Cloud Signal Analysis Software for Vibration Analysis
Standalone graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are useful for providing an initial overview of your data and performing some analysis. Wading through the sea of software options out there can be daunting. Here's a look at some software packages for vibration analysis.
Software Packages
The following represent a select few of many different standalone GUIs available on the market for vibration analysis.
- VibrationData ToolBox
- enDAQ Lab
- DADiSP
- DPlot
- m + p International
- VibrationVIEW
- Bruel and Kjaer
- ProAnalyst
Free and Paid Options
Standalone graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are nice for providing that initial overview of your data and performing some analysis. But wading through the sea of software options out there can be daunting.
Free Options
enDAQ Lab
The enDAQ Lab is available for free along with some example recording files. This software currently only works with enDAQ sensors (formerly Slam Stick) recording files; but we have plans to open this up to be able to import files in the future. The software only has basic analysis capabilities but it covers the major ones typically needed: FFT, PSD, spectrogram, unit conversion, and general plotting.
enDAQ Cloud Platform
The enDAQ Cloud platform has a lot of functionality in its free tier to analyze shock and vibration data quickly and easily. For now, like the Lab, it can only analyze data generated from enDAQ sensors. But we will allow for CSV imports in the near future! These reports that are generated are highly interactive right from the web browser so no installation is required! The reports can be shared with a URL if you provide the log-in details too. The reports can be exported also and then converted to CSV or HTML files per plot for further analysis. All that functionality just mentioned is available in the free tier, but there are paying tiers that allow you to completely customize with your own code.
Paid Options
Tom Irvine's Software
Tom Irvine offers both a MATLAB and Python version of his signal analysis and structural dynamics software GUI. These offer great versatility because it has a nice GUI which is easy to work with; but all the source code is available if you need to take the next step and perform your own custom analysis.
DADiSP
DADiSP is an alternative and hybrid between the ease of use of Excel spreadsheets with the flexibility and computational power you get with MATLAB or similar programming languages.
DPlot
DPlot is the cheapest option on the list (besides the free ones above) and only costs $195 per license.
m + p International
This company specializes in vibration testing, specifically modal. They have a variety of hardware products for data acquisition but also some software packages for post processing and analyzing data in real-time.
Vibration Research’s VibrationVIEW
Vibration Research’s VibrationVIEW software is another alternative to post processing and analyzing vibration data in real time.
Xcitex’s ProAnalyst
Xcitex’s ProAnalyst software is unique in that it uses video for determining vibration levels and analyzing them. Seems like a very powerful tool that can simplify the hardware setup! The costs don’t seem too ludicrous either, only $1,795 for their introductory edition. It quickly starts climbing towards $10K and beyond though for the professional edition and different toolkits.
FEMtools
For modal analysis and validating CAD models with experimental data, FEMtools is a very powerful tool.
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