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FIX32 Training Course.

An introduction to using and developing

FIX32 Software in a real time environment.

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Prepared by A.K.Jones CEW Process Control

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FIX32 SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition)

Table of Contents_____________________________________________________

1. FIX Overview 3

1.1 Capablities of FIX Software 3

1.2 Terminology 4

2 Basic Architecture of FIX 6

3 Development Applications 8

4 iFix versus FIX32 9

5 Varieties and versions of Fix32 10

6 Installing Fix32 11

6.1 Starting FIX 13

7 Developing displays 14

8 SCU (Systems Configuration Utility) 24

8.1 SIM Addresses 24

9 Process Database and DIT 27

10 Historical Trending 33

10.1 Historic Assign 34

10.2 Starting and Configuring Historical Assignment 36

10.3 Historical Collect 38

10.4 Start Historical Collection 39

10.5 Historic Display 40

10.6 Defining Pen Groups 40

11 Creating Pen Time and Chart Group Definitions 46

a. Configuring Pen Groups 46

b. Defining Time Groups 47

c. Define the Chart Group Configuration 48

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1. FIX Overview

1.1 Capablities of FIX Software

Fix is true Client/Server i.e. no replication of dBs is required.

A. Introduction to FIX Software

Industrial Automation Software

Provides a Window into the process

Supplies real-time data to personnel and to software applications

Basic FIX functions are: - Data acquisition

- Data management

A. Data Acquistion

Ability to retrieve data from the plant floor

Direct communication with I/O devices in the plant

Interface to the I/O devices via I/O drivers

B. Data Management

Ability to process and manipulate acquired data

Data management is made up of many components, including: - process monitoring (graphic display) - supervisory control - alarming - reporting - data archiving

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1.2 Terminology

A. Node Types

A computer running FIX is called a node

A node that acquires data from a process is a Scada server SCADA -- (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition)

communicates with process hardware via I/O driver software

loads and maintains the process database

A View Client is one that does not perform SCADA functions this node receives data from SCADA nodes

A View node can run other application software

B. Node Configurations Stand alone node

Any node not communicating with nodes on the network

Fig 1.1 shows a stand-alone SCADA server

Fig 1.2 shows a distributed process

Local node

describes the node being worked on currently

Remote node

On a distributed system, a node other than the local node

May also refer to a node being accessed via a modem

Run-Time node

Does not allow modification of displays or process database

Not necessarily read-only

PlantTV

A read-only View client with DDE and ODBC options

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Fig 1.1: Example of a stand-alone FIX system

Fig 1.2: Example of a distributed FIX System

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2 Basic Architecture of FIX

A. Process Data

FIX is used with the process instrumentation in a plant.

Sensors and controls send data to registers in the process hardware. Typically this hardware is a PLC

Fix software acquires raw data from process hardware.

B. I/O Drivers

The FIX interface to a PLC is called an I/O driver

Each I/O driver is specific to the PLC hardware

I/O driver functions: Read (and write) from the I/O device (called polling)

Transfer data to/from addresses in the Driver Image Table

(DIT)

An I/O driver collects data from poll records poll records are specified by addresses in PLC registers.

a poll record can be a single data point or a range of points.

C. Driver Image Table (DIT)

Area of SCADAs memory where the I/O driver stores poll records

I/O drivers update poll records in the DIT Each poll record has a rate at which updates are processed.

Update rate is called the poll time and is default of 1 second

D. Scan, Alarm and Control (SAC)

SAC functions include: Fetching data from the Driver Image Table (DIT)

Transferring data to the Process database (PDB)

SAC reads from the DIT at a rate called the scan time Default 1 second, minimum of 0.05secs (dont believe it)!

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Fig 1.3: FIX architecture.

Process

Hardware I/O Sensors

PDB

AI CA

AI TR AO

DI DO

Driver Image

Table

DIT

Poll Record

Data:

12 31 18 44 22

19

Scan, Alarm

and Control

I/O Driver

Software

View

(Links)

View

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3 Development Applications

A. Development applications used

The Draw application is the program used to develop pictures.

The View application is used for viewing the pictures

Database Builder is used to add tags to the Process database (PDB)

The System Configurator is used to set options within FIX (referred to as the SCU, pronounced skew)

Startup. (Used to start the Scada application)

Mission Control

Each of these is described in detail later.

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4 iFix versus FIX32

iFix ver 3.5 is the latest product from Ge-Fanuc and is used extensively throughout industry. iFix is different to Fix32 in that it uses VBA instead of the scripting

language as used in Fix32, this makes iFix software a much more powerful tool for

accessing and manipulating not only data and screens, but allows the user to actually

write programs from within the iFix environment. The capabilities of the software are only limited by the user himself and inherent limits of VBA .

The basic components of iFix, are however very similar. The Database builder is the

same (very similar), the SCU is the same. The main differences are the Workspace view and the driver implementation. Alarming is the same.

IFix is in-line with latest technologies and uses objects extensively. It supports embedded externally written ActiveX objects within its own runtime window. This allows for extremely powerful solutions to be developed with the minimum effort and

securely.

For the purpose of this document we are going to concentrate on FIX32 as it is a

sound basis for understanding Fix and Scada applications. Fix32 is still the main

workhorse of the Hot Mill Scada network.

New developments should consider moving to iFix as a solution within the Hot Mill.

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5 Varieties and versions of Fix32

FIX32 Scada Development. The development package gives the user full access to all development

tools to develop a total project up to the number of tags the software

allows.

FIX32 Scada Runtime This is the runtime version of the application as developed above.

FIX32 SuperScada This is FIX32 Scada Development with every available option

supplied.

FIX32 View Client Development This is the development tool for View clients. Effectively only allows a

user to generate/modify pictures. There is no access to the PDB or

DIT. Allows reads/writes to a Scada node

FIX32 View Client Runtime As above this is a runtime version of the View development.

PlantTV This is a Read only version of the View client and does not require a

Dongle. (software key Option Disk required).

Fix Dongles are supplied on the following basis: -

75 Tag.

300 Tag.

Unlimited.

The latest (last) version of Fix32 is version 7.0

Most of the Hot Mill is running Version 6.15, some systems have been upgraded to

version 7.0

You should also be aware of SIMs (Software Improvement Modules). These are effectively service packs for Fix. Most identified problems can be related to a SIM

pack and you should always check the GE_Fanuc website for the latest SIMs. The Help desk for Ge-Fanuc are also a good source of information and help.

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6 Installing Fix32

FIX32 is supplied as standard on CD together with a Dongle.

To install Fix32 7.0 onto a machine you must be a local or domain administrator for the PC you intend to install it on.

Insert CD in CD drive, right mouse button on Icon My Computer on desk top, select explore and go to the Winsetup\install and run SETUP.EXE by double clicking. See Fig 1.3 below.

Fig 1.3 Running SETUP.EXE

After several Splash screens and licence agreements you should have this.

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Select Custom Installthe next screen should show.

Select Fix Support, I/O Drivers and FIX Electronic Books.

You can select the sample system if you wish?

Installation starts as below: -

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When complete, you will be prompted to add any other Scada nodes you wish to

access from this node. You can add all the Hot Mill Systems if you wish. This is only

required if you wish to display pictures off other nodes. This can be demonstrated

later. For the purpose of this Demonstration add the SPRAYS node.

6.1 Starting FIX

Start FIX by double clicking on Startup in main Fix menu. (Note if there is no Dongle installed you will get the DEMO MODE only for 2 hours)

Now we are ready to Develop, well almost!

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7 Developing displays

When you first startup Fix Draw is automatically started for you, this can be changed

later if you want. It should look similar to this

The toolbox is configurable and can be modified from with Tool Box Setup under the Tools option in Draw.

For the purpose of Demonstration we are going to develop a Temperature display that

will consist of a 2 Temperature bar indicators and a Trend display, to trend the 2

values.

Developing a simple screen

Go to File select New and use the Default template. Go to Edit, Picture and change the Background colour to something other than white, remember this is going

to be the background colour of your picture.

From the Toolbox select the Rectangle object and draw/drag it as below -

Tool Box Colour Box

Draw Rectangle

Data Link

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Draw another Rectangle as below

Draw a Line and add some text

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Add the Dynamic properties to the Rectangle by double clicking the temperature bar.

Select Vertical Fill and enter the following details

An alternative method is to use the ? and browse to the required tag. Select OK

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Highlight all the selected area as below and Group the object by CTRL G. Note: - Line limits at 650 min to 900 max.

Move this object into the original Rectangle. Add a Data Link Make this point to

the same Tag as the temperature bar.

Modify the Numeric data for

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Then OK, OK. Finally group the whole object as one by highlighting all and selecting Arrange and Group or CTRL G. As you will find out later there are many ways to carry out the same function.

To view the display, Right mouse button on the screen and select Quickview.

Right mouse and select Quickdraw to go back into edit mode.

Highlight the object and copy it CTRL C and paste it CTRL V, drag it to one side, ungroup it CTRL R and drag out the temperature bar. You will have to do this several times. Double click the temperature bar and re-click the Vertical fill button,

this will display the Tagname and limit box again, go to the ? and re-browse the Sprays node to pick up another Tag, e.g. F7_TEMP. Modify the text to reflect the correct temperature scale. Re-group and move back to display and Group the whole

object again.

Align the 2 temperature objects to the top and group. Add another rectangle and send

it to the back of the temperature object using CTRL B. Centre it and Group.

The display should look similar that below

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Adding a Chart object

Select the Chart object and place the stamper on the screen below the temperature

object

Select the pen options button

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Add the two temperature Tags to this object, use the Add button to put it into the

Penbox

Note the limits have been changed to reflect the working values of the signals.

OK this.

Drag the object and change the objects background and forecolour, modify the axis at

the same time, the display should look like (similar) to this

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Add an Alarm Summary object -

Filter the Object to display the Sprays alarms only, for all priorities and disable the

control border.

OK this.

The display should look like this.

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Add a time and date object to the top of the display, modify colours to show

as below

Save the picture as HMTEMPF7 using File and Save

Add a Button object to the bottom of the display .

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Change the Button Text as below:

Double click the Edit Commands button and enter change it as below:

Use File and Save

Do nothing else at this point.

Your picture should be similar to this:

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8 SCU (Systems Configuration Utility)

From Draw, Apps select System Configuration

From here the Scada can be defined, paths selected, Networking, Alarms, Security

and Startup options are set.

Double click the Node text within the VDU Mimic and change the Node name to be

SCADAx, where x is the number of your station.

I/O/DIT drivers can also be accessed and configured through this route. By default the

SIM driver is embedded as standard.

The SIM driver is capable of generating Ramp, Sine, Random and Digital signals for

Simulating inputs. A list of the SIM addresses are show below

8.1 SIM Addresses

RA Ramps a value from 0 to 100% of the EGU range at a rate controlled by the

RY register. Read only

RB Counts from 0 to 65535 at a rate of twenty counts per second.

Read only

RC Shifts one bit through a 16-bit word at a rate controlled by the RZ register.

Read only

RD Generates a sine wave from 0 to 100% of the EGU range at a rate controlled

by the RY register. Read only

RE Generates a sine wave from 0 to 100% of the EGU range at a rate controlled

by the RY register. The sine wave is delayed 90 degrees relative to the RD

register. Read only

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RF Generates a sine wave from 0 to 100% of the EGU range at a rate controlled

by the RY register. The sine wave is delayed 180 degrees relative to the RD

register. Read only

RG Generates random values between 25% and 75% of the EGU range. Read only

RH Ramps a value from 0 to 100% of the EGU range and then ramps down to 0%

again at a rate controlled by the RJ register. Read only

RI Controls the ramp direction of the value in the RH register. When zero,

register RH ramps down; when one, RH ramps up. The value automatically

changes when RH reaches 0 or 100% of its EGU value.

Numeric Value (0 or 1)

RJ Controls the ramp speed (in cycles per hour) for the value in register RH. The

default value is 60 (1 cycle per minute).

Numeric Value (2 to 3600)

RK Enables or disables the generation of the value in the RH register. Enter zero

to freeze (disable) ramp and a non-zero value to enable it.


RX Enables or disables the generation of values in the other registers. Enter zero

to freeze (disable) all registers and a non-zero value to enable all registers.


RY Controls the speed (in cycles per hour) at which new values are generated for

registers RA, RD, RE, and RF. By default, the RY register is set to 60 (1

cycle per minute).


RZ Controls the speed (in bits per minute) that the register RC changes its value.

By default, the RZ register is set to 180 (3 bit shifts per second).


All SIM registers support Analog Input, Analog Register, Digital Input, and Digital

Register blocks. However, for best performance, use the following blocks with the

following registers:

Analog Input RA, RD, RE, RF, RG, and RH

Analog Output RJ, RY, and RZ

Analog Register RA, RD, RE, RF, RF, RH, RI, RJ, RK, RX, RY, and RZ

Digital Input RB and RC

Digital Register RB, RC, RI, RK, and RX

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NOTE: The RB and RC registers support Digital Register offsets of A_0 to A_15.

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9 Process Database and DIT

The process dB is used to reference Real names to the values that the DIT (Driver Image Table) collects.

The DIT is the driver interface to the outside world. This interface can be serial or

networked. PLC registers are collected with the DIT and are then collected by the

PDB where a real name is attached to the register. An example of this is N251, which

is the Roll Change time in seconds; the PDB record for this is shown below

Actual Tag name is RCSEC

To start Database builder you can do this either from the folder or from Apps, Database Builder. It should look something similar to below

PLC

(N251) DIT

PDB

SAC

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Go to Database and Open the SPRAYS node from the network list and OK this. (note: you should only see the SPRAYS as it was the only node that was added at

install time).

On OK, the dB tags are recovered and copied to your local machine as below

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Note at this point you are working on a local copy on your machine and the on-line

dB is not affected until you either Save or exit the dB Builder where you are prompted

to save your changes. However if you go in and edit a Tag, be aware that you will

take the Tag off Scan. See example below.

This is a snapshot of Database Builder before, (note the Scan Stat is ON)

Double clicking a Tag will open up the Tag display as below

Even if no edit is done to this Tag and you change nothing, OK or Cancel will move this Tag off Scan. This is confirmed with the Display as below

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To put the Tag back on Scan, simply click in the Scan Stat field for the Tag and type ON. This changes the Tag to either ON or PON the PON simply means it is waiting for SAC to complete its scan and update the Tag status. Pressing CTRL R refreshes the database display.

To filter the Tags on the display, use the Query option and select the criteria you wish to filter by. You can also include * as a wildcard selection. An example is to find all occurrences of the string beginning with F7, i.e. any string that starts with F7 and anything after it.

Select Query, Edit Query and change it to the following

Enter OK after the filter has been applied you should end up with the following display

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At this point go to Database and Close the view of the SPRAYS Node. Go to Database and Open up your local node name = SCADAx

To add a Tag; as an example a SIM Tag for Register D i.e. SIM:RD, carry out the

following. Select Blocks, Add, select AR (analog register) and OK. You should see as below

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Modify the record to match as below, it should look like this

Enter OK.

Note that the Scan Stat is OFF this is normal for an Analogue Register! Repeated presss of CTRL R updates the value dynamically on each press.

On exiting Database Builder you will be prompted to Save current Database options before exiting?, enter No, you will be further prompted to Save Changes to Database on Node: SPRAYS again enter No

After closing the SPRAYS dB, open up your own local dB add analogue SIM

registers for RA to RH and Save this to your own dB. If prompted reload the dB, you will be warned that SAC is about to be stopped and prompted to continue or not.

Go to DRAW and develop a screen to display all the Tags as Data Links and

Graphical information.

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10 Historical Trending

In the earlier section whilst developing our first screen, we made use of the real-time

trending object. You will have noticed that each time we went from Draw to View the

chart was restarted each time. In the real world it would also be nice to see what has

happened over a period of a day, week, month. etc. This section discusses historical trending, which is used to obtain a copy of database

values and reserve these values for later viewing.

Historical trending is done in three steps:

Historical Assign (HTA)

Historical Collect (HTC)

Historical Display (HTD)

Historical

Assign

Assignment

File

Historical

Collect

Historical

Collect

Collection

Files

10-1: Components of Historical Trending

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10.1 Historic Assign

a. Used to define the data archiving strategy

Defines the following: Tagnames and fields to be collected

Rates at which the tag is collected

Digital tags that trigger any event driven collection

Duration of the historical files in hours

Number of days that files are to be stored on the hard drive

There can be up to 64 collection groups defined Each group can have up to 80 tags

b. Data File Duration

Allows the user to save historical trend data in 4, 8 or 24 hour files

Files are opened at midnight and at incremental durations after midnight 8 Hour files : at midnight, 8am and 4pm

4 Hour files: at midnight, 4am, 8am, noon, 4pm and 8pm

Examples: 04052500.h04 May 25 2004 from 12:00am to 4:00am 04021908.h08 February 02 004 from 8:00am to 4:00pm

c. Auto Purge

Select to automatically purge data files, if desired

If selected, enter the number of days before data is to be purged - Between 2 and 200

Historical Assign looks like this :

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Going to Group and Add displays the configurator:

d. Collection Groups

Node Name of SCADA Node (Defaults to local node)

All tags in this group are from this node

Rate Collection period for the tags identified in this group

Phase Time offset to automatically distribute the data collection load

User can modify this value

Qualifier Name of a digital tag that defines when collect is on for a group

Collection occurs when digital tag is in a 1 state

Use of this field is optional

Tagname Enter the Tag:Field name of the database value to be collected

Only floating point values (F_*) can be collected

Limit Modifiable dead band limit

Used to establish the minimum change from the previously recorded

value (in EGUs) that will write a new value into the trend data files Provide savings in disk space and improve access times.

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10.2 Starting and Configuring Historical Assignment

The first step in defining the Historical package is to start the Historical Assign

program and modify the configuration settings using the following steps:

1. From Draw select Historical Assign from the Apps menu. The Historical Assign spreadsheet appears.

2. Select 4 Hour data files 3. Click the box to automatically purge old data.

If you do not request to purge old files, you will have to manually delete old

files that you no longer need.

4. Define the number of days you would like to keep on disk by entering a number

in the Days box.

Valid entries are 2 to 200 days.

Define a group of tags to be collected by Historical Collection using the following

steps:

1. Move the cursor to the first groups row and double click the mouse.

The group 1 configuration window appears.

2. Change the Node to SPRAYS and the Rate to 2s

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3. Enter the following tags and filed names: Note these are the Tags you entered

during the dB chapter, on Page 31.

TAG FIELD HTANKTEMP F_CV

COILER_TEMP F_CV

F7_TEMP F_CV

MD_WATER_TEMP F_CV

Note: You may enter this information using the ? or type it into the Tagname Field in the following format:

TAG.FIELD

5. After each Tag.Field combination, click the Add button to add the combination

to the Tagname listing.

6. When you have completed entering the Tag and Filed combinations to be

collected, click on the Save Changes button.

At this point you will be warned:

Ignore this for the purpose of the exercise.

7. Select File from the menu and Exit.

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10.3 Historical Collect

a. Notes

Used to collect the data defined in historical assignment

Must be running to collect data

b. Starting Collection

Historic collect found in Mission control

Can be added to the task configuration in SCU - use HTC.EXE in the task list

Historical collect status window displays the following: - current node time (HH:MM:SS)

- number of collection overruns since collection was started

c. Stopping collection

Use the Stop button in Mission Control

- this stops collection of all groups

When Fix is stopped, Historical collection is automatically shut down

Start Stop

depending on

current state

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10.4 Start Historical Collection

Start the collection procedure by selecting the Historical Collection program using the

following steps:

1. From the FIX Group, start Mission Control.

This dialog box shows you the number of collection overruns that have incurred. If

overruns have occurred, check your collection rate and phasing to see if there are

changes that can be made to avoid this situation.

2. From the HTC section of Mission Control, click Start to start the HTC task. 3. Close mission Control.

HTC is now running in the background.

Note: If any changes are made to a collection group in the Historic Assign program,

you must Stop and re-start the HTC task for the changes to occur, the reson for

this is that HTC only reads the configuration file on program start.

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10.5 Historic Display

Historic Display is a program that allows you to display the results of the stored for

the duration of the period you have defined.

Start the Historic Display program from the FIX Group or from Draw and Apps.

You should see the following:

10.6 Defining Pen Groups

a. Pen groups

Notes: Group of Tagnames selected for Trending

Each pen will be displayed as a line in the display chart

Pen Group components: Pen group name (used to create charts)

Pen for each tagname to be trended

Colour for each pen (usually unique within a pen group)

High and low limits for each pen

Display mode (see below for details)

Y axis details (number of labels, tick marks, grid, etc.)

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Display Mode Used to determine how the data will be displayed

Directly related to the fixed interval in the time group

Sample: last valid value from the interval

High: highest valid value from the interval

Low: lowest valid value from the interval

NOTE: Do NOT use special characters in the pen group name if this data will

be used with FIX DDE Server software

Special characters include spaces, dashes, plus signs, underscores, etc.

Fig 10-6-1 Define Pen Group Dialog box

Fig 10-6-2 Add Pen Group Dialog Box

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b. Time Groups

Notes: defines start date, time and duration for a chart

will be used as the X axis for a chart

Time group components: time group name (used to create charts)

starting date for display enter one of the following: Specific date (MM/DD/YY)

Date in relation to the current date

starting time for display enter one of the following: Specific time (HH:MM:SS)

Time in relation to the current time

length of time for display (DD:HH:MM:SS)

interval between samples displayed (HH:MM:SS)

cannot be less than half the duration

if 0, the interval is determined automatically

X axis details (number of labels, tick marks, grid, etc.)

NOTE: Do NOT use special characters in the time group name if this data will

be used with FIX DDE Server software

Special characters include spaces, dashes, plus signs, underscores, etc.

Fig 10-6-3 Define Time Group Dialog box

Fig 10-6-4 Add Time Group Dialog Box

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c. Chart Groups

Notes: defines the pen group and time group to be displayed

defines legend, colours and headers for a chart

Chart Group components Chart group name (used to open charts)

Pen group name

Time group name

Chart attributes chart details including the following: Chart area colours

Primary or alternative legend

Chart header (see below for details)

Chart Header Used to add descriptive information to the display

Appears at the top of the display chart

There are several things that can be placed in the header:

Chart group name start time of chart

Pen group name start date of chart

Time group name send time of chart

Duration of chart end date of chart

Number of days before today that chart displays

Amount of time before current time that chart displays

There are also up to 10 users defined header items

10-6-5 Add Chart Group Dialog Box

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10-6-7 Chart Details Dialog Box

10-6-6 Chart Details Dialog Box

10-6-8 Historical Display Standard Commands

File Actions Utilities

New Select Region Define Chart Groups

Open Zoom Define Pen Groups

Save Reset to original Define Time Groups

Save As Set to Current Time Define SQL Queries

Print Anchor/Unanchor

Close Link/Unlink Window

Import Lab Data Synchronise Time Cascade

Export

Exit Font!

Options Edit Toolbox Help

Undo Horizontal Grid

Copy Vertical Grid

1 Min Auto Update

Configure 2 Min Auto Update

Chart 5 Min Auto Update

Pen No Legend

Time Primary Legend

Legend Alternate Legend

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10-6-9 Example Display Chart

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11 Creating Pen Time and Chart Group Definitions

The Historic display program displays data based upon chart definitions. The chart

definition includes a Time Group and a Pen group. These group definitions can be

created separately and then used in any combination to create new charts.

a. Configuring Pen Groups

Pen groups define the Y-Axis of a chart. These groups define which data

should be logically displayed together. Create a pen group to display the

collected information using the following steps:

1. From the FIX Group, start HTD by double clicking the Historical Display icon.

The Historical Trend Display appears.

2. From the Utilities menu, select Define Pen groups. The Define Pen Groups display appears.

3. Click the Add button to add a new Group. The Add Pen Group display appears.

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Note: To enter a Pen Line, the node name must be manually entered into the Tagname

field before clicking on the ? to select the Tag and Field names to be used.

4. Enter the following information for this pen group:

Pen Group: SPRAY TEMPS

Tagname: SPRAYS:HTANKTEMP.F_CV

SPRAYS:COILER_TEMP.F_CV

SPRAYS:F7_TEMP.F_CV

SPRAYS:MD_WATER_TEMP.F_CV

5. Make sure you modify the SCU to include the SPRAYS node in you network list.

6. Change the pen line colours using the Pen Colour button and use the Fetch Limits button to automatically define the limit values.

It should look similar to below:

7. When you have entered all the information for this Pen Group, click the Save button.

8. From the Define Pen Groups, click OK button. The Historical Trend Display returns.

b. Defining Time Groups

Time groups define the X-Axis of the Chart. You select the start date, start

time and duration to indicate the amount of information to be pulled from the

Historical files. Define a Time Group to display the Last 8 Hours (or shift)

using the following steps:

1. From the Utilities menu, select Define Time Groups.

The Define Time Groups display appears.

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2. Select Add to add a new Time Group Definition.

The Add Time Group display appears:

3. Enter the following information to create a new time group:

Time Group 8HOURS

Time Before Now 08:00:00

Duration 00:08:00:00

4. When you have completed entering the above information, select Save.

The Define Time Groups dialog box returns.

5. Click the OK button.

The Historical Trend Display returns.

c. Define the Chart Group Configuration

Create a Chart Group and configure the attributes for that chart using the

following steps:

1. From the Utilities menu, select Define Chart Groups.

The Define Chart Group display appears:

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2. Select Add and set the Chart Group MILL TEMPS

Select the Pen Group SPRAYS TEMPS and Time Group as S8Hours and OK this. You should see this:

OK this to go back to the Historical Display main screen.

To check this quickly go to HTD , File and Open select the MILL TEMPS

If all is working you should see the historical display.

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Start up the Draw application and open up the picture you have developed. Go to

Quickview and select the Historic Data button at the bottom of the screen. This is another way of selecting the Historic Display with a defaulted view of the last 8

hours.

To view this from the Picture you drew previously. Close the HTD application and go

to Draw, select the Historic Display button.

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