April 2008
Concurrent, a leading provider of time-critical Linux® operating systems, integrated software and computer solutions for mission-critical applications, today announced its plans to offer SIGnal Workbench™, a high-performance, dynamic data acquisition and monitoring system for rotational machinery, structural and other vibration applications. The product will provide everything needed for high-cycle fatigue testing: a real-time computer system, data acquisition input cards, programmable signal conditioning and powerful graphical test software for data acquisition control, data management, display and post-test analysis.
“We designed the SIGnal Workbench solution specifically for automotive and aerospace engineers who need a fully-integrated, Linux-based dynamic analysis and test environment,” said Ken Jackson, Vice-President of Concurrent Special Systems. “Our goal is to reduce the time and costs associated with the vibration analysis and high-cycle fatigue testing process.”
SIGnal Workbench solutions feature SignalBoss™ software from Experimental Design & Analysis Solutions, Inc. SignalBoss is a comprehensive graphical application suite offering step-by-step instruction throughout the testing process. SignalBoss requires minimal training and allows users to quickly begin productive vibration testing and data monitoring.
All software set-up and operation is via point-and-click GUI. Test engineers can view any type of time or frequency domain plot in real-time while recording all data digitally. Data produced can include digital raw time and frequency domain with time statistics as well as compressed frequency domain data files.
SIGnal Workbench solutions include a Concurrent real-time computer platform custom-configured to test application requirements. Each system features one or more 32-channel, 24-bit, Sigma-Delta analog input boards supporting a rate of 200 kilosamples per second per channel. Other simultaneous sampling analog input cards are also available.
SIGnal Workbench also offers optional four-channel signal conditioning modules that provide programmable transducer interface circuitry. Each channel features a configurable current/voltage output source and a fault-protected programmable gain amplifier.
Concurrent SIGnal Workbench systems run Concurrent’s RedHawk Linux real-time operating system. RedHawk provides the fully-deterministic, guaranteed performance needed in high-performance, time-critical test applications. Each channel provides a programmable current/voltage output source and a fault-protected programmable gain amplifier.
Technical experts from Concurrent (Booth #F211) will be available to answer questions on SIGnal Workbench and other Concurrent solutions at Aerospace 2008, Europe’s premier testing, design and manufacturing conference, being held April 15-17, 2008 in Munich, Germany.
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