WaveBook Application Notes


Pyrotechnics Device Testing– NEW: IOtech's WaveBook data acquisition system is used by a manufacturer to acquire critical information during the testing of pyrotechnic devices.
Power-Grid Balance Testing: IOtech's WaveBook collects the critical data that systems analysts need to create accurate models and simulators to ensure safe and reliable power-generating systems.
Ballistic Ejection Seat Testing: IOtech's WaveBook measures acceleration, pressures, and forces in ballistic-driven mechanisms and rocket motors used on pilot ejection seats.
Automotive Brake Testing: IOtech’s WaveBook dramatically cut costs on dynamic brake tests for warranty returns.
Transient Voltage Measurements: Motor current transient at the Sizewell Nuclear Power Plant in Great Britain are measured, monitored, and analyzed with an IOtech WaveBook.
Timing Chain Testing: A WaveBook records and analyzes critical data during the validation and life testing of automobile timing-chain systems.
Hydraulic Component Testing: Hydraulic components for off-road vehicles have a better life when IOtech WaveBooks monitor their durability tests.
Automobile Torque Converter Testing: WaveBooks help characterize high-performance cars as well as fuel-efficient commuters for achieving optimal durability and drivability.
Automatic Transmission Testing: WaveBooks provide the shift test data needed to assign realistic engineering units to otherwise subjective vehicle-handling performance parameters.
Machine Shock & Vibration Testing: Optimized support frames isolate sensitive machines from shock and vibration.
Deep Water Platform Analysis: IOtech DaqBooks and WaveBooks collect high-frequency vibration signals from simulations of a floating oil rig's support structure.
Military Vehicle Body Mount Testing: Military vehicles run over wild terrain while engineers measure and record engine mount performance in real time with IOtech’s WaveBook – conveniently powered from the on-board 12 VDC supply.
Vehicle Noise, Vibration, and Harshness Testing: New production vehicles that don’t meet QA’s noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) standards immediately loop back through the test lab and connect to IOtech’s WaveBook data acquisition systems for analysis.
Vehicle Transmission and Brake Testing: A company that designs and builds precision test machines and vehicle test systems for major auto makers and automotive component manufacturers, chose the WaveBook due to its modularity, software compatibility, and easy integration.
Military Vehicle Off-Road Testing: Automotive engineers monitor the effects of off-road driving on a military vehicle.
Airbag Testing: A manufacturer of airbag ignitors uses the WaveBook to examine the ignitor's response time and trigger detection mechanism during the unit's design and test phase.
In-Vehicle Brake Testing on Trucks: An original-equipment manufacturer of truck braking systems uses the WaveBook to verify lab tests in the field.
Testing Manufacturing Equipment: A company that manufactures equipment for engine component production (i.e. pistons, crank shafts, valves) for the OEM market selected IOtech’s WaveBook data acquisition system for their application.
Aluminum Welding: A major auto manufacturer investigating better ways to optimize the welding of aluminum performed by robots, selected IOtech’s WaveBook PC-based data acquisition system for their application.
Hearing Implant Research: Specialty hearing aid designed with PC-based data acquisition system can help people with severe deafness.
Lumber Research: The water content and fiber structure of raw stock board is an important characteristic in determining its strength and use – university researchers chose the WaveBook PC-based data acquisition system.
Pharmaceutical Control Testing: Process control engineers at a pharmaceutical company selected a portable, PC-based digitizer as the primary production line monitoring tool for the startup, optimization, and maintenance of a new production line process.
Conveyor Field Service: A producer of custom conveyors and cam-driven parts-handling systems uses a portable,
PC-based digitizer to identify excessive mechanical vibration sources at customer sites upon installation.
Injection-Molding Testing: WaveBook replaces DSO used for plastic injection mold machinery test diagnostics.
Surface Grinder Monitor: A manufacturer of ceramic wheels for precision surface grinders uses the WaveBook to monitor vibration, breaking force, and acoustic emission on multiple units in an industrial environment.
Appliance Testing and Design: A nationally known supplier of commercial air conditioning systems uses the WaveBook data acquisition system to provide the aggregate speed and resolution required to capture and display acquired waveforms.
Golf Club Testing and Design: The WaveBook is used in the design a golf club which delivers the maximum amount of force to the ball without generating excessive shaft vibration that will be transferred to the hands of the golfer.
Explosive Ordnance Testing: Engineers at an explosive ordnance test site validate the effectiveness of earthen protective structures with the WaveBook/512.
Pilot Training: A military-based company developed an approach to gauge how well pilots-in-training were firing their aircraft's weaponry.
Power Quality Testing: A power industry supplier develops a compact notebook PC-based power-demand and line-quality monitoring system.
Bridge Support Monitoring: A civil-engineering consulting firm has developed an easy-to-use, nondestructive solution to accurately determine the support-piling depth of bridges.
High-Current Generator Testing: A major supplier of electricity and natural gas on the west coast chose IOtech’s WaveBook data acquisition system as the best solution for their test application.