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Snapshot for Windows CE

Source: Bently Nevada Corporation
Snapshot for Windows CE is Bently Nevada's handheld portable data collection and analysis package
Snapshot for Windows CE is Bently Nevada's handheld portable data collection and analysis package built specifically for use with our System 1 Machinery Management software platform.
This portable data collection and analysis system features two fully functional channels and a third channel for phase and speed input. At less than 4 pounds, it is also one of the lightest and easiest to use portable data collection tools on the market.

With a clear touch screen, quarter VGA display, the backlit display provides excellent viewing of diagnostic plots. In-field analysis is enhanced with quick and easy setup for data acquisition and display. Snapshot for Windows CE provides a tool powerful enough for a rotating machinery engineer, but with an intuitive user interface.

Simple connection to the host System 1 software, and the ability to interface multiple Snapshot for Windows CE devices, provides a cost-effective entrance into a machinery management platform. The System 1 platform allows users a path to future integration of offline, periodic online, and continuous online data acquisition with a single display, open database, and many other machinery management tools. Starting with portable data collection, Bently Nevada offers a means to manage all your machinery assets from a single platform, with future expandability to add Decision Support capabilities (automated database audits and recommendations).

Designed with the industrial environment in mind, Snapshot for Windows CE is IP54- rated for harsh environments and is certified for use in hazardous areas. The removable lithium ion battery provides an in-use battery life of at least 8 hours. A Polycarbonate/ABS material was specifically chosen for the Bently Nevada designed, injection molded casing, to provide high impact resistance and durability.

A wide variety of measurement types and signal processing options are available with Snapshot for Windows CE. This includes Bently Nevada's patented REBAM technology for monitoring and analysis of rolling element bearings.

With 24 Mb of standard on-board memory, large data collection schedules can be accommodated along with extensive in-field analysis. Combine this with support for proximity, REBAM, velocity, and accelerometer vibration transducers, a temperature measurement option, numeric data, notes, and user configurable dynamic inputs, Snapshot for Windows CE is the only handheld portable data collection and analysis tool needed in the field.

While portable data collection products are not new for Bently Nevada, improving our existing Snapshot product line to create Snapshot for Windows CE involved the most extensive user needs definition process of any product Bently Nevada has ever developed. Users were invited to participate in our product definition discussions and exercises that took place in 11 sessions on three continents. These sessions took customer groups through the process of identifying their needs for portable data collection and analysis. These needs were refined during this process and prioritized by customers in terms of what was most important, as well as the development resource and cost associated with providing the specific features.

Bently Nevada Corporation, 1631 Bently Parkway Avenue, Minden, NV 89423. Tel: 775-782-3611; Fax: 775-782-9337.