Patent ID: 6484109
Filing Date: 2002-11-19
Classification: G01H

Abstract:
In an environment including a plurality of machines which are to undergo predictive maintenance, a system for performing predictive maintenance comprising:a plurality of portable data collector/analyzers operatively configured to communicate with one another; and at least one medium for permitting the plurality of portable data collector/analyzers to communicate with one another at least periodically, wherein each of the portable data collector/analyzers comprises: a transducer for being attached to a machine included among the plurality of machines, and for producing an output signal indicative of vibration of the machine; circuitry for conditioning the output signal and converting it to vibration data; a memory having a database stored therein, the database including vibration data obtained from the plurality of machines; and a database replication engine for replicating data in the database with data in the database of each of the other of the plurality of portable data collector/analyzers, via the at least one medium.