Welcome to RBTS!


Welcome to the Rotor Bearing Technology and Software (RBTS) home page.

RBTS provides engineering services and software to manufacturers and end users in a diverse range of industries for the analysis of rotating machinery and their associated structural components. Industries served include: aerospace, automotive, medical, mining, petrochemicals, turbo machinery, machine tool, computer disk drives, and fossil/nuclear power production. Our software, Advanced Rotating Machinery Dynamics (ARMD), is recognized as the worldwide leader for rotating system design and analysis.

We invite you to explore our site to find more about RBTS and our ARMD software.


News Items

[Seminar Announcement] RBTS & ARLA Seminar Announcement - October 2008.
RBTS & ARLA Maschinentechnik GmbH are pleased to announce their 5th International Rotor Dynamics Seminar.   This seminar, a 4-day short course on Rotordynamics and Fluid-Film Bearing Technologies, will be held on October 13 - 16, 2008 in Cologne (Koeln), Germany.   Information on the seminar program including registration details are available here.

[Seminar Announcement] 16th Annual Short Course on Rotor Dynamics and Bearings a Great Success!
RBTS is pleased to announce that its 16th Annual Short Course on Rotor Dynamics and Bearings was a great success.   This seminar, a 3-day course on Rotordynamics and Fluid-Film and Rolling Element Bearing Technologies, was held on June 9 - 11, 2008 at Penn State's Great Valley Campus located in Malvern, Pennsylvania USA.   The seminar had participants from a diverse group of internationally-recognized companies.

RBTS releases ARMD V5.6
RBTS is pleased to announce the release of Version V5.6 of its Advanced Rotating Machinery Dynamics (ARMD). Version V5.6 contains enhanced simulation capabilites, as well as numerous enhancements to the user interface and presentation of graphical output.

Download the demonstration version of our Advanced Rotating Machinery Dynamics (ARMD V5.4) software for Windows.


If you have any question about RBTS, please feel free to contact RBTS staff by e-mail or telephone. Our phone number is 610-415-0412.


Last modified: 06-26-08