Technidyne Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 The client is so impressed with our recent SCADA Implementation using DAQ Factory, they rushed-out and bought a 42" flat-screen monitor this morning for the lab display. Yesterday, we noticed an anomaly in the Drive Current/RPM graph of one of the larger mixing tanks. Evaluating the consistently and aggressively changing (rise and fall) of drive current, along with a steady RPM trend made us suspect a mechanical drive train problem (binding) on this tank. Our technicians inspected and noticed this morning that all the oil had leaked out of the gearbox and we were running the transmission dry. This would have gone on for days undetected and probably until catastrophic failure if the graph monitor did not display it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzeoTech Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 Cool! Thanks for the post and pictures. You might consider adding some alarms so you are notified when these sort of events happen. Then you wouldn't even have to look at the graph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technidyne Posted September 14, 2012 Author Share Posted September 14, 2012 Cool! Thanks for the post and pictures. You might consider adding some alarms so you are notified when these sort of events happen. Then you wouldn't even have to look at the graph. That's the next implementation of my system (version 7.00) Actually, I was up at 5.00am today while the household slept, playing with the DF alarm function. Still have not quite got the hang of it, but I think it's coming along slowly .....so expect a few dumb questions next week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technidyne Posted September 15, 2012 Author Share Posted September 15, 2012 Version 7 went well this morning .....we have alarms with bells, whistles and voice-overs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technidyne Posted September 16, 2012 Author Share Posted September 16, 2012 Having a basic problem, I want to play a sound when a button is depressed: I created a Button Component, Mouse-down, Quick Sequence, with the following examples and it does not work. What am I missing? System.Sound.Play (c:\windows\ding.wav) System.Sound.Play (f:\SmartFactory\LogIn.wav) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ledbelly2142 Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 Wow, that looks great! I would like to make my implementations look better. I like the gauge within a gauge in the 2nd photo. Nice. -Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzeoTech Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Try moving that script to a sequence and triggering the sequence from the push button. Also, you need quotes around your file paths. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technidyne Posted September 21, 2012 Author Share Posted September 21, 2012 Wow, that looks great! I would like to make my implementations look better. I like the gauge within a gauge in the 2nd photo. Nice. -Greg I've always been a fan of chronograph type watches and gauges within gauges. Here's a another good example of what can be created just using the stock instruments supplied with DAQ Factory (this is a process viscosity/temperature instrument I am developing, based on the load the agitator experiences with varying solution viscosity) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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