Diagnostic vibration data collector and analyzer
First Claim
1. In an environment including a plurality of machines which are to undergo predictive maintenance, a system for performing predictive maintenance comprising:
- a plurality of portable data collector/analyzers operatively configured to communicate with one another; and
at least one medium for permitting the plurality of portable data collector/analyzers to communicate with one another at least periodically, wherein each of the portable data collector/analyzers comprises;
a transducer for being attached to a machine included among the plurality of machines, and for producing an output signal indicative of vibration of the machine;
circuitry for conditioning the output signal and converting it to vibration data;
a memory having a database stored therein, the database including vibration data obtained from the plurality of machines; and
a database replication engine for replicating data in the database with data in the database of each of the other of the plurality of portable data collector/analyzers, via the at least one medium.
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Abstract
A diagnostic vibration data collector and analyzer which incorporates an expert system within a portable computer such as a laptop or notebook type computer. The expert system analyzes vibration data acquired via a sensor coupled to the collector/analyzer in order to diagnose a condition of a machine under test. Several collector/analyzers may form part of a system in which peer to peer replication of data and information is performed so as to obviate the need for a central host computer and/or data base. Such system may include one or more stationary computers also serving as peers.
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21 Claims
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1. In an environment including a plurality of machines which are to undergo predictive maintenance, a system for performing predictive maintenance comprising:
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a plurality of portable data collector/analyzers operatively configured to communicate with one another; and
at least one medium for permitting the plurality of portable data collector/analyzers to communicate with one another at least periodically, wherein each of the portable data collector/analyzers comprises;
a transducer for being attached to a machine included among the plurality of machines, and for producing an output signal indicative of vibration of the machine;
circuitry for conditioning the output signal and converting it to vibration data;
a memory having a database stored therein, the database including vibration data obtained from the plurality of machines; and
a database replication engine for replicating data in the database with data in the database of each of the other of the plurality of portable data collector/analyzers, via the at least one medium. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. In an environment including a plurality of machines which are to undergo predictive maintenance, a method for performing predictive maintenance comprising the steps of:
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employing a plurality of portable data collector/analyzers to collect vibration data from the plurality of machines, and storing vibration data collected locally by each of the plurality of portable data collector/analyzers in a corresponding database included in each of the plurality of portable data collector/analyzers; and
at least periodically replicating the data included each database of the plurality of portable data collectors with the data included in each database of the others of the plurality of portable data collectors. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A portable data collector/analyzer, comprising:
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a transducer for being attached to a machine in order to produce an output signal indicative of vibration of the machine;
circuitry for conditioning the output signal and converting it to vibration data;
a memory having a database stored therein, the database including vibration data obtained from the machine; and
a database replication engine for replicating data in the database with data in a database of each of a plurality of other portable data collector/analyzers.
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