Physical testing and data acquisition forms a vital part of any product development process, as well as to determine the operational loads & efficiency of existing engineering equipment. Our Data Acquisition technology is specifically selected for the rugged and harsh South African environment and is supported by the most advanced and powerful test data analysis and management software. Testing and analyzing data has never been this well sorted out.
nCode
Balancing time to market with development costs and product liability remains a daunting challenge. Coupled with increasing competitive pressure to bring new and redesigned products to market ever faster, it’s no wonder so many companies are looking at the durability process as a critical link in the value chain and an opportunity for competitive advantage.
 To optimize the durability process, there is a critical need to integrate physical testing and analysis with more efficient and cost-effective methodologies focused on process rather than point solutions.
The framework provided by these improved procedures offers numerous opportunities for innovation. Advanced data management systems offer further opportunities by transforming engineering data into information from which business decisions can be made.
nCode Solutions: nCode has solutions for every step of the durability process. For managing loading environments, nSoft provides advanced signal processing and an easy-to-use graphical environment. FATIMAS enables fatigue prediction within nSoft based on measured strains, while FE Fatigue and nCode partner products such as MSC.Fatigue provide fatigue solutions within popular CAE environments.
In addition to these products, nCode delivers enterprise solutions to streamline and accelerate the durability process. These projects integrate workflow tools and information across the enterprise, and provide powerful and accessible environments for collaborative engineering and test. These enterprise solutions are powered by nCode`s emerging ICE-flow technology.
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OROS
Instruments for Your Applications: The OROS 3-series analyzers are flexible and comprehensive enough to tackle your measurements, whatever the application. These instruments overcome most if not all of the measurement obstacles with their broad frequency span from milliHertz to 40 kHz and the 140 dB dynamic range. Due to these attributes, OROS 3-Series analyzers are the intelligent choice for all your NVH activities.
 Vibration: Up to 40 kHz the FFT provides spectral analysis with high resolution. All the necessary tools from FFT Zoom to Synchronous time averaging are included in the analyzer allowing precise and clear results. Live graphs and markers help you focus on the searched phenomenon instantly.
“Vibration is often the key indicator for diagnosing defects on rotating machinery or characterizing structural parameters”
Rotating: Able to proficiently manage all types of Tach /keyphasor, OROS 3-series analyzes rotating machinery signals with their dynamic toolsets. Synchronous order analysis and constant band order tracking unveil hidden details during speed variation. The 3D profiles and waterfalls give clear overviews of coast-downs or runs-up.
“The analysis is automatically optimized in real time to adapt to the changing speed”
Structural: Whichever method you are using, Impact hammer or SiMo/MiMo shaker excitations, FRFs are acquired confidently. A set of sophisticated tools such as node path sequencer and previews of averaged coherence drastically speeds up modal data acquisition.
“Running through an impact hammer acquisition of modal data is made so much easier with the right tools”
Acoustics: Get comprehensive and accurate results representing noise phenomena within a portable instrument is what OROS 3-series offers to acoustics specialists. The 1/n octave band analyzer and the overall level meter (OVA) deliver data complying with international standards within class 1 requirements.
“Completing a product acoustic characterization by the calculation of some Sound Quality Metrics must be simple”
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MicroStrain
Microstrain has developed a wireless sensor system that can monitor strain and fatigue in various hardware components, such as large trucks all the way down to welding joints, accurate to millionths of a meter.
"This is like a nervous system...By predicting when welds may fail based upon actual severity of usage; users are able to streamline the maintenance requirements for each machine."
 Sensors are literally changing our world and laying a firm foundation of advanced sensing technology for the future. Combined with wireless networks and self-powering devices, gives the reigns to the next generation of smarter and safer machines, civil structures and implanted devices.
Applications: MicroStrain’s products are used in an array of industry applications. Key benefiting markets are Aerospace; Military; Automotive; Civil Engineering; Manufacturing; Biomechanics and Robotics.
In the automotive industry, MicroStrain`s Linear Displacement Transducers provide feedback for electronic valve control in the automotive engines, an advance that will allow the elimination of camshafts, and permit more precise control of valve timing. International Truck & Engine Corp has used these sensors in prototype engines and plans to replace camshafts with electronic valve control by 2007.
Core Competencies: MicroStrain’s core competencies are in the creative combination of sensors, embedded processors, and wireless communications. Our energy harvesting systems and power management software enables sensor networks that never require battery maintenance.
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Accsense
Accsense is dedicated to providing easy-to-use tools and services that streamline commercial processes and operations management. By leveraging the convenience offered by wireless and Internet technologies, Accsense Solutions are user-friendly and quick to deploy. Through the secure, hosted software service, managers, engineers and non-technical staff can have ready online access to their data. Accsense is empowering businesses with the ability to collect data, monitor conditions and watch for equipment failure around the clock, and from anywhere in the world.
 The industry’s first turnkey wireless sensor product, the Accsense solution measures a wide range of physical properties such as temperature and makes real-time measurements available online from any computer or Web-enabled device. No software installation or complex configuration is required.
The Accsense product line features wireless sensor Pods that measure ambient temperature, humidity, light, noise and vibration. Accsense sensor Pods are compatible with a range of standard external plug-in sensors and probes, including thermocouples, RTDs and thermistors.
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FEMtools
An integrated Solution for Structural Dynamics Simulation, Model Validation and Updating
Designing products today offers many challenges: they must be stronger, lighter, safer, quieter, or using new materials. Products have to satisfy a widening range of design criteria, including environmental impacts.
 To keep development time and cost competitive, companies rely on simulation tools. Finite element analysis (FEA) is a powerful technique to simulate the mechanical behavior of a product. The FEA method has matured to a point where design, meshing, analysis and post-processing are highly integrated and automated. This predictive approach relies on the quality of the model, the software to analyze it and the engineering judgment of the analyst. Experimental analysis methods are based on prototype measurements under laboratory conditions or testing real-life situations.
FEMtools is a solver - and platform-independent CAE program providing advanced analysis and scripting solutions. With its unique tools to bridge test and FEA, the best of both worlds are combined to check and improve the validity of FE simulation models. By including parameter identification, model validation and updating in design and analysis, information about the model and the required level of refinement is obtained in a more efficient and productive way than costly .trial-and-error approaches. FEMtools supports analysts and test engineers in this knowledge and decision-based process, offering a unique collection of tools that complement the general-purpose finite element analysis codes and test systems.
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