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TechnicalNews
A new generation of compact
monitors fills the gap
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ProductUpdate Brüel & Kjær
Vibro launches the new VC-
1500 compact monitor
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CaseStory VC-6000 compact
monitor used for monitoring
small hydroelectric generating
units
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FieldNews Retrofit of wind
turbines at Horns Rev offshore
wind farm
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ProductUpdate
Upgrade your COMPASS sys-
tem with a new operating sys-
tem release
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RenewableEnergy
"Remote condition monitoring
of Vestas turbines", paper pre-
sented at EWEC 2009
Events009
Uptime Megazine is a newsletter pub-
lished by Brüel & Kjær Vibro to keep you
up-to-date with new machine monitoring
trends and technologies. This issue fo-
cuses on High-end Compact Monitors.
If you have comments, ideas or case
stories, please contact:
The Editor, Uptime Megazine,
Brüel & Kjær Vibro,
DK-2850 Naerum, Denmark.
Tel.: +45 7741 2500
Fax: +45 4580 2937
E-mail: info@bkvibro.com
Copyright 2009, all rights reserved
Editor-in-cheif: Torben Ekvall
Managing Editor: Mike Hastings
Design&Production: Gitte Blå Design
Now is the time to
invest!
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W
elcome to the Spring edition of
Uptime. Taking advantage of
the Spring season, we have seeded
some thoughts that will enable you to
flourish throughout the forthcoming
months despite the impacts of the
global economic downturn.
The downturn has afforded many
companies the opportunity to invest
time in streamlining processes and
maintenance activities. Productivity
and efficiency of your machinery and
processes is in fact more critical now
than in the preceding boom years.
Cost reductions, such as reductions
in proactive maintenance expendi-
ture, can adversely effect production
availability, equipment reliability and
plant integrity, thereby effecting prof-
itability, business performance and
more importantly safety.
Machine condition and perform-
ance monitoring has been proven to
be the most powerful tool available
to increase productivity, efficiency
and reliability of your plant. Bruel &
Kjær Vibro is a company founded
on condition monitoring excellence,
augmented by an extensive condi-
tion monitoring product portfolio and
continues to offer improved solutions
for your specific needs to assist in
optimising the performance of your
machinery.
To complement the existing Compass
6000 integrated safety, condition and
performance monitoring system, and
to address the market need for an
inexpensive monitoring product with
powerful condition monitoring capa-
bility, we have recently released the
VIBROCONTROL500 (VC 1500).
This high-end compact monitor, like
the VC-6000compactmonitor,
provides a cost-effective monitoring
solution to a wide range of specific
machine applications.
Read more about the VC-1500 and
other exciting items in this issue of
Uptime!
Shohan
Seneviratne
Vice President,
Sales &
Marketing