Developing the Test Bench Software for the Technical Inspection of Volumetric Hydraulic Drives

Abstract

Introduction. The article describes the test bench specialized software, developed for technical inspection of domestic and foreign volumetric hydraulic drives in repair enterprises and service centers. The results of bench tests using a hydraulic bench and software are presented. Materials and Methods For the application software development, G graphical programming language of the Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench (Lab- View) programming environment developed by the National Instruments Company has been used. The reliability of the results obtained has been confirmed by a series of bench tests of domestic and foreign volumetric hydraulic drives. Results. There has been developed and implemented new test bench software for the technical inspection of hydraulic drives of different models from domestic and foreign manufacturers in repair plants and service centers. The software is used to capture, process and store data from the sensors during testing, to calculate and output measurement data, to conduct nonlaboratory analysis of the testing process in graphical, textual and video formats, to calibrate sensors, and to store the test results in the electronic library system. The specialized software runs under the Microsoft Windows 7 x86 (32-bit) operating system and is installed on a personal computer of the hydraulic bench data processing unit. The developed software is characterized by the ergonomics of the user interface, the ability to control all the parameters of diagnosing the tested volumetric hydraulic drives. Discussion and Conclusion. Specialized software and the test bench permit high accurate monitoring of all technical condition parameters of the most common domestic and foreign volumetric hydraulic drives in accordance with the requirements of the manufacturers in the repair enterprises and service centers.