A group of engineers doing on-site diagnostics of compressors, turbines, electric motors, and a variety of other industrial machines used to carry an array of heavy, bulky, single-function electronic tools that used individual and incompatible report generating methods. The concept of streamlining their field kits with a cross-platform all-purpose unit that also would consolidate reporting functions led to the creation of the on-site diagnostic data acquisition system.
Now this same group carries their choice of laptop computers (Windows or OS X) with a handful of transducers and they can record data from any electronic signal source, analyze that recorded data and generate reports in a single format.