Digital Output Connections and Signal View for vibration testing software

Digital Input and Output (DIO) is the most popular interface used to communicate and interact with external instruments. Each digital input and output channel has only two states, high and low. The Spider can respond to the state of a digital input channel from an external instrument (e.g., an amplifier, an analyzer) or send a digital output to an external instrument to urgently shut down a device.

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Crystal Instruments acquires Quality Test Services (QTS) in Huntington Beach, California

We are pleased to announce that Crystal Instruments has recently acquired Quality Test Services (QTS), an environmental test lab in Huntington Beach, California. QTS was initially founded by Eric Gerlach in early 2006. Prior to QTS, Eric spent many years within the aerospace industry working as a technical lead at Qualmark. Under Eric’s leadership, QTS became a well-known test lab in southern California serving various customers with high-tech environmental testing needs. Jeff Gerlach, Eric’s son, will succeed his father within the business and continue to run the lab as the test lab manager.

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New Messaging Protocol (MQTT Client and MQTT Broker) for EDM VCS, EDM DSA, and EDM THV

The implementation of MQTT in EDM allows users to monitor the status of environmental tests (vibration, temperature, humidity) running in EDM VCS and measurements taken in EDM DSA. Users can even remotely run a test. This new messaging protocol will replace Socket Messages in EDM.

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Rivian EV Battery Testing Training

The Crystal Instruments Support Team (CIST) recently visited Rivian in Normal, Illinois to provide training on EDM Dynamic Signal Analysis (DSA) and Vibration Control Systems (VCS) software for the battery test engineers. The training included a software overview focusing on vibration testing electric vehicle batteries.

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