National Instruments Releases LabVIEW Toolkit for Machine Prognostics

By DE Editors

National Instruments introduced the Watchdog Agent Prognostics Toolkit for NI LabVIEW system design software, which expands the capabilities of LabVIEW in machine prognostics and health management (PHM) applications. The toolkit is a product of collaboration between NI and the National Science Foundations Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on Intelligent Maintenance Systems at the University of Cincinnati.

The Watchdog Agent toolkit gives engineers a ready-to-run prognostics solution that can increase engineering efficiency for developing any PHM application. It provides a set of algorithms including logistic regression, statistical pattern matching, a self-organizing map, a support vector machine and a Gaussian mixture model. Engineers can use these algorithms to create machine and component status descriptors of operating states and failure modes. The algorithms convert multiple field sensory readings into summarized health information values for efficient monitoring.

In addition to integrating with the Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite, the Watchdog Agent toolkit can read history data collected from the NI measurement hardware, and also integrates with the IOtech eZ-TOMAS Technical Data Management Streaming (TDMS) data plug-in, vibDaq from CalBay Systems, or any other sensory data acquisition systems based on NI TDMS data files.

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