Products - Software
Our products are used for measurement
of viscosity and temperature in either a laboratory
or process environment. A complete system consists
of up to four pieces, 1) the measurement sensor, 2)
electronics to power and excite the sensor then interpret
and linearize the response, 3) software resident on
your computer for download of datalogs, alarm setup,
graphing, tabular history, etc., and 4) accessories
for interface to process lines, tanks, lab sampling,
temperature control, etc. A sensor with electronics
will run automatically as soon as power is applied,
so the minimum system is a sensor and a circuit card.
The client side software adds functionality and convenience.
Accessories enable easy interface to virtually any
process line configuration and convenience in the
lab for sampling and measurement.
Software
 All
systems include complementary software for computer
display of the data, field calibration, data download,
data log interval settings, etc. Our software will install
and run on virtually any windows-based computer. To
install the software, simply run the setup program provided
with your system or download it from our support/download
section. Of course, the software is formatted for communication
only with the firmware resident on our sensor circuit
card. Data communication between our circuitry and your
computer is accomplished through the computer serial
port. Data display is available in either a tabular
date and time coded format or [single mouse click] with
a very easily interpreted graphical display of the 100
most recent measurements. Data can be easily downloaded
into a spread sheet for further analysis. Our circuitry
automatically logs the 1,000 most recent events, whether
the computer is connected or not.
 High
and low alarm bands are easily set and are displayed
with a unique color coded format. You can tell from
across the room, simply by color display, if your data
is inside your alarm bands, near an alarm state, or
in alarm exceedance. For example, in the illustration
below data was recorded each minute. At about 4:15 the
tank heater was turned off. The temperature drifted
down and the viscosity drifted up. The viscosity alarm
exceedance is indicated by the red data in the tabular
display and by the graph entering the red area. Temperature
exceedance was indicated by the dark blue data. Cautionary
levels were indicated by amber and light blue data respectively.
The heater was turned back on at 4:25 resulting in a
restoration of the set point values and a return of
the alarm state to normal [green data]. |
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