CSI 2600 Machinery Health Expert
- Portable, 24-channel machinery health monitor and analyzer helps troubleshoot your entire machine or group of machines
- Includes transient analysis for turbo machinery startup, coast down, and production state monitoring
- Monitor and record all channels continuously and simultaneously for hours, days, or weeks – unattended
- AMS Suite integration saves time and facilitates multi-technology integration
- PeakVue™ technology can be added for early identification of bearing wear in paper machines, rolling mills, complex gearboxes and rolling element bearing machines
Introduction
Portable vibration analyzers are the cornerstone of a successful predictive maintenance program. However, some anomalies, like root cause investigations and machine train evaluations, can surpass the capabilities of even the most sophisticated 2-channel portable data collector. For example, turbo machinery start-ups, coast downs and production state monitoring require multi-channel, simultaneous recording, vibration monitoring, and real-time feedback to capture rapidly changing events across an entire machine train. For balance of plant critical machines, a mobile, multi-channel monitoring solution with rolling element and gearbox monitoring technology is necessary for root cause analysis and to determine if the machine will survive to the next outage.
One Tool to Fit Many Needs
Emerson’s CSI 2600 Machinery Health Expert satisfies the need between two-channel portable analyzers and permanently-installed online vibration monitoring by borrowing the best from both solutions. Before a planned outage, connect all 24 channels of the CSI 2600 to simultaneously record continuous time waveforms. With AMS Suite: Machinery Health Manager, view waveforms, spectral data, and live orbits. Replay events using a customized view for further analysis, or replay as a presentation to the maintenance staff. Configure the CSI 2600 for waveform processing using PeakVue technology, order tracking, time synchronous averaging, or predefined parameters for advanced analysis.
The CSI 2600 can be configured and applied in a variety of applications — diagnosing a suspected load, speed, or batch-dependent problem, bringing a new machine online, or verifying critical speed prior to machine acceptance from the vendor.
Innovative, Powerful
The CSI 2600 is a data collector, data viewer, data recorder and data manager in a single instrument. This unique tool can record continuous-time waveforms over 100 hours in length and allows you to view live plots with updates as fast as 5 times per second.
The CSI 2600 also offers:
- 8-256 hours of continuous, simultaneous data recording
- Live plot displays
- Replay mode (play, rewind, fast forward, stop,
auto-repeat) - Complete plot control during Replay mode
- Support for external hard drive arrays to extend recording and storage options
The CSI 2600 Machinery Health Expert interfaces directly with a laptop computer for immediate access to all data using AMS Machinery Manager. The laptop can be disconnected for unattended recording.
Getting Started is Simple and Fast
Connect the BNC cables from the protection rack or your accelerometers to the termination panel of the CSI 2600 and turn the power switch on. With a library of database templates to choose from, setup is simple and fast. Choose a template and 24 channels of vibration and 4 channels of speed/phase will begin recording. Connect the Ethernet cable and use your laptop to view live rotor diagnostic displays. Select Live View and your saved preferences for viewing orbits, shaft centerlines, waveforms, spectrums, and trends automatically display.
Continuous Data Recording, No Snapshots
The unique architecture of the monitor allows for these very powerful capabilities:
- Data recording is both continuous and simultaneous on all channels versus snapshots of data
- Monitoring and recording function remain uninterrupted, even while you perform data manipulation (such as live data viewing, analysis or even manual data extraction) via AMS Machinery Manager
Instant Replay
The Replay Mode is one of the most powerful analyzing tools introduced in AMS Machinery Manager v5.0. During Replay Mode, saved data from transient events can be used to simulate an event in real-time. Fast forward, rewind, or use slow motion and auto-repeat to view the event. Spread plots across dual monitors and select new filters as you replay the orbit plots. By controlling every view and all of the data generated by the event, you can analyze any machine event at your own convenience.
Rolling Element Bearing Monitoring
The CSI 2600 includes an option to add Emerson's PeakVue technology — a unique expert approach to monitoring the distinct characteristics of bearing and gearbox problems. The PeakVue technology utilizes a 6400-line resolution, 40kHz Fmax, and over 60,000 rolling element bearing fault frequency data files to deliver the earliest indication of developing bearing faults. In addition, the CSI 2600 includes order tracking, definable data collection strategies, configurable analysis techniques, and unattended automatic eventbased monitoring for customizing the data you collect during an event.