September 14, 2007: PdM 2007 — Was it a good show? Yes it was a good show.

What did people say about the VSA-2215? Well, a lot of them just stood there speechless when we demonstrated it. When they regained their ability to speak, they said every possible variation of, "that is SLICK!" They told us that the VSA-2215 would save time, increase efficiency, reduce training requirements, and help allow facilities that have never been able to afford to use vibration analysis, to use it for the first time. Many said, "I want one!" Are we happy? You bet.

I promised you some pictures:

Here is OJ, our man in Nebraska, doing a demo while Maggie does another demo in the background on the right. Out of the picture, Derek Norfield is doing yet another demo.

Here are Rosemary and Maggie in a RARE quiet moment at the booth. This quiet moment lasted about a minute until more people came by. (Yes, we gave away an iPod. Some of our customers have compared our products to the famous music player, because both are small, extremely capable, and very easy to use. We haven't made the comparison ourselves, at least partly because some lawyers in Cupertino, California probably wouldn't like us to. But we can't stop our customers from telling it as they see it.)

Derek, on the left, looks on as Mike does a demo. And OJ, in his civilian clothes, does another demo. We had a laptop in our booth set up with a WiFi connection. We'd take a vibration read on the VSA-2215, inspect it on the handheld, and then email the measurement from the VSA-2215 to the laptop and show it there. According to visitors to the booth, it boiled down to two basic situations where the SiteConnex VSA-2215 is indispensable: times when the person in the field isn't sure of what he's looking at and needs help; and times when the person in the field knows EXACTLY what he's looking at and needs to show someone with the authority to make a decision. There are lots of variations of both of these scenarios.

September 12, 2007: The wraps are off! The SiteConnex™ VSA™-2215 (our most closely guarded secret ever) is now public. What a response! Our booth was literally swamped for the entire opening Expo session of the 2007 Predictive Maintenance Technology Conference. Matter of fact, people were still crowding our booth thirty minutes after the Expo officially closed for the day. They would come, see a demonstration and then go out into the crowd and bring people back to see it in action. The demos are very cool: we capture a vibration spectrum from an electric drill and then email it to a laptop at our booth.

We'll put up some photos tomorrow. (We were all too busy to take any today!)

September 10, 2007: It'll be a big day tomorrow at the the PdM Conference in Las Vegas. We'll fill you in over the next few days.

Meanwhile, back at the office, we're moving to bigger quarters. Exciting times at Datastick