Originally Posted by
RVDT
Rumour is I think John Beach from Microvib used to work for Chadwick and I think fell out with them over the direction they were taking at one point.
FYI: John and several other engineers left Chadwick about the time Honeywell bought them mainly for HUMS system development. John and another guy started Microvib and another guy, Norm I think, developed a proprietary program that would take RADS data and make magic things happen with 412 and 407 blades. He even worked a lot with NASCAR on the vibration side. We used Norm a lot at the old day job and it was how I first heard of John and Microvib back in 02 or 03. While I wasn't a fan of the Micro interface back then it was the lack of support at the time that pushed me to an ACES system. Hopefully John fixed the support side and I'm sure Micro has matured into a decent product given the history of the developers.