved by
modifying standard signal conditioning interfaces to incorporate specialised anti-aliasing
filters and shunt calibration. A dedicated workstation allows data to be collected and
saved at up to 750,000 samples per second whilst a special TCP/IP controller streams
selected data to multiple host computers via Ethernet. This data is then read using
National Instruments LabVIEW and displayed as on-line FFT data using a specially developed
simulated hardware analyser application. Top
A project for a major cosmetics company to replace and
enhance the automation of the check weighing systems on four production lines with modern
PLC based control systems, complimented by an industrial
PC based display and logging system
A major monitoring system to provide vital data as
part of a seven year research project for predicting ship structural loads and fatigue
performance. The project was initiated jointly between BP Shipping, Lloyds Register and
Samsung.
Two Nuclear Reactor Temperature Monitoring Systems
were supplied and installed at a Magnox Electric Generation Site. The systems monitor
approximately 1000 temperature and pressure signals in and around the reactors and provide
operators with important alarm and operating information.
The systems are based on a dual redundant high end
Industrial PC Architecture with multiple operator displays and networked report and alarm
printers that communicate to remotely located Spectra-node data acquisition systems. The
software application is based on the FactoryLink software system from USDATA.
The system provides a comprehensive range of user
displays and reports all of which have been rigorously developed to meet current Human
Factors standards - an area where Magnox Electric have taken a lead role as members of the
World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO).
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A series of installations in coal fired power stations
to undertake automatic boiler control and plant monitoring.
The installations are based on industrial variants of
our Spectra and Spectra-node I/O systems, many with the option of high voltage
‘withstand’ protection Depending on the size of the station over forty systems
are installed all networked together to supervisory display computers. Top
