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Remote & Mobile Vibration Monitoring in Industrial Environments

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Presented by:

Chris ParkerDirector of Business DevelopmentOctave Technology

Mike Edick Sr. Electrical Design EngineerManager, New Product Development GroupWilcoxon Research

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Agenda

Company introductions

Cable replacement

Product overview iT transmitter desktop software

Case study: Oak-Mitsui

Live product demonstration

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Octave Technology, Inc

Octave Technology builds software products for the practical application of emerging wireless technologies wireless sensors machine to machine (M2M) RFID remote monitoring

Areas of expertise include: software development systems integration application support handheld software development

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Wilcoxon Research, Inc

Founded in 1960 by engineers from the David Taylor Naval Research Lab

Manufacturing of industrial vibration sensors began in the 1980’s

Wilcoxon LABS established in 1999 advanced R&D projects include: Vector sensors for towed arrays and

sonobuoys, head trauma sensor and interrogator, tunnel detection and monitoring

Acquired by Meggitt PLC in 2004 35 operating companies and >8,000 employees other Meggitt companies include Endevco, Vibro-Meter, and Sensorex one of the largest sensor designers and manufacturers in the world

Over 40 years experience in the accelerometer industry and a reputation for unparalleled product performance, quality, and customer service.

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Wilcoxon Research, IncWilcoxon offers vibration sensors and network accessories for condition based maintenance and process control monitoring vital to these industries:

Pulp & paper

Power generation

Petrochemical

Food processing

Pharmaceutical

Railway

Primary metal

Maritime

Helicopter

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Cable replacement / balance of plant

Small-to-medium sized pump-motor sets have the largest number of measurement points in an industrial company; most are not currently monitored by any online-monitoring system

“Balance of plant” implies non-critical use, but costly if disabled

A simple pump-motor set has at least 6 measurement points which could be monitored for temperature or vibration

4-20mA sensors provide trend information (long time-averaged)

Dynamic sensors give diagnostic / predictive output

An iT transmitter provides trend and dynamic information from a single dynamic sensor

Wireless monitoring technology available

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Product: wireless iT instrumentation series

The iT series Ethernet multi-channel sensor acquisition modules (wired or wireless)

Buffered dynamic signal output

Processed loop-signal output

Sensor bias detection

Digital communication output

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Product: wireless iT instrumentation series

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Product: desktop software

On-demand wireless acquisition and Fourier analysis of dynamic vibration data

Support for FFT windowing: Hann & Flat-Top

First and second FFT integral

Logging to CSV and export to Excel

Overlay multiple graphs for comparison

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Case study:

Oak-Mitsui™ specializes in development and production of world class performance copper foils headquartered in Camden, SC, locations in Hoosick Falls, NY & Riverside, CA subsidiary of Mitsui Kinzoku Corporate Group, the world's largest manufacturer of

copper foils for electronics

Their need: to avoid pump motor failures

• previously manually monitored via a walk around• doesn’t provide any base line fault data• no set schedule for measurements

hard-wiring analog sensor cables is very expensive

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Oak-Mitsui solution:

L-N-G

IT113

IT051

IT001

4-20 #44-20 #34-20 #2

4-20 #1

Dyn #1(temp) Dyn #2

IT712

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PC420VP-10 Transverse to discharge

PC420VP-10 In-line to discharge

PC420VP-20 Transverse to discharge

797T-1 Accel / Temp Transverse

iT113 feeds dynamic acceleration signal of 797T-1 to iT712 for FFT (CBM) monitoring, while providing frequency-banded 4-20mA signals for continuous bearing monitoring.

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Oak-Mitsui results:

Initial field installation of two iT712 modules (along with sensors, cabling, power supplies, and enclosure) was very successful: indoor, severely acidic environment provided valuable trending data from multiple modules and sensors demonstrated graphical user interface for data logging data stored in data file for historical display and analysis demonstrated capability to do FFT analysis of dynamic sensors wireless data received in office >1000ft away from actual sensors

“Walk-around data was just an infrequent snapshot.  The continuous data allows us to compare to upsets or changes in our process in addition to understanding failures.” - John Fatcheric, COO, Oak-Mitsui

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SummaryCost-effective, real-time monitoring for “Balance of Plant” installations

Scalability allows user to simply add additional sensor monitoring points

A GUI interface gives technician a wealth of information, including trending, FFT analysis, historical data logging

Compatible sensing platform, using off-the-shelf IEPE and 4-20mA sensors for ease of installation

Compatible networking platform, using company’s existing 802.11b and 802.3 IT infrastructure

Scalable data output, transmitting low bandwidth 4-20mA information and high bandwidth dynamic information in one unit

BETA testing has proven robustness of design, operating in both acidic and extreme temperature environments

Solution ultimately saves customer significant expense from equipment downtime, by providing trending information on equipment that would have otherwise gone unmonitored or monitored only quarterly or yearly

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Live product demonstration

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Conclusion

Questions?

Thank you

Chris ParkerOctave Technology410-203-1447chrisparker@octavetech.com

Mike EdickWilcoxon Research301-216-3034m-edick@wilcoxon.com

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