LMS Introduces Pimento Rev 5.1: From Test to Report in Just 3 Clicks

With Rev 5.1 of Pimento, LMS introduces an innovative sound and vibration analyzer solution that breaks new ground in modal and acoustic testing. Pimento features a new 4 and 8 channel step-in hardware configuration, combined with a comprehensive range of applications, revolutionary LMS PolyMAX modal parameter estimations and a set of pre-configured ISO and ANSI testing procedures. Also brand-new are Pimento’s intuitive 3-click procedure operation and 5-minute procedure definition features, which save significant testing, analysis and reporting time, meaning more time can be spent on value-added engineering activities. In addition, the tight integration with Microsoft Office makes it possible to quickly compile and share reports. Altogether, Pimento represents a complete solution, ideally suited for users who simply want to pull an analyzer off the shelf, switch it on, and start measuring.

To better respond to evolving customer needs, the offering of Pimento Rev 5.1 analyzers has been extended to satisfy the need for low-channel-count systems. Pimento’s new 4 and 8-channel V/ICP hardware configurations currently represent few of the most attractive and most compact step-in packages available on the market, including a 4-channel microphone configuration.

Complementary to its fully interactive engineering and troubleshooting capabilities, Pimento Rev 5.1 releases a highly intuitive user interface, which enables operators to complete a test and analysis assignment in just 3 clicks – Measure, Analyze and Report – providing increased operator efficiency and enhanced data integrity. Pimento is an open system that, in case no standard procedure fulfills all required testing specifications, makes it possible to define a new procedure in less than 5 minutes, without the need for any programming. By default, Pimento Rev 5.1 analyzers include a libraryof pre-configured procedures, of which some are industry-standard ISO or ANSI tests. In addition, LMS regularly extends this library with newly predefined procedures, which can be downloaded from the Pimento website free-of-charge, without requiring a product license or having to wait for a new Pimento software update.

By introducing the unique LMS PolyMAX curve fitter, Pimento Rev 5.1 underlines its leading edge in modal analysis. This integrated modal parameter estimator greatly simplifies the selection of poles, typically the most difficult step in modal analysis, by offering crystal-clear stabilization diagrams. To further improve its application coverage, capability and performance, Pimento introduces new
innovations and enhancements in all application domains of its elaborate range of applications, which includes sound power, sound intensity, sound-source localization, sound absorption, whole-body vibrations and hand-arm vibrations.

Pimento Rev 5.1 tightly integrates with Microsoft Office to obtain higher efficiency in relation to user guidance, reporting and data exchange. All textual and graphics information that guide operators during each step of a testing procedure can be defined using one single Microsoft Word template. The tight integration with Microsoft Excel offers the capability to efficiently set up and customize Pimento reports, on top of the possibility to use Visual Basic report scripting. Excel can also be used to view reports after concluding measurements, allowing employees to perform standard Excel data operations and easily share reports with other concerned colleagues.

LMS is an engineering innovation partner for companies in the automotive, aerospace and other advanced manufacturing industries. LMS enables its customers to get better products faster to market, and to turn superior process efficiency to their strategic competitive advantage. LMS delivers a unique
combination of virtual simulation software, testing systems, and engineering services. We are focused on the mission critical performance attributes in key manufacturing industries, including structural integrity, handling, safety, reliability, comfort and sound quality. Through our technology, people and over 25 years of experience, LMS has become the partner of choice for most of the leading discrete manufacturing companies worldwide. LMS, a Dassault Systèmes Gold Partner, is certified to ISO9001:2000 quality standards and operates through a network of subsidiaries and representatives in key locations around the world.