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However, these sensors are contact-based, making them less attractive for use in an industrial plant and more prone to breakage. In this paper, condition monitoring based on ultrasound is researched, where non-invasive sensors are used to record the noise originating from different defects of the Machinery Fault Simulator. The acoustic data are recorded using a sparse microphone array in a lab environment. The same array was used to record real spatial noise in a fully operational plant which was later added to the acoustic data containing the different defects with a variety of Signal To Noise ratios. In this paper, we compare the classification results of the noisy acoustic data of only one microphone to the beamformed acoustic data. We do this to investigate how beamforming could improve the classification process in an ultrasound condition-monitoring application in a real industrial plant.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21206803","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,13]],"date-time":"2021-10-13T21:48:39Z","timestamp":1634161719000},"page":"6803","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":21,"title":["Beamforming Applied to Ultrasound Analysis in Detection of Bearing Defects"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5316-8366","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Thomas","family":"Verellen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"FTI-CoSys Lab, University of Antwerp, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium"},{"name":"Flanders Make Strategic Research Centre, 3920 Lommel, Belgium"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8517-3271","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Florian","family":"Verbelen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical Energy, Metals, Mechanical Constructions and Systems, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0858-8032","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kurt","family":"Stockman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical Energy, Metals, Mechanical Constructions and Systems, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4489-466X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jan","family":"Steckel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"FTI-CoSys Lab, University of Antwerp, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium"},{"name":"Flanders Make Strategic Research Centre, 3920 Lommel, Belgium"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"63","DOI":"10.1080\/10910340903586475","article-title":"Condition Monitoring for Indexable Carbide End Mill using Acceleration Data","volume":"14","author":"Milner","year":"2010","journal-title":"Mach. 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