Data Acquisition Software

 

Data Manager® 2000

Data Manager® 2000 for Windows NT* (DM2000) is used in conjunction with critical machinery that is already fitted with a continuous machinery protection system. Through the addition of machinery management hardware (known as communications processors) to the existing machinery protection system hardware, DM2000 provides computerized machinery management with continuous, online data acquisition, archiving, and display capabilities. Static and dynamic data under both machine steady-state and startup/shutdown (transient) operating conditions is collected, depending on the type of communications processors connected to the software.  Data acquisition modes can be both automatically and manually initiated, based on alarm conditions, startups/shutdowns, and other events

DM2000 uses a client/server architecture that allows display (client) stations to be located where desired along your plant’s Local Area Network (LAN), Wide Area Network (WAN), or Remote Access Server (RAS) while communicating with one or more data acquisition (server) workstations.

DM2000’s basic software modules consist of the following:

Data acquisition – permits communications with all supported communications processors and acts as the permanent database for collected data

Display/Configuration – permits display of all data on any connected data acquisition station, and allows configuration of the system hardware/software

Basic DDE server – allows selected data (static only) within the data acquisition database to be exported to third-party applications that can act as DDE clients

Plots may be selected from stored transient or steady-state data, Alarm Event Data, or Baseline Data. Current Data also may be selected, in which case the computer requests a sample of the current signal(s) from the associated monitor rack and CP:

current values

bargraph

machine train diagram

trend

fast trend

high resolution trend

multivariable trend

acceptance region

timebase (with option for superposition of baseline data)

orbit/timebase

orbit (with option for superposition of baseline data)

shaft average centerline

spectrum/full spectrum (with option for superposition of baseline data)

X vs. Y

alarm list

system list

waterfall/full waterfall

Bode (with option for superposition of baseline data)

polar (with option for superposition of baseline data)

cascade/full cascade

plus orbits and plus spectrums

quickview

Trendmaster® 2000 System

Overview

Trendmaster® 2000 is an online system for cost-effective data acquisition from rotating and other machinery. A host computer, running Trendmaster® 2000 software, automatically collects data from up to 2040 permanently

mounted transducers on the machine or equipment, at intervals ranging from a few minutes to a few hours. The system uses a proprietary "sensor bus" to interconnect all transducers, and collects data from these connected points in a sequential, or other user-programmable manner. This "sensor bus" architecture (see Figure 1) is specifically designed to extend online machinery management capabilities to those machines that warrant more

than portable data collection, yet cannot justify a more expensive data acquisition approach.

Trendmaster® 2000 complements Bently Nevada’s other data acquisition methods, such as a dedicated communications processor suitable for critical equipment where millisecond, non-multiplexed sampling is required; or, manual data acquisition from general-purpose machinery using a portable data collector where an online approach cannot be justified.

Components

A Trendmaster® 2000 system consists of:

A host computer with Trendmaster® 2000 software

1 or 2 Signal Processing Adapter (SPA) cards installed in the host computer

Appropriate transducers or input signals for each measurement point

Appropriate Transducer Interface Module (TIM or flexiTIM™) for each transducer or input signal.

Appropriate cabling, Line Extenders, Line Isolators, fittings,

T-Connectors, housings, and other accessories to interconnect all TIMs and transducers to the SPA card(s)

Intrinsic safety barriers as may be required for intrinsically safe applications

 

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