Software makes sense of dysfunctional data
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Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
May 16, 2005
ATA Engineering has entered into negotiations to acquire the VSI Rotate and Rotate Plus software products and related assets from Vold Solutions.
ATA Engineering (ATA) has entered into negotiations to acquire the VSI Rotate and Rotate Plus software products and related assets from Vold Solutions.
Dr Havard Vold, the principal architect of Rotate, has joined ATA Engineering as Vice President and Senior Technical Fellow.
Rotate will continue to be sold and supported by existing authorised resellers worldwide.
ATA Engineering is a nationwide provider of innovative, high-value test- and analysis-driven solutions to mission-critical mechanical engineering design needs.
ATA's engineers have been involved in the development and application of advanced test data analysis tools for 25 years, including some of the original pioneering work on modal testing software.
Before forming his company, Vold Solutions, in 1990, Dr Vold was Vice President and Senior Technical Fellow at SDRC from 1980 to 1992.
While at SDRC, he was a key developer of the I-deas test and finite element analysis modules.
As part of its strategic commitment to leadership in mechanical testing technology, ATA Engineering will invest in further development of Rotate software.
The product is respected and widely used today for advanced time-frequency analysis of rotating and driveline systems.
With its ability to resample to the angle domain, Rotate can make sense out of the most "dysfunctional" families of harmonics found in transmissions, bearings and gears.
ATA plans significant enhancements and domain extensions for the product, including analysis of nonstationary random loads and environments in the aerospace engineering domain.
Dr Vold, who will direct the product's development, noted: "Rotate now has a new growth path at ATA; it will evolve to provide unique tools to capture, analyse and describe transient dynamic phenomenon".
Product developments planned for Rotate in 2005 include a new AR-101 data acquisition system, which ATA will promote at this week's SAE Noise and Vibration Conference in Traverse City, Michigan (16th to 19th May 2005).
The National Instruments PXI-based system is a very cost effective solution for torsional-rotational measurement problems and is fully integrated with Rotate Plus data analysis software.
A maintenance update for existing Rotate users is scheduled in 2005.
ATA's consulting services team also expects to respond to a steady demand for the design and building of advanced custom testing systems for its key clients.
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