Please join us for a new MEscope ODS Webinar

"Using a Cell Phone Video and ODS Correlation

to Diagnose Unbalance in Rotating Machinery"

Thursday, October 19th, 2023.

Nearly everyone carries a cell phone in their pocket, including field technicians, engineers, and plant managers. Extracting vibration signals from a cell phone video offers a low-cost alternative to traditional methods for monitoring the health of plant operating equipment.

In this webinar, we will show you how to use our touch screen version of MEscope in the field, to create an animated ODS of a machine minutes after recording a video of it with your cell phone. Order-based ODS's are used by a unique database search method, called FaCTs™, that correlates a currently acquired ODS with ODS’s of known machine unbalance conditions stored in a database. FaCTs™ becomes more accurate as more ODS data is acquired, labeled, and archived in a machine-based database.

For Vibration Analysts, Field Technicians, Engineers, and Plant Managers. Something for everyone is this webinar.

Presenters:

Mark H. Richardson, CEO and Founder

Brian Schwarz, Director of Engineering Applications

When: Thursday, October 19th @ 2pm ET

Cost: Free

Why renew my SMS? Glad you asked..

• Download and install the latest MEscope software date code, which contains enhancements and new features.
• Receive technical support via phone and email from Vibrant engineers.
• Access all the MEscope support resources from the Vibrant website.
• Windows changes over time. Windows 10 has even changed since it first came out in 2015, most notably adding support for high resolution monitors.

You can also add additional Options to MEscope while renewing SMS..

• Our VES-9000 Video ODS is a popular add on. Video ODS lets you get a first look at how your machine or structure is moving using just a cell phone.
• With VES-700 or VES-780, you can acquire data from several different manufacturers hardware directly from within MEscope.
• If you are just doing ODS right now, you may want to add VES-4000 to start looking at resonances and seeing how modes affect your machine or structure.

Contact sales@vibetech.com today with your MEscope license number to receive a quote for your SMS renewal.

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Renew once..Set it and forget it!

Contact sales@vibetech.com today with your MEscope license number for details and pricing on Lifetime MEscope SMS.

9/27/2023 release build

VES

• Use the ParticipationMatrix when displaying participation.
• Correct the tooltips used for the display of participation
• Correct a search used to find the participation dialog which was used to position the participation dialog.
• Do not change the animation source when positioning other source windows. (SHP/ACQ/BLK)
• Change the text shown in the Machine mapping form to read "OK" instead of "close" to clarify the intent of the dialog.
• Correct the change tracking so that the commands SHP Shape/Measurement SS copy cell to clipboard/Variable will not set the 'Has changed' flag for the window.
• Add a semaphore to allow a background thread that writes data to the MEC DB to unwind before a new MEscope command is processed. (part of the VES 'Archive | Save Archive' command)
• Add code to properly rebuild the hotkeys shared between MEscope and Console so that those hotkeys function properly when they ar clicked on in Console.

MMS Console

• Update and cleanup of the process files used to make a release build of the Console application.
• Remove the Console splash screen and the graphics shown in the Console 'About Box' Console is now restricted to the MMS startup. QTS and ESS can be re-added later.
• Addition of WPF routines to allow for animation amplitude and animation speed changes in Console.
• Correct an issue with Radial point animation.

No time for processing ODS Videos?

New to Video ODS™ and want to see results quickly?

Let us do the work for you…

How it Works!

It’s simple….record a 10-12 second video of your vibrating machine or structure, visit vibetech.com and pay for the Video ODS Assist option via credit card, upload your video, and in a week or less you’ll receive your post-processed Video ODS!

Packages start at just $399

Missed the last MEscope webinar or just need a refresher?

Our Vibrant YouTube page has a full archive of all our MEscope webinars.

From our last webinar:

MEscope Webinar: Comparison of Video ODS’s from an iPhone

Cell phones can record videos at four different sampling rates, called frames per second or fps. An iPhone can record at 30 fps, 60 fps, 120 fps, and 240 fps.

Videos recorded at these sampling rates provide order-based ODS’s for machines running at less than 900, 1800, 3600, and 7200 RPM respectively. Even aliased higher frequency ODS’s can often be extracted from lower frequency data.

In this webinar, we will show how ODS-FRFs are calculated from video recordings of a rotating machine running at 1450 RPM. Then the ODS’s extracted from videos of the machine recorded at different fps’s are numerically compared. This confirms the accuracy and reliability of using cell phone videos as a non-contacting way of measuring machine vibration.