Automation Software and Controls Integration
Control of all the test stands function for unattended testing
Features:
- Graphical display of all hardware channels
- Automated control of preset points
- Real time display of calculated variables
- Alarm Annunciation
- Tabular Display
- Test Profiles
- Calibration procedures built in
- Web based display and control
- Event based data acquisition
- Data reporting to database or Excel (Windows™ Suite software)
- Ability to pre-program step functions to next set point to based on system stability
- Process Display
Preferred Software Platforms: LabVIEW™
Data Acquisition
- Including temperature, pressure, current, velocity, strain, displacement, and other physical phenomena.
- Data acquisition through the a PC card based unit, rack system, or PLC
- Hardware platforms: Yokogawa, National Instruments, Fluke, Agilent
- Measurement transducers: RTD’s, Thermocouples, Pressure, Differential pressure, RPM, Voltage, Current, Wattage, Power Factor, Stain Gage, Turbine flow, Coriolis flow meter, Humidity, thermal imaging camera’s, infrared temperature, torque, oil in circulation, and Airflow measurement— ASHRAE nozzles, V-cone, Brandt nozzle, anemomete
Controls
- Control architecture based on Individual PID controllers, Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), and software based
- Choose from numerous modules to control digital, analog, specialty and distributed I/O signals
- Operator Interface options include: Computer, Touch Screen Display, or Ethernet
- Hardware platforms: Allen-Bradley, National Instruments, Watlow, Omron, Siemens, Modicon, Automation Direct, Yokogawa, Honeywell, etc