NEWS RELEASE – Jan. 3, 2006 – Reliability and maintenance professionals seeking to improve the consistency and cost-effectiveness of their maintenance programs now can learn more about intelligent predictive maintenance (PdM) strategies through a series of free Web events hosted by National Instruments. Beginning Jan. 26, at 1 p.m.
(CST), and continuing every Thursday through the end of February, this series offers live demonstrations and discussions with leading industry experts on topics ranging from power and vibration monitoring techniques to ultrasonic sensing and automated thermography.Intelligent maintenance involves consistently monitoring a system for potential or impending machinery problems that could later result in costly system shutdown or injury to other system components. Discussions on strategies for building intelligent maintenance systems include:
- Jan. 26: "An Introduction to Intelligent Maintenance Systems," presented by Dr.
- Feb. 2: "Sound Advice in Ultrasonic NDT Test," presented by Olympus NDT and National Instruments
- Feb. 9: "New Considerations for Vibration Monitoring," presented by IMI Sensors and National Instruments
- Feb. 16: "The Benefits of Power System Acquisition, Analysis, and Dissemination," presented by Dennis Erickson, IEEE fellow and power system expert
- Feb. 23: "Techniques for Automating Thermography," presented by FLIR and National InstrumentsAbout National InstrumentsNational Instruments is a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation – a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists in industry, government and academia approach measurement and automation.
Jay Lee, director of the Center for Intelligent Maintenance Systems
Leveraging PCs and commercial technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs for test, control and design applications through easy-to-integrate software, such as NI LabVIEW, and modular measurement and control hardware for PXI, PCI, PCI Express, USB and Ethernet.
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 3,800 employees and direct operations in nearly 40 countries.
In 2004, the company sold products to more than 25,000 companies in 90 countries.
For the past six years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.
