Hi, I'm Stu Miniman, joined with Brian Gracely, here at 60 South Street, downtown Boston, at BMC Day. Happy to have on the program for the first time. Madi Pitkinen, who's the Senior Director of Worldwide Performance and Availability Solution. Analyzing. Analyzing. Availability is also very important, so it's okay. But analytics- Sorry about that, Madi. So, you know, lots of acronyms out there. Tell us a little bit about your background and your role at BMC. Ah, okay. So, I've been with BMC. I like to say that I was raised by BMC. In January, I will have been with BMC for 20 years. And they're a wonderful company, or I wouldn't have stayed there that long. And actually, my background is quite diverse. I started out as a techie, an Oracle DBA. If, you know, there's still a thing, I'm pretty sure. But back in 7016 world, we were migrating from six to seven, so long, long time ago. And I started off in development. And from there, I kind of took my hand at almost everything within BMC.  I wanted to interact more. I wanted to help take our message and what we were doing to the market. And I joined our solutions marketing team, and I currently lead that effort around our performance and analytics business. That was a mouthful. So, we've heard a lot today about really, you know, talking about digital transformations, and the transformation that's gone on with BMC. So, since the company went private, you know, how should we be thinking about BMC? What's the positioning that, you know, when do we think about BMC? Okay, so that's the thing. One thing I can do probably better than most people here is talk about the transformation that BMC has gone through. So, BMC has definitely had some major ups and major downs over the 20 years. And most recently, so people have asked me that. That's a common question. I can think of some really high points early in, you know, 2004, 2005, and 90s. And then we've had some rough points, but the acquisition was by far one of the best things that could have happened to BMC. I'm going to tell you a story. I'm a storyteller, so I hope that's okay. That's great. I'm not formal, which is probably why I'm better in marketing than maybe I was in the engineering role. I was at an airport in London. Excuse me, I was catching a flight to Stockholm. And I was just chit chatting. I was just making friends, right?  It was about a year and a half ago. You're with BMC. I want to say he was with Cisco or he was with, he was one of the big companies. And I said, yeah, it's a great company. He looked at me and he went, you know, it's kind of scary. Aren't they just taking the company and pulling it apart and selling it for pieces? And I looked at him and I went, no. And I said, but if I'm going to be honest, I think that crossed everybody's mind. What really they've done by going private is they invested. And all of a sudden, areas where we wanted to develop and get creative and do some things outside the box. I mean, you think about it, it's a risk. And when you have all these shareholders to worry about, it's a lot harder to take that risk, especially because everything requires funding. And I said, what they've done is they've taken tons of money and they've poured it into my group and in other groups at BMC. And all of a sudden we're developing and we're innovating and it's actually a very, very exciting time. So what I can say is those words are probably even more true now. And what we're starting to see are some of the fruits of that labor. We're starting to come to market. We made a re-snack position with TrueSight Pulse and we took that to market in September timeframe and that's venturing us into the DevOps space and it's exciting what we're about to do. In fact, we just announced support for Docker. So we're getting into the containerization world and we're helping our IT constituents and our customers be able to support technology like that. And then of course, TrueSight Intelligence. And that's coming out at the start of the calendar year. We'll really make a big push probably around the end of the first quarter, second quarter. And what that's doing is that's taking IT and what's become so critical to IT and allowing them to have that connection to the business and become in an essence more intelligent about how they run their internal operations. So you talked about storytelling. Everything today was just kind of, we're at the beginning of this next big transformation. People, and for a lot of companies, internally they have to tell stories. I mean, how am I going to get from here to who I'm competing against? How am I going to, as a marketer, especially around your private company now, which is different than being a public company, what changes from how you try and explain what BMC does and then maybe help your customers tell their internal stories. Does it change a lot as a private company versus a public company? Do you have more freedoms to talk about things? Well, I mean, I think we still have to follow the same rules as everybody else. So there's certain limitations still on what we can share and what we can't share. As far as storytelling, what I would say is the journey is a different one. So it is very different in the sense of, I think in the past we were very bound with, these are our solutions. We knew what brought in money, right? And you look at traditional IT and where it stood. And we've been supporting traditional IT for, was it 30 something years? I don't know the exact amount of time. But now we're getting into spaces that maybe we weren't in before. And I think what we're able to do is actually talk to innovations, talk to new areas, new disciplines. DevOps is one I brought up, containerization is another. And what I'm allowed to do now, I probably would have been allowed to, technically allowed to do it before, but maybe I wouldn't have because the belief, the truth wasn't there. But I can talk about these things even if we don't necessarily support them yet. So it's this ability to, not just craft a vision, everybody has to craft a vision, but it's a real vision. And it's this notion of, hey, you know, and I know about Docker, but it's in my mind right now, but Docker, I mean, in the past, we might've talked about internally Docker and we knew it was there, but we didn't necessarily have support. So it became something you become fearful of. But now we have this freedom. I don't know it's the culture, it's the vibe, but maybe we didn't have it yet, but we knew we were going to work towards it. We knew it was important and I could talk about it. I wasn't saying anything wrong. Does that make sense? Yeah. I'm curious, you bring up Docker and we've really hard topic. We've been at DockerCon. How much of that is your customers coming to you and saying, where are they? Where are your customers? How much of it is a push versus a pull? How does it come up in the conversation? So customers are definitely talking to us about it, right? But I think one thing that's different, so customers will always help us and guide us with our solutions. But we also recognize that IT in itself is changing. And so maybe the things that our traditional customers were doing, they want to venture out and they're not used to coming to BMC for it. So if we look at Docker, I think our customers are venturing there, but not necessarily have come to us and said, hey, BMC, we need support. What we're able to do now is recognize the trends that are in the market and start to take action. And so what we've discovered, I mean, Docker obviously, it's a natural thing to do. It's important, it's critical. I think we're going to see a lot more of it, right? But what we're able to do is go out and provide that support and we're having conversations with customers who are like, wow, we were just talking about having to run support and I had no idea what I was going to do. And they were looking, but they weren't thinking necessarily BMC and now they are starting to. They're starting to get that, hey, we're not one of the, what did somebody describe us as? One of the big stodgy, you know, we're actually not. We're kind of, we're pretty cool now. Yeah, so one of the themes that's been discussed a lot is how fast things are changing. When I think about solutions marketing, building that pipeline of solutions, there's a process that's involved and usually you come up with the idea, you create it, you push it out, you go to market, you get traction. How does that rate of change affect what's happening in solutions marketing? Well, I mean, even marketing, if you look at it, it's got to be agile, right? And you know, one of the things that's interesting is if you look at software companies and IT companies, there's a big push to selling towards marketing. And I think it's because marketing has become very analytical. You don't just go and create a flyer and mail it out anymore, right? Nobody gets that kind of stuff anymore. It's all digital, it's all on your laptop. I mean, look what we're doing here today, right? This is very, very different than what we would have done in the past. So we have to change, marketing has to change as rapidly as well. You can't take eight weeks to build a white paper. You need to understand what the customer is thinking and you almost need to, in some ways, not just as a second guess, but predict the trends and start to act on them and start to figure it out. So what we do, we tie very closely with product management. So in the marketing realm, we're working with them and their vision, but in many ways, we're also seeing firsthand the vision of our customers and we're having to tie the two and then we're quickly having to change the way that we're taking the message forward. Does that make sense? So you're talking about Docker, you're talking about some of these cool open source types of the Unicorn stuff.  It's open source tools, it's open source. But we talked, the keynote today was how do I link the new systems of engagement, which is the new cool stuff with systems of record and how much do you guys have to get more into being around those communities and make people understand that, yes, you might be doing stuff with Docker or something new and cool, but you've got to link back to those other systems that have that data and BMC may start having those interconnection points more and more. How do you get into those communities? It's not easy, let me tell you, because we're not traditionally thought that way, but it is important to maintain our link back to where we were. So if you look at industrial IT, and it sounds like a nasty term and I don't think it is, I think it's actually important, because even the cool, hot DevOps IT centers need to deliver a certain level of performance and availability that assurance has to be there. And that really came from industrialized IT, this ability, quick time to resolution, et cetera. So we live there, we're helping them make sure they can support the technology, but we are venturing out open source, we brought that up. We need people to understand that we're not the BMC back then. You guys, are you familiar with BSM? Okay, so BMC, when we launched the BSM business service management message and we took that to market, it was in many ways ahead of its time with this integration of all the components and the shared messaging. But one of the things that I think at the time we were trying to do was convince everyone that, hey, if you get BMC across the board, then you integrate everything and it's nirvana. Right. One big thing that has shifted within BMC, and I can speak to performance analytics, I think I can speak across BMC overall. We get it, it's not going to all be BMC. Even if I look in the monitoring space, a typical company has what, 30, 50 different monitoring tools that have just been pulled in and brought in. We have to think broader, we have to take BSM. It's a great idea. We want everything integrated, but it can't be all BMC and so we've opened our arms and we take integrations and we work with solutions, even some that our competitors are taking to market, and we have to. And I think that you'll continue to see that change. And then open source, we've always used open source technology. So that's nothing new, but what I think you're going to start to see from BMC is us really giving back. And we're starting to work on, you know what, if you look at our intelligence solution, we have a lot of open source technology in that that's coming to market. What can we take and we're working on? What do we take and give back to the open source community? And that's something we've never done before. So it will take time. Yeah, but a lot of big changes coming. Well, yeah, but I think it's necessary. Excellent. All right. Well, Marty, I think that's a great place to end the conversation here. Thanks for sharing with us everything on performance and availability. Analytics. Analytics. Well, you could say that it's okay. You know what? You know, in the keynote, it said that Bill Bills was performance and availability. Oh, analytics. You're fine. Thanks so much. I actually think it's just important, so it's okay. Yeah, performance and analytics. Absolutely hugely important in what's going on. We'll be back with more coverage from BMC Day. Thanks for watching.


we discussed about basics of instrumentation. Today we will be focusing mostly on the actual sensors and transducers which are used for condition based maintenance and of course this list is a pretty exhaustive. But we will be focusing mostly on the transducers which are commonly used mostly for vibration monitoring, current monitoring, temperature detection etcetera. Well to briefly discuss you know not shall the transducers which are used in CBMR for vibration usually the accelerometers are used. So, you know whatever you see within the parenthesis in the slide are actually the name of the transducers. So, the mechanical parameter vibration is used by accelerometer is measured by accelerometers. The noise or sound which we hear or machinery is radiate is measured usually by a microphone. This both the accelerometers and microphone could also be used to measure the noise underwater when you are talking about a propeller noise inside the sea. And in that case those are known as hydrophones other than microphones. Similarly, if you want to measure the vibration of a offshore structure which is submerged in the water you could use perhaps underwater accelerometers. Now we will discuss about them later on. But another very important parameter in mechanical machines as you would have seen in signal processing is related to the rotational speed. Because you know as I was telling you a machine needs to operate and particularly you will see that in many of these machines the most common element is a shaft which is rotating and held on couple of bearings. So, the rotational speed of the shaft may change may fluctuate with time because of load because of defects. So, the instantaneous measurement of rotational speed at all times is very very important. You know we would have studied in our undergraduate you know instrumentation courses that we use accelerometer to press on a shaft and then we say use a mechanical tachometer to measure the rotational speed. But in a remotely operating machines you know where there are no persons I possibly cannot have anybody stick in a tachometer mechanical tachometer to a rotating shaft. So, we have to think of optical ways or the key trigger like the key phasor which are used to measure the rotational speed. Another important aspect which we need to measure is the motocurrent signature analysis. So, current needs to be measured. Current we use you know we have used amateurs to measure the RMS current. But current waveform has to be measured you could be using what is known as a hall effect sensor we will discuss that. And the next comes temperature. Temperatures you know I do not mean you know temperature of a human being here, but temperature of machineries, temperature of bearings, temperature of oil bars in the gear boxes and these temperatures could be very very high. I mean imagine temperature of a blast furnace inside a blast furnace I possibly cannot stick in a thermometer to measure the temperature of a blast furnace. So, we have to use certain non-contacting type sensors like the infrared or the pyro meters and certain high temperature, high range of temperature which could be measured or perhaps the thermocouples or the RTDs you know resistance temperature detectors. And then in many of the process parameters particularly in chemical plants wherein you know people need to measure the flow rates of certain fluids or slurries. And how do you measure such flow rates you know in the lab we all have used you know venturi meters, rotameters, you know pitot tubes etcetera or if a system measure the flow rates. But then you would have seen you know where there you know you need to measure the pressure difference from pressure difference you need to calculate the flow rates you have to you need to know the area of the pipe and so on. Turbine flow meter is another device which could be very easily put online on a pipeline and then all you will be getting is a certain speed of at which the fluid is flowing through it and once you know the area of the pipeline if you multiply that you will get the flow rate instantaneously. So, when the processes are very dynamic when the flow rates are changing because of the operations on the plant particularly in large oil refineries and chemical plants that is where we use turbine flow meters. And another important very important NDT non-destructive test technique is the measurement of the thickness you know as I was telling you there is a pipeline because of the fluid flowing through the pipeline what happens deposits get deposited in the inner wall of the pipeline. So, that is going to affect the flow rates. So, such scale formation or deposits will reduce the internal thickness of the pipe. So, from outside how do I know that such a build up has occurred in the inner walls of the pipeline this could be very easily measured online by an ultrasonic thickness gauge. Sometimes people even do an portable x ray radiography of the tube from the outside particularly in boiler tubes when there is lot of scale formation because the water flowing through the pipelines there is scale deposits and the thicknesses get reduced because of rather thicknesses increases. So, the effective diameter of the pipeline for flow reduces and this can be measured by techniques like radiography or ultrasonic thickness gauge. And another important applications of ultrasonic thickness gauge which I had told earlier also suppose there are internal cracks in the structure in the which cannot be seen visibly from the outside. So, if we have an ultrasonic probe it can be used to measure the presence of the crack. So, I will begin one by one to begin with let me tell you what this accelerometer is about. This is just a piezoelectric accelerometer we had studied the basic of accelerometers in the lecture on vibrations. Essentially what happens is let me tell you the internal mechanism here I have a mass here. So, essentially if this is put on a structure which is having a motion x ok. So, on to this I put an unit like this. So, I would like to measure the motion x. Now, what happens because of this motion x this mass is going to have a motion y it depended on the k and c. So, somehow if I can have this motion y related to x with certain functions of k and c. So, indirectly if I measure y I can know what the x is and this x is actually the vibration displacement here and this I will put it in a nice housing ok wherein. So, this is actually your sealed unit or casing ok. Now, because this mass is having a motion y I could be putting certain sensing element ok. Now, what could be the sensing element? The sensing element could be as I have told you could be strain gauges because you know because of this motion there will be some strain and the strain will be indirectly responsible get a measure of what is x is. So, this is what initially was this strain gauge type of accelerometers, but now strain gauges need certain power supply you know they need to know resistance they have to be resistance should not change of the temperature. So, there are certain problems with this kind of accelerometers, but then came a material which is known as piezoelectric material. Now, piezoelectric are actually naturally occurring materials if you have not seen piezoelectric material I do not know if you have seen sheets of mica. They look kind of mica sheets and they occur in nature though artificially also we can create them in the laboratory I will come to that later on, but this piezoelectric crystals which are found in nature have a certain property that is given a force or a motion they are going to develop a charge I will I will put a generic motion charge and it is in a particular direction. So, they are they give the highest amount of charge when loaded unloaded in a particular direction. So, that is the most sensitive axis of this piezoelectric crystals. So, they are isotropic they have a directional feature. So, if I go back to this mass here if I put a piezoelectric crystal next to this mass or embedded it in this mass. So, that it is sensitive to the motion in the x direction then as soon as I have an motion x here this piezoelectric crystal here is going to have a motion and it is going to produce a charge. So, because of the feature of the piezoelectric crystal if there is a motion in the horizontal direction it is not going to sense because once I and this is this unit if I put on a structure it may so happen that I am only measuring in x direction, but what if there is a strong motion in the y direction in the z direction is my piezoelectric crystal going to sense it no and that is the advantage of piezoelectric crystal it is very directional. So, the manufacturers find out which is the most sensitive direction of the piezoelectric crystal and they align it in the direction of measurement of the acceleration or the motion because as I was telling you vibration is measured in any direction I need to specify the direction for example, when I have an vibration transducer put on a bearing of a shaft. So, this is the radial direction this is the along the horizontal direction this is the axial and this is the horizontal or this is the vertical. So, if I put an accelerometer on the bearing housing here. So, it is sensing in only the vertical direction if I want to measure in the axial direction I have to rotate it by 90 degree. So, that this is becomes in this direction. So, I have to align the accelerometers along their most sensitive direction. So, coming back to the discussion of piezoelectric crystals. So, piezoelectric crystals are found in nature and which have this property that whenever I give a motion they give a charge. Another very very important feature of the piezoelectric crystal is given an electrical charge they are also going to have a motion and that is what is used in what is known as we are talking about in particularly in control when you talk about smart structures. Just for an example say I have a cantilever beam in its first mode of vibration it will have a mode shape like this. Now, suppose I want to reduce it is it is having a motion suppose I want to reduce this motion here. So, what I what I could do is I could perhaps bond certain piezoelectric material and give an electric charge proportional electrical charge here so that this comes back. So, particularly whenever you know because of motion there are certain uncontrollable flutters. Flutter means an uncontrolled vibration low frequency low amplitude vibrations and I could reduce that by putting a piezoelectric crystals. For example, you know when you have a space shuttle when you have the you know solar panels deployed out of a space shuttle because of motion they will have some amount of motion. So, this motion could be reduced by putting in piezoelectric crystals and giving them proportional charge.  So, this is we are not going to discuss this in the transducer for CBM, but it suffices to say that in accelerometers nowadays we use piezoelectric crystals as the most sensing elements because they can withstand high temperature they do not require an external power supply like in the case of a strain gauge and they can vary small in size and then they could be also put inside. So, for example, if you look at this accelerometer here this is this is the connector wherein we get the signals to we get the charge and which will be amplified and then you know propagated. So, this transducer this is the base and the piezoelectric crystal is already sealed inside this. I will show you another accelerometer this is another accelerometer where this this diameter is about the size of a 50 paisa coin and there is a connector wherein we connect the cable and sometimes the connector is on the top sometimes it could be on this side it depends on the convenience of using it. Now, this is a very very important accelerometers because and this is known as a triaxial accelerometer if you see here it is written x y z and these studs are used to either mount them to the structure where we are measuring the vibration. So, x means the cable connected out of this location is measuring the measuring the motion in the x direction z means it is out of the plane of this presentation here and y is in this direction. So, you can think of it that three piezoelectric crystals having mutually perpendicular orientations have been put together. So, that at one point I can measure the vibration in three directions. So, this is very convenient that I did not put three any axial accelerometers rather at one place I put a triaxial accelerometer and sometimes in short it is known as a triax you know people usually call it as triax. So, the output which comes out of the displacement you will see from the equations of vibration that the y can be actually proportional to x double dot and then we will get a measure of the acceleration of the base to which this transducer is attached. Now, sometimes we need to know what the velocity or what the displacement at that measured point is. If you will recall suppose I will have a motion in general terms x is equal to a sin omega t at any frequency this is the expression for the displacement. So, x dot is the velocity is nothing, but a omega cosine omega t and x double dot the acceleration will be minus a omega square sin omega t. So, if I am measuring the acceleration amplitude I know my a omega square is is nothing, but the acceleration amplitude which has been measured by an accelerometer and if I plot the spectrum from the signal which is obtained out of the acceleration accelerometer amplitude I may get something like this right. So, this is equal to omega by 2 pi. So, such a spectrum you can very easily obtained by doing frequency analysis or Fourier analysis of the vibration signal which you have measured from the transducer. Now, somebody wants well tell me the velocity spectrum of this signal you could do it very easily or the fact that once you divide this by omega you will get the velocity spectrum is not it. And then if you divide it by a omega square by omega square you can get the displacement spectrum. So, this is done electronically once you measure with an accelerometer you measure the acceleration a omega square once you do the Fourier analysis you will get the spectrum all you have to do is at every frequency either you divide it by omega or divide it by omega square. And then you will get the velocity spectrum or displacement spectrum and this. So, this is done as a post processing many vibration meters essentially a vibration meter is nothing, but an accelerometer with its signal conditioning amplifier and a readout is what is an vibration meter. And the vibration meter you will have an option either to see the velocity spectrum displacement spectrum or acceleration spectrum I will show you a typical vibration meter now which is available nowadays. And this vibration meter of course, the reason this is pointed like this is this also has an option that this electronics could be also used as a sound level meter.  So, all the electronics in terms of the signal conditioning is here and on the screen you could see the spectrum of the vibration or the velocity or the displacement you could put a filter. So, that if you say I am only interested to know the vibration at 100 from 100 to 1000 hertz you can very well do that and this will display you the overall vibration level in the meter. But before we had this vibration this is a digital vibration meter which will pretty recent and this we have just acquired in our lab, but then if you go to the earlier days you know we had this analog vibration meter and this is what it looked like. So, this is the accelerometer which I was just talking about this is an in-eaxial accelerometer. So, the piezoelectric crystal is inside this and this can withstand very high temperatures may as well go up to about 200 degree Celsius or 300 degree Celsius. This is shielded from moisture, humidity, rain etcetera and then this cable because as soon as the charge is produced we will put the details of the vibration transducers regarding the mounting etcetera in the subsequent classes, but all it suffices to say a charge is produced and this charge goes into an amplifier wherein the charge is converted to voltage. So, once I have a voltage signal corresponding to the acceleration all I can do in this meter here in this vibration meter there are options whether you want to see the analog displacement, analog velocity because there are analog filtering units. This is not a digital device, but the example or the device I showed you before this is a digital device. So, there is an A to D converter once we have digital we will get the velocity and acceleration very easily just by dividing by omega square and omega, but in those days when the computer data detection was not available people were using electronic integrators or in this case yeah electronic integrators to obtain the displacement and velocity from the measured acceleration and then we had an analog readout. So, this is kind of very obsolete, but this was a very popular equipment of a particular manufacturer. Now, before I conclude my discussions on the vibration measuring transducer which is an accelerometer we will discuss about the details of how the vibration accelerometers have to be mounted on structures and so on later on, but it suffices to say right now is this vibration accelerometers have very good frequency response. This is a typical frequency response curve of a vibration accelerometer and this sensitivity I mean take it back. So, there are two important parameters one is the dynamic range and another is the frequency range because we are talking about two we are talking about dynamic signals. So, the accelerometers have a very very large frequency range and the smaller the accelerometer smaller the accelerometer greater is its frequency range and bigger the accelerometer greater its frequency range and bigger the accelerometer greater is its sensitivity and may be dynamic range. Typically the sensitivity of this accelerometers are may be you know 10 meters per second square per picocooloom. So, this is the acceleration to the or let me put it this way 10 millivolts to picocooloom and this will be converted to picocoolooms to sorry millivolts to meter per second square and then we will another conversion picocoolooms to meter per second square and then finally, we will get millivolts to meter per second square. Typically the frequency the sensitivity ranges of this accelerometers are about 1 to 100 millivolts per meter per second square. Now, question is the piezoelectric crystals produce a charge. So, I cannot store charge for a long time because they will discharge and decay with time. So, a charge to voltage conversion needs to be done and once I have the voltage I can send it through the signal. So, some accelerometers which we just discussed they are the charge type another is the integrated charge type. Here the output from this is a charge here from the output from this is a voltage. Because the charge is the voltage conversion is done inside this. So, there is an additional electronics built into this kind of accelerometers because straight away I am getting a voltage. Now, this additional electronics are basically IC chips. So, because they are inside this element you know which is put in a stainless steel casing I cannot subject this integrated charge type of accelerometers to more than 100 degree Celsius is not allowed. They have to be at a lesser than 100 degree Celsius, but this charge type because the electronics is outside in the vibration meter I can go may be up to 250 degree Celsius. So, this is two things you have to keep in mind particularly when you are doing vibration monitoring of places where the temperatures are high high gear box temperatures or bearing temperatures. We have to use charge type of accelerometers and this integrated charge type of accelerometers or ICP type of accelerometers could be used in room environment when you are doing model testing when you are doing you know in low temperatures you can use this kind of accelerometers, but for high temperatures for rugged industrial accelerometers which you need to always use charge type. So, you have this selection you have to keep in mind when you are using accelerometers. Now, let us talk about another important mechanical parameters this mechanical noise and this is essentially measured with a microphone. So, microphone as I was telling you has a two plates. So, one is the base plate and another is a very thin membrane or a diaphragm. So, this membrane is going to deflect and this gap is going to change and this gap to begin with could be about 0.002 centimeter. So, you can imagine the care they take in manufacturing this piezoelectric this microphones and this microphones could be of many type one is this is what I have drawn here is a condenser microphone. What I am showing here is a piezoelectric microphone the question is they look very similar from the outside and this is a protective cover. So, this is the this this slots here below this slots is the diaphragm actually this is a protective cover and it is always advisable not to remove this protective cover this is possibly the thinnest foil you can ever imagine even if you blow hard you may sometimes damage the membrane. So, this is why it is a very sensitive equipment. So, you have to be very careful and thus this is this protective cover which is advisable not to be open. So, what happens either be it condenser microphone or piezoelectric microphone the only difference is that in the case of a condenser microphone because of the deflection of the membrane here this gap is going to change. So, the capacitance between these two plates is going to change thus I will get a charge which is or voltage which is proportional to the motion of the diaphragm that is what is the condenser microphone. But in a piezoelectric microphone what we have connected to the base plate we have certain piezoelectric crystals. So, because of this motion the piezoelectric crystals will have a deformation and then that is why they will have an output. Now, the difference between condenser microphone piezoelectric microphone is condenser microphones can last forever practically because there are just two metal plates. But the piezoelectric microphones will lose their sensitivity because the piezoelectric crystals could possibly age because they are exposed to the elements. In the case of the sealed accelerometers the piezoelectric crystals will seal forever they are not open to the moisture or air and so on. But here in the case of piezoelectric microphones they are exposed because we have to have an opening for the air to be impinged on the membrane for the industrial deflection. I cannot seal it totally since they are open they will lose with their sensitivity with time. So, they may age. So, if a condenser microphone just if it costs 50,000 rupees a piezoelectric microphone will cost perhaps about 10,000 rupees just give an order of magnitude. And in your high school physics you must have talked about the carbon granule microphones the voice call. So, where there is a because the diaphragm moves there is a movement of the diaphragm. So, the coil will move and then a proportional voltage will come because of the movement of the diaphragm where to which this coil is attached. So, if that microphone costs 100 rupees piezoelectric will cost 10,000 rupees and this will cost 50,000 rupees. So, you can imagine what kind of ranges we are talking about. So, this condenser microphones have very very high dynamic range at the same time very very wide frequency response. They can measure as low as 0.1 hertz to as high as 100 kilo hertz. You know we only hear about 20 kilo hertz, but there are many phenomena the ultrasonic phenomena beyond 20 kilo hertz which can be monitored through such condenser microphones. And again similar to the observations in accelerometers when the diaphragm diameter reduces their natural frequency is high. So, the smaller the diameter and this is about as you can see this is about half an inch here. So, this has a typical frequency range up to about 20 kilo hertz. If I make it smaller I will have accelerometers up to 70 kilo hertz up to 200 kilo hertz because you will be wondering what do I do with 200 kilo hertz because I cannot hear in the sound at 200 kilo hertz that is fine. But there are lot of mechanical phenomenon of phenomena occurring at such high frequencies particularly once you are doing abrasive jet machining, water jet machining etcetera they produce lot of ultrasonic waves and ultrasonic which could be captured by such microphones. Similar to the vibration meter these microphones are also put in a sound level meter. So, this is a sound level meter wherein the microphone is only this part and then we again have a preamplifier and a display unit which will give you the overall sound pressure level in a particular frequency range. And then you have an option of selecting the frequency band and so on and also you have an option of either recording the output ok. So, this is a typical sound level meter. Now, this microphones could be used to measure noise underwater and these are actually known as hydrophones. So, the piezoelectric sensing element is here and this black one is just a protective cover. So, when the water waves or the waves come and impinge on this surface the piezoelectric crystal inside this also gets a motion and this signal is converted and sent to a charge amplifier. You will be wondering why such a long cable because this is about you know 10 meters long cable this could be this could be ordered to even 1000 meters 1000 meters 1 kilometers. You want to measure your noise deep in the ocean you can have a hydrophone just drop in the ocean and then you will have a long cable coming from that and in the air the on this on the ship you could be possibly instrumenting it to an amplifier and then see the output. And such are known as hydrophones you could have an array of hydrophones to sense from which the direction the sound is coming and particularly in ship hulls and submarines in the front there is a lot of such hydrophones which are which actually work as sonars. And this is a very very costly and one has talking about the microphones is the microphones 50,000 rupees this is about 3 lakhs of rupees. So, I am just giving a feel of the price of this equipment and the how sensitive and important these things are. To the hydrophones we also have underwater visual accelerometer again you see a long black cable and this is the accelerometer and which is again this is this end has to be just attached to the structure. And then you take the long cable and then go outside on the air or in the ship or in your lab measure this using an amplifier. So, we just concluded measuring the I mean I am just talking about the vibration and noise measurements. Let me talk about the rotational speed measurements. Two important equipment are used to measure the rotational speed. So, one is the key phasor what essentially you have is you know you see this there is a coil inside it and then one the shaft is rotating of course I do not have a shaft here the shaft is rotating because of the key way these the gap between the key way and this is going to reduce every revolution right. So, then because this gap is reducing you will get a flux. So, you will get a spike this will not give you absolute rpm, but measuring this on a time base you can know what is the inverse of it is what is the rotational speed or this could be used to trigger the occurrence of an event and that is what is the key phasor ok. The next one is the photo tag when of course you do not see the setup here, but this is a device wherein I give an optical out optical light and on the shaft I can put a reflective tape and every rotation this reflective tape is going to come just below the transmitted light. So, it is going to be reflected back again. So, I will get a light pulse back. So, again from the electronics I can measure the distance between the time distance between the transmitted and reflected and know the time taken for one rotation. So, such photo tags the beauty of such photo tags is unlike mechanical tachometers wherein you have to press on to a shaft and because of this such a load the shaft speed could reduce. These are not loading the structure and they have a very fast response time you could measure speeds as high as 50,000 rpm with such photo tags or tachoprobes. Now, another transducer which you used is the hall effect sensor. Now, to measure current we all know that emitters are used, but emitters give us an RMS output, but I am interested to know the current wave form as a function of time and this is given by a hall effect sensor very easily. It happens here is this conductor and all I produce here is a magnetic field. I have a battery source I produce a magnetic field and then there is a current carrying conductor. So, depending on the intensity of the current, depending on this magnetic field this guy is going to generate a voltage from the simple laws of magnet magnetism. And this current is proportional is shown as an output voltage. So, usually the typical sensitivity of such hall effect sensors is about you know 10 millivolts per ampere or about 100 millivolts per ampere. I can increase the sensitivity of this by instead of one cable let me suppose this is the ring and I produce a current carrying and this is a certain magnetic field is going around. To increase the sensitivity or output of this system I could be putting in few more current carrying conductors. So, the output will increase increase and I can always 0 set it. The advantage of this is this has a good frequency response almost from 0 or 0 to 500 hertz you can measure with such a current carrying hall effect sensor which is not possible with ammeter. Now, a typical current supply current is about 50 hertz and this ammeter can measure only up to 50 to 100 hertz. But you will see later on when you talk about motor current signature analysis when you are discussing about how this waveform can be analyzed to find out the mechanical defects. I need to know the waveform whether there is any fluctuations in the waveform etcetera at what frequencies. So, this is where this hall effect sensors are very advantageous and I will get a voltage output corresponding to the current carrying by the carried by the conductors. And another mechanical parameter is the temperatures and temperatures could be measured by thermocouples RTDs pyro meters. Of course, nowadays the thermal imaging cameras are available because there are many devices which will change color which will change color based on the temperature the charge coupled devices and then they will give a voltage output corresponding to the color which are used nowadays in the cameras etcetera. So, these have been if you can focus beam into such cells and then they will give a voltage corresponding to the intensity and the color we can get a indication of the temperature of the target and you all recall the Stefan Boltzmann law the T to the power how it depends on the emissivity and the T to the power 4 the heat flux. So, this is absolute temperature of the body to the power 4 and the surface emissivity and this is been used in thermal imaging cameras and pyro meters, but here I want to show you what we have is a thermocouple essentially a thermocouple in if you will see here thermocouple is nothing but when we have two wires kept at different junction which could be copper, constantan, copper, iron etcetera, copper, nickel. So, many such combinations are there and based on these combinations they have different different temperature ranges. So, such a junction if it is kept at a temperature I will get an emf and this could be another T 1, T 2 are not going to details of this, but suppose if this is at a known temperature I know the voltage, I can look into the calibrations tables and know the temperature, other way there are many ways of looking at it. I can have an electronic compensation because of this reference temperature and then I will get a voltage corresponding the properties and this could be calibrated to display with the temperatures. So, this is just one end because you know you would have studied the thermocouples means I need two end where is the other end. The other end which could be a ice bath or a boiling point bath actually all I need to do is just the reference voltage. So, this could be given electronically and this is what is given in such hand held temperature detectors which is essentially an electronic unit and this is the unit of target or the probe which has actually two ends which could be put to the place where you are going to measure the temperatures. And this is the hand held device nowadays many data loggers are there which will just record this voltage and then you will get a record of the temperature signal. Particularly when you are talking about temperatures around an engine wherein we need to know the inlet temperature the exhaust temperature. So, we can put all around the engines lot of this thermocouple sensors. In fact, nowadays if you look into any modern engine you will see on the display in your car that the temperature of the engine is displayed either it is hot and cold, but the detectors are RTDs or thermocouples ok, but the oil temperature is increasing the water bath coolant temperature is increasing etcetera such thermocouples are built around it. And then nowadays even in engines there are automatic diagnostic modules. So, I will talk about this when you talk about the case studies you know, but such modules always keep a log of the temperature of the important functions or systems in your vehicle engine particularly the exhaust temperatures, the inlet temperatures, the oil temperature, the coolant temperature and so on. And this is automatically logged into the data logger. So, if you and it always overrides and once you go to the service station if there is an abnormality it will record in the data logger. So, nowadays if you take your car to your service station they will hook up a data logger and retrieve the data from the your cars engine and then they will do a diagnostics ok, because they know the past history of your vehicle which is apparently ignorant to we when we drive a car, but nowadays it has become mandatory in the abroad and it has become mandatory in our country also to have a diagnostic modules to be placed on an engine ok, where in particularly now we are not in an engine we are not particularly talking about vibration or noise, but mostly the temperature and pressure and so on. So, temperatures are measured while you are driving it is apparent not obvious to the driver, but these things do happen and it goes stored in a simple memory module in the engine diagnostics module ok. And once you go to the service station he will say sir your thermostat is having a problem you would have no clue how he came to that conclusion, but looking at the diagnostics looking at the past data he can see the abnormality and so on. So, technology has gone so far we do not know about it yet. And this is the infrared temperature detector again which works on the principle of a pyrometers. So, this we give an optical light beam and depending on the reflected intensity back we can know the temperature all you have to do is it is set for a particular emissivity, but there are very much much sophisticated versions of this infrared temperature detector wherein you can choose and select the emissivity you can have an plot or a storage of the temperature automatically over a period of time. And then many a places wherein we physically cannot go to measure the temperature ok. We can aim this at that surface for example in a blast furnace say. So, this blast furnace in the inside they have a refractory lining and then lot of very high operations are going what happens when the blast furnace actually ages some of this refractory linings may weaken may break off. So, if you from the outside if you do a if you if somebody is standing next to the blast furnace and do does a thermal scanning either through a thermal imaging camera or just an infrared temperature detector he will see some spots where in the temperature has suddenly increased because the insulation the refractory insulation thermal insulation has deteriorated we can easily record it. So, because CBM always does not mean of dynamic signals, but these give us some clue as to what could be possibly wrong with the system ok. For example, another place is I have a pump or a motor driving a pump and because of misalignment this coupling is becoming hot. So, from a far off place I could put an image a temperature detector and see the temperature of the coupling, temperature of the bearing etcetera. So, I can do that ok. Another very important equipment is ultrasonic thickness gauge which I had discussed about it. You will see this is the ultrasonic probe which has to be put on to a surface whose thickness or I need to measure. So, you will see here two signals one is the transmitter it will transmit the ultrasonic wave. So, once this wave reflects back is a receiver again by knowing the time difference you will know whether the and because the speed of the ultrasonic wave in the medium is being set here you know how much time it should take for a certain distance to cover. So, because if you are scanning this probe on the surface and if there is a defect here every time this is going to get incident reflected, but once it comes here it is going to get incident and reflected ok. So, in the ultrasonic thickness gauge I need to measure this distance t, t is nothing but or I will put this distance as is nothing but c times the time taken c is the speed in this material t is the time taken. So, in this probe there will be a constant time. So, by knowing this t c is set by you you can know what s is. So, this is the principle behind this ultrasonic thickness gauge and because of being high frequency high frequency waves are always very directional. So, they are directional, but this ultrasonic thickness gauge could be also used to detect crack ultrasonic crack detectors in the vice versa you will see how much time it took. For example, if you are scanning and suddenly you see the time between the crack decreased that means there is a short distance this wave has gone. So, there is a defect impedance mismatch and that is the principle behind ultrasonic crack detectors. So, these are some of the equipment which we are going to use or transducers which are you going to use in CBM and I just gave you a brief about the transducers and we will discuss about them in detail when we go about the specific cases of vibration monitoring, noise monitoring, motor gun monitoring, entity and so on. Thank you.