Machine condition-monitoring system

Staff -- Control Engineering, 9/1/2003

HI 3600 Machine Monitor advanced condition monitoring system lets customers bridge the gap between vibration monitoring needs and plant control capabilities. The latest in Hardy's 3000 Series product line offers advanced condition monitoring capabilities on all types of reciprocating and rotating equipment. It can monitor up to 16 channels of vibration, impact, and rod drop measurements, and expand to an additional 16 channels to monitor other parameters, such as temperature, motor load, and pressure. Users can connect to HI 3600 through the embedded webserver, a Palm PDA (via an infrared port), other machine monitors by way of Hardy Control-Link network, via email notification, or through plant networks, including ControlNet, Profibus, or DeviceNet. In addition, supplementary communications options such as Modbus TCP (Modbus over Ethernet) and OPC may be used to transfer data and commands to and from a computer.www.hardyinstruments.com
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