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Publish Date: Jun 21, 2011

Performing Order Analysis in LabVIEW

Overview
With the National Instruments Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite, you can build custom LabVIEW-based measurement and automation applications with order analysis capabilities for order
tracking, order extraction, and tachometer signal processing. The Suite employs Gabor Order Tracking, a patented algorithm based on joint time-frequency analysis (JTFA), as well as conventional
resampling for online processing capability.
Included in the Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite is a set of VIs that you can drag and drop to build custom LabVIEW applications, enabling you to perform the following analysis operations:
Calculate and examine rotational speed
Measure power distribution in the frequency or order domain as a function of either time or rotational speed
Extract order components from noise or vibration signal
Measure magnitude and phase of any order component as a function of rotational speed
Present data in a waterfall, orbit, bode, or polar plot

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Description
Order Analysis Express VIs
Order Analysis Function and Description List
Demos
Documentation
Pricing and Purchasing

Description

Order analysis is a powerful tool used to study, design and monitor rotating or reciprocating machinery for which the rotational speed might change over time. As with frequency-domain analysis,
you can think of order analysis as a signal scalpel that can dissect sound, vibration, and other dynamic signals into components that relate to physical elements of mechanical systems. From this,
you gain a better understanding of the system and can identify characteristics that change with time and operating conditions. Unlike the power spectrum and other frequency-domain analysis
standards, order analysis works even when the signal source undergoes rotational speed variations or frequency/Doppler shifts.
The Order Analysis VIs included in the Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite present the capability to calculate and examine rotational speed and extract the order components from the original
noise or vibration signal. Power distribution can be measured as a function of either time or rotational speed and measuring the phase and magnitude of any order component as a function of
rotational speed is made easy. Data is displayed in waterfall, orbit, polar, or bode plots.
In addition to several advanced VIs that provide flexibility and increased control of the analysis process, this toolkit also includes a set of Express VIs which allow you to perform simple without
much programming. The toolkit also comes with extensive examples which demonstrate fundamental order analysis tasks such as data acquisition, data presentation, Gabor order tracking, and
resample order tracking for both analog and digital tachometer signal processing. By leveraging these examples, you can develop applications much quicker.
You can apply order analysis to dynamic signals generated by mechanical systems that include rotating or reciprocating components, such as turbines, compressors, pumps, and engines. It is
common to use order analysis in applications such as machine condition monitoring (MCM) and noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) testing. With the added capability for online processing, you

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can easily create flexible applications for condition-based monitoring and predictive maintenance. The National Instruments NI Dynamic Signal Acquisition devices are ideal for acquiring sound and
vibration signals with 24-bit A/D converters and anti-aliasing filters.
Order Analysis Express VIs
The Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite includes easy-to-use Express VIs for the most common applications including:
Analog Tachometer Signal Processing
Order Power Spectrum
Spectral Map Analysis for Waterfall and Colormap Plots
Order Tracking - Magnitude and Phase
Order Waveform Extraction
An example application is shown below for order tracking with 4 orders being tracked for magnitude and phase (1x, 2x, 3x, and 10x).

Order Analysis Function and Description List

Tachometer Processing
Order Power Spectrum
Order Tracking
Order Extraction
Angular Resampling
Waterfall Plot
Orbit & Shaft Centerline Plot
Polar & Bode Plots
Envelope Detection
Measurements
Display

Features
Waterfall display
Colormap display
Magnitude/phase
display

Description
Use the display VIs and indicators to
configure and utilize the graphs and
plots included to show acquired data
and processed results.

Cascade plot
Bode plot
Polar plot
Orbit plot
Timebase plot
Shaft centerline plot
Envelope
Analysis

Envelope Detection

Use envelope detection analysis to

identify mechanical faults that have an
amplitude-modulating effect on the
vibration signal of a machine.

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Order
Analysis

Gabor transform
(off-line)
Resampling (on-line)
Order power spectrum

Use the Order Analysis VIs to

calculate order-related results such as
order map, order magnitude and
phase, order spectrum, and order
waveform.

Order waveform,
magnitude, phase
Slow Roll
Compensation

Slow-roll compensation

Use the OAT Get Vector Reference VI

to extract the vector reference signal.
Use the OAT Get Even Angle
Reference VI to extract the
even-angle reference signal from the
slow-roll vibration and tachometer
signal. Use the OAT Compensate
Vector Signal VI to remove the
slow-roll errors in the vector signal.
Use the OAT Compensate Even Angle
Signal VI to remove the slow-roll
errors from the even-angle signal.

Tachometer
Signal
Processing

Analog and digital

tachometer signal
processing

Use the Tachometer Signal

Processing VIs to process analog and
digital tachometer signals.

Demos

Multi-Tachometer Processing with the Order Analysis VIs Example

Order Analysis for Machine Monitoring and NVH Interactive Tutorial
Patented Order-Tracking Algorithm
Four Practical Applications of Joint Time-Frequency Analysis
LabVIEW for Measurement and Data Analysis
10 Questions to Ask When Selecting Your Sound and Vibration Measurement System
Evaluate Order Analysis Software in LabVIEW
Test drive the NI Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite using the fully functional evaluation of the NI LabVIEW development environment, complete with select LabVIEW add-ons. Easily
accessible from your Web browser, this interactive online tool contains hands-on exercises to get you started and guide you through the basic functionality of the Sound and Vibration Measurement
Suite.
Try the Order Analysis VIs for LabVIEW online.
Documentation

LabVIEW Order Analysis Online Documentation

Pricing and Purchasing

Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite Purchasing Information

Related Links:
LabVIEW Sound and Vibration Toolkit
Downloads
oatproductdatasheet.pdf

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