We have taken on the challenge of seamlessly combining diverse off-the-shelf products, often ‘glued’ together with in-house developed and sometimes customized software and hardware products. Each system is carefully designed, integrated and tested to meet the individual wants and needs of each customer, to provide a single, guaranteed system.

Customer driven software product and tool development

Zeefax has been providing Data Acquisition Systems (DAS) and solutions for more than 20 years, and in that time, we have created numerous software tools and products, ranging from the widely used and well specified PowerPAC™ Data Acquisition software, to various data analysis and display tools, open architecture data exchange drivers and advanced mathematical solvers, each one carefully designed and developed to meet the specific needs of individual users and applications.

Zeefax Software Products Summary

PowerPAC™

Highly regarded and widely used data acquisition product, ideal for performing complex plant analysis, including performance, efficiency and emissions indexes.

VibraTool™

Database Management and Data Analysis Tool for use with the VM600 online vibration protection and condition monitoring systems installed by Zeefax.

IMPView™

S-Net Programming, Acquisition and Data translation tool for use with Isolated Measurement Pods and the 35954U S-Net-to-USB interface module.

Drivers

A range of industry standard data translation and interface drivers, including OPC and MODBUS. Custom drivers can be developed to suit other instruments and standards.

Solvers

Zeefax has created advanced mathematical solvers which can be fully customized to suit individual operational needs, including steam tables, statistical functions and trigonometric functions, as well as more complex plant wide performance and efficiency analysis for power stations.

Modern Development Tools and Environments

By using the latest software development environment and adhering to the newest communication and data sharing techniques and specifications, we ensure that plant data is delivered to the right place, in the right format and in good time.

In any system created and installed by Zeefax, good data is the key to making the right operational or maintenance decisions, and therefore data must be made available and displayed in such a way as to be quickly assimilated by the user. Once acquired and validated, data can be displayed on fully customized mimic displays in PowerPAC™ or it can be shared across the organization in industry standard formats, including OPC and MODBUS, and made available for analysis and reporting using standard software tools and sheets.

PowerPAC™ – Power-Packed™ Data Acquisition Software and Solutions

PowerPAC™ is an advanced Data Acquisition and Display software product, designed to meet the exacting requirements expected from modern Data Acquisition systems. The many configurable features and comprehensive on-line analysis capabilities – including general Plant Condition Monitoring, Turbine Performance Monitoring, Balance-of-Plant and Emissions Monitoring – make it ideal for use in Process, Power and Petrochemical plants, but it is equally at home in the laboratory or for specialist research applications.

Modern plant and machine monitoring systems can be complex, and users will often benefit from structured training on their use and on the interpretation of data and results.

At the Zeefax academy, not only do we provide customer specific training on the systems which we design, build and install, but we also can provide more general background training and education.

For customer specific system training, each course is fully customized to suit the actual installation, and will concentrate on the specific hardware and software components which have been used to create it.

We also offer more generic background training in vibration theory, machinery diagnostics techniques and and software use, directed at optimizing the benefits – both operational and financial – which may be derived from installing a machine monitoring or turbine supervisory system, and the resulting implementation of a condition based maintenance program.

Zeefax has gained a world of experience working in the power, process and industrial sectors in the UK, America and around the world, and we are able to share this valuable experience with you.

By forging strategic technical alliances with leading equipment manufacturers from around the globe, we are able to provide a full turn-key design and build service for advanced state-of the-art monitoring systems.

We are also happy to help and advise on a wide range of topics to do with system integration, component selection and assessment, condition monitoring, machinery maintenance strategies, training and long term support programs.

• Machinery Analysis Consultation
• Review and evaluation of acquired data
• Machine Condition Reports and Recommendations
• System Configuration and Reporting
• Probe Calibrating and Setting
• Turbine Supervisory Parameter setting

Probe Calibration, Supply and Repair

• Regular probe calibration and re-calibration is vital to the long term operational success of every system.
• The sensor or transducer is one of the most important parts of any system, and sadly, it is often the part which is neglected in the rush to meet outage dealines and close a unit following overhaul or outage.
• Regular probe calibration, assessment and/or repair will ensure continued fault free operation, not only of the probes themselves, but also of the systems which they feed.
• Bad data in – bad reports out !

Training and Education

Zeefax Academy

• Zeefax provide a range of training and education support services, directed at optimizing the benefits – both operational and financial – which may be derived from any systems provided by us.
• For each installed system, the training is fully customized to suit the actual installation, and will concentrate on the system specific components and software tools.
• We also provide generic background training in basic vibration, machinery diagnostics and software use.