Simcenter™ SCADAS™ hardware can be used for all your testing requirements. They include portable solutions, compact mobile units and autonomous smart recorders as well as high-channel-count laboratory  systems. Every device can be seamlessly integrated with dedicated and tailored  software packages for accelerated measure-ment setup and correctly formatted results and analysis, such as Simcenter Testlab™ Apps software and Simcenter Testxpress  on personal computers (PCs) and Simcenter Testlab software applications on tablets. This increases productivity throughout the testing cycle, from instrumentation to reporting.

Testing complex products

When developing new products, manufactur-ers are challenged to find the optimal balance between various, often conflicting require-ments, such as energy efficiency, noise and vibration and durability. Current products are complex, include smart systems and come in an increasing number of varieties.

Additionally, today’s fast-changing markets and classic cost and time-to-market develop-ment concerns put test departments under significant pressure. Increasing product complexity requires test engineers to handle a large variety of physical aspects and plan additional validation activities during the early design stages. Meanwhile, prototype testing needs to be conducted in a com-pressed timeframe.

Gaining insight and delivering quality

Simcenter SCADAS systems offer test engi-neers versatile and scalable high-precision measurement tools that can be used to con-duct productive measurements during all development stages. The solution allows you to quickly gain insight into the root cause of problems.

Simcenter SCADAS systems help you increase productivity by delivering the data quality and format required to get the job done right the first time for a wide range of analog and digital sensors. The flexibility, performance and precision of Simcenter SCADAS hardware makes it an excellent data acquisition system for a broad range of multi-physics measure-ment applications; at any scale, in the lab or the field and with a PC or through autono-mous recording. At the same time, using  Simcenter SCADAS systems provide in-depth coverage for dedicated acoustic, vibration and durability engineering tasks. With its modular design and multipurpose functional-ity, Simcenter SCADAS represents a secure investment that can easily be extended to the scale of your measurement requirements.

Take the fast track from measurement to insight

◆ Measure and synchronize a large variety of analog and digital sensor data for process-ing and analysis in a single file

◆ Obtain high data throughput for both  low- and high-sample rates• Use a single system for multi-physics applications

◆ Avoid multiple individual tests to gain instrumentation time

◆ Standardize, automate or autonomously run tests

◆ Streamline data acquisition, processing, analysis, reporting and sharing in a single integrated software application

◆ Facilitate plug-and-play deployment

A testing solution that fits your industry needs

◆ Combine various systems in a distributed setup

◆ Cover a wide variety of multi-physics critical applications

◆ Combine portable systems for field  measurements with high-channel-count laboratory frontends

◆ Transfer a large amount of data over long distances and multiple frames

Optimize your measurement precision and data quality

◆ Limited harmonic distortion

◆ Highly precise phase matching

◆ State-of-the-art signal-to-noise ratio and dynamic range

◆ Accurately synchronized time data for both low- and high-varying signals, even over long distances or in a distributed test setup

The Simcenter SCADAS family

The Simcenter SCADAS suite of data acquisition systems covers a broad range of engineer-ing applications for manufacturing industries. Here is a summary of system solutions:

Simcenter SCADAS Lab hardware is a rack-based, high-performance laboratory solution that offers channel-count independent data acquisition and highly reliable, high-speed throughput performance. Simcenter SCADAS Lab is well-suited for high-channel-count modal, aircraft ground vibration, acoustic, high-speed throughput or turbine testing applications.

Simcenter SCADAS Mobile hardware is designed for testing productivity and covers a wide range of noise, vibration, durability and multi-physics applications. Simcenter SCADAS Mobile frontends incorporate robustness, reliability and acquisition power into a portable, compact and rugged design.

Simcenter SCADAS Recorder system is an intelligent mobile system for data recording without PC. You can use Simcenter SCADAS Recorder autonomously, as a smart recorder operated by a tablet or as a frontend system for in-field and laboratory applications.

Simcenter SCADAS XS hardware is a handheld solution for noise and vibration testing. It provides the ideal size, flexibility and measurement performance for optimal mobility and comes with a tablet application that allows mobile diagnostics and troubleshooting, even by nonexpert users.

Simcenter SCADAS Satellite systems are designed for high-channel-count measurements in rough testing conditions. The distributed architecture puts digitalization close to the sensors, saving cabling costs, improving signal quality and facilitating faster test setup and results.

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