Bently Nevada ADRE 408 DSPi User Manual

GE
Measurement & Control

ADRE* System

Bently Nevada* Asset Condition Monitoring

The ADRE System –
The Professional’s Choice

In 1980, we had a revolutionary idea. What if the methods for
collecting machinery and process data on tape and then tediously
turning it into plots could be automated? It would mean a dramatic
reduction in the time needed to diagnose machinery conditions,
allowing engineers to spend less time reducing data and more time
interpreting it. We called it the ADRE* System—Automated Diagnostics
for Rotating Equipment—and it truly revolutionized the industry.

More than 30 years and five successful product generations later,
the ADRE System remains globally recognized as the tool of choice
for professionals tasked with assessing machinery conditions in
the field and on the test stand. It has become the standard against
which all others are measured when it comes to on-demand,
flexible, field-rugged multi-channel machinery data acquisition.

It’s All About the User

For more than a quarter century, customers just like you have been

continually helping us refine the ADRE System to be everything

it needs to be. In fact, it’s the tool used by our own machinery

diagnostics field engineers around the world—“power users”

who rely on ADRE Systems every day to do their job. It’s also

the tool used by the field engineers of many leading machinery

manufacturers and consultants around the world. It’s found in

plants, research labs, test stands, and academic institutions. But

no matter where ADRE Systems are found, its users have this in

common: they insist upon the very best capabilities and the very

best value. In the ADRE System, they’ve found it.

Applications

Our latest generation of the ADRE System is everything you’ve
come to expect from the world’s premier data acquisition system
while exponentially boosting its power, performance, and ease
of use.

Flexible

The ADRE System is designed to handle a broader range of data
acquisition tasks than ever before. Whether you are collecting
data from control valves to understand process dynamics, studying
the electromagnetic behavior of locomotive motors on a test
stand, performing structural analysis and impact testing on piping,
or collecting start-up data on the rotor dynamics of a recently
overhauled steam turbine, the flexibility of the ADRE System makes
it a perfect fit. Whatever your parameter of interest, if it is available
as an electrical signal, the ADRE System can handle it, allowing it
to be used for more applications and in more industries than ever
before. And, unlike many generic data acquisition systems that—
although feature-rich—are difficult to configure and use, you won’t
spend hours configuring the ADRE System. You can go from “out of
the box” to “collecting data” in as little as ten minutes.

Continuous
and Discrete
Processing
Industries

Transportation • Aerospace • Automotive

Consulting • Rotor Dynamics

Power
Generation

Oil and Gas • Refining

Original
Equipment
Manufacturers
and Repair
Facilities

• Pulp and Paper

• Cement

• Food and
Pharmaceutical

• Bearing Design

• Fossil Fuel

• Hydro

• Wind

• Offshore Platforms

• Pipelines

• Test Stands

• Research and
Development

• Balancing Stands

• Water/Wastewater

• Mining

• Machine Tools

• Predictive Maintenance

• Machinery Diagnostics

• Nuclear

• Geothermal

• LNG

• Chemical/
Petrochemical
Processing

• Field Engineering

• Start-Up Assistance

• Remote and Onsite
Troubleshooting

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An Instrument
and An Analyzer

The ADRE system’s design philosophy was
to provide fully parallel, real-time signal
processing of not just every channel, but
every configured parameter as well. Unlike
devices that rely extensively on recording
raw data and then post-processing that
data for the parameters of interest, the
ADRE System is different. It works as
a realtime instrument allowing you to
stream not just raw data, but processed
data so you can see changes as they
happen—not after the fact. With the ADRE
System, you don’t sacrifice postprocessing
flexibility either. It delivers both. Data can
be manipulated and processed in many
different ways. In addition, the newest
version of ADRE includes an analog output
replay card and new molded cable to help
you playback collected data. ADRE allows
you to simultaneously replay up to 32
channels of raw data to external devices.

Enhancing
Your Productivity

Your value is in interpreting data. The less
time spent configuring the system, and then
gathering and reducing that data, the more
time you have to solve problems and deliver
information. We understand. Everything
about the ADRE system has been designed
with this in mind, allowing you to get the
data—all the data—quickly, easily, and even

remotely when required.

• Configure Simply

Drag-and-drop wizard configuration

reduces setup time and errors

• Collaborate Easily

Simultaneous data sharing via client/

server architecture

• Reduce Travel

Full remote operation via LAN/WAN—even

through corporate firewalls

• Save Time

“Out of the box” to data acquisition

in minutes

• Lighten Your Load

Everything you need is in one, easy-to-

carry, integrated instrument

One Device Does It All

With the ADRE system, gone are the days of
lugging separate instruments—oscilloscope,
spectrum analyzer, analog or digital tape
recorder, vector filters, signal conditioners,
and amp racks. Dramatic advances in
digital signal processing make it possible
to truly capture all the data, and the latest
version comes equipped with Modbus input
and output capabilities, so you can make
configuration changes and output static
data to/from ADRE to MODBUS-compatible
devices. For example, users can make
configuration changes from a DCS and also
receive ADRE data where it can be combined
with other process data for detailed analysis
in a test cell environment. The ADRE system
truly liberates you to the freedom of a single
instrument that’s easy to use and easy to
transport—without sacrificing any of the
data.

• Automate your Testing

Flexible, easy-to-change setup and

configuration features along with
high-resolution data capture make the
system ideal for test stand use and
factory acceptance testing

• Import Capabilities

Import Comma-Separated Values (CSV)

static and dynamic data into an ADRE
Sxp Database

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ADRE 408 DSPi Hardware

Convenient User Interface

A menu-drive front panel user interface allows
you to operate the instrument using pre­configured settings without connecting to a
computer—particularly useful for field jobs
where connection to a laptop is inconvenient,
impractical, or impossible.

Versatile Packaging

The 408 DSPi is equally at home machine-side
or in the lab via its standard carrying handles or
19-inch EIA rack-mount options.

WAN/LAN Enabled

As a hardened network appliance, the 408 DSPi
is specially engineered to work across corporate
firewalls and networks, allowing you to Move
Data, Not People* easily between a 408 server
and multiple ADRE Sxp software clients located
anywhere on the globe.

True Client/Server Ethernet Architecture

Multiple ADRE Sxp software clients can access a
single 408 simultaneously, or connect to multiple
408s operating independently. Each client has
completely independent control of and access to
data, just as with any true server.

Dynamic Input Cards

Each card accepts up to 8-channels of dynamic
waveform inputs and/or static inputs. Up to
32 inputs per 408 DSPi. Robust, convenient,
industry-standard SMA connectors are used for
all signal inputs, providing compatibility with
cabling used in the majority of today’s test and
measurement devices.

Modular

Each 408 DSPi chassis has 4 slots for signal input
cards, allowing you to mix 3-channel phase/
speed input cards and 8-channel dynamic input
cards for the specific channel counts and types
needed for each application. Populate your 408
with only what you need.

Analog Output Card

The newest version of ADRE 408 includes an
analog output replay card and new molded
cable, allowing simultaneously replay of up to 32
channels of raw data to external devices.

Digital Replay Card

The Digital Replay Card provides simultaneous
synchronous and asynchronous internal digital
reprocessing and playback of all channels
in the 408 DSPi. It maintains exceptional
accuracy and precision in the signal
reprocessing, far surpassing the capabilities of
other equipment and reprocessing techniques.

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