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Overview
Condition monitoring for rotating machinery is widely
acknowledged as a valuable tool for implementing a
preventive maintenance strategy, helping to identify
faults as they develop, and allowing appropriate planning
of remedial actions to be carried out before costly
breakdowns occur.
Reliable
Easy to Use
Industry Proven
Gas circulators
All data is processed and stored within an on-board hard Close a set of relay contacts (to provide alarm status
disk in each Beran PlantProtech analyser. The data is information to other systems)
accessed and displayed using a Windows PC running Automatically store the immediately preceding high
the PlantProtech Vision software, these PCs are located resolution data for diagnostic purposes.
wherever they are needed, providing any number of users
This approach ensures the minimum of information
with simultaneous access to condition monitoring data
is stored when a plant item is operating normally and
across the plant. Remote users can also gain access to
the maximum is stored before and after an incident,
the data via corporate WAN or modem links.
optimising the Beran System storage capability.
Modem links can be made available to allow remote off-
site Vibration Analysts to access any monitored plant
item and view identical condition displays to those at the
plant - even in real-time.
PlantProtech 767 Portable Analyser storage, acquisition rate increase and contact closure.
To complement the permanent installations provided by A comprehensive range of real-time and historic data
the 768/766 based condition monitoring systems, Beran displays are available, and data can be exported in CSV
Instruments also have the perfect solution for temporary format for balancing programs, Excel, etc. The unit has a
monitoring installations. high capacity solid-state disk for data storage.
Overview Mimic
Multiple simultaneous users can access the Beran A mimic, customised to suit the plant monitored, provides
PlantProtech systems and select whichever display an overview pictorial view that delivers an easy-to-use
formats suit their needs, without affecting data acquisition summary of the current vibration levels and process
or other users. parameters, allowing the operator to determine precisely
which area to investigate further. Colour changes inform
Plant condition displays include Bode (stacked and
the operator if any vibration channel or process parameter
multi-plot), Polar, FFT, Orbit, Time-Domain, Histogram,
moves from a normal operating condition into alert or
Waterfall, Shaft Centre Line, Real-Time Text and Trend.
alarm status. The operator can then access either a real-
Both real-time and historic data may be simultaneously
time display or view the alarm log to assist in determining
displayed, including the ability to view a current run-up or
plant condition.
coast-down overlaid onto a reference or historic file.
Export to CSV
Histogram Multiplots
Provides an at-a-glance view of overall vibration levels or Multiplots allow different parameters to be displayed
other key plant parameters. The colour of the bar gives an against a common X-axis. This display shows vibration
immediate indication of alert and alarm status. data from four bearings over time, with the individual full
scale Y-axes differentiated by colour.
Orbit
Orbit display showing overall orbit and filtered orbit for
a Gas Turbine run-up. The graph may be configured to
show individual bearings or a combination of positions
along the machine. The tracking cursor along the top of
the display is used to display the orbit data at a selected
time/speed. The user may display four separate bearings
or alternatively, a single bearing offset by X acquisition
points. This allows the progression on the orbit shape to
Colour waterfall
Single bearing FFT waterfall displayed with speed as the
trace colour change parameter and order tracking lines
enabled. The colour parameter may be selected from
RPM, time, static parameter, etc.
Log Files
The PlantProtech systems automatically log all alarm
events, changes in plant operational mode, system
configuration changes and user access to the system.
Overview
Alerts and alarms with hysteresis are available for both
dynamic, static and process channels. Separate vector
alarms are provided for all monitored harmonics on both
amplitude and phase, including step changes.
Storing the rolling buffer data (one hour before, or Combination alarm based on machine mode and
30 minutes before and after) process parameter
Description
The PlantProtech Auto Archive Downloader application
has been designed to automatically retrieve data files
and alarm logs from Beran PlantProtech Monitors on
demand or at a scheduled time. The retrieved data from
multiple PlantProtech Monitors may then be:
LA
Reviewed using PlantProtech Vision software
N/
WAN
and Basestation applications.
/Intern
Converted into an open format.
Beran PlantProtech Archiver(s)
Read by customised data screening
et
applications.
TransCalTM
To complement our range of condition monitoring
systems, Beran Instruments manufactures a
comprehensive range of transducer calibration systems,
including the Beran 445 Portable suitable for localised
verification of transducers in situ.
Beran Instruments supply and service the international ISO 9001:2000 UKAS system approval.
market from purpose built headquarters in the UK,
Helitune is an associate company and world leader in
supported by direct sales and service subdivisions in the
aircraft Rotor Track and Balance (RTB) technology.
USA and Europe, and distributors around the world.
Helitune products include an innovative range of
Beran Instruments product range includes:- vibration analysis and diagnostic systems, specialising
in the dynamic balance of helicopter rotors and
Condition Monitoring Systems for rotating machinery
aircraft propellers. More details can be found at
Automated Calibration Systems for vibration and www.helitune.com.
microphone transducers
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Beran USA
Beran Instruments
190 Gordon Street
Elk Grove Village
IL 60007, USA
A CMG Company