Profit Embedded PHD : Process Trend User's Guide
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Uniformance 160 Process Trend (Profit Embedded PHD) User's Guide Uniformance 160 Process Trend (Profit Embedded PHD) User's Guide Copyright, Notices, and Trademarks Copyright, Notices, and Trademarks © Honeywell Inc. 1998 – 2001. All Rights Reserved. Release 160 – March 30, 2001 While this information is presented in good faith and believed to be accurate, Honeywell disclaims the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose and makes no express warranties except as may be stated in its written agreement with and for its customers. In no event is Honeywell liable to anyone for any indirect, special or consequential damages. The information and specifications in this document are subject to change without notice. Honeywell, TotalPlant, Uniformance, and Business.FLEX are U.S. registered trademarks of Honeywell Inc. Other brand or product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Release Information Uniformance 160 Revision: 1 Revision Date: April 2001 Document Number: AP20-530PS Honeywell Inc. Industrial Automation and Control Automation College 2500 West Union Hills Drive Phoenix, AZ, 85027 ii • Uniformance Process Trend User Guide Contents Contents Copyright, Notices, and Trademarks ii Release Information ii Contents iii About Process Trend 9 Overview 9 About this Guide 10 Who Should Use this Guide 10 What's in this Guide 10 Conventions Used in this Guide 11 Contact Us 11 Getting Started 13 System Requirements 13 Starting Process Trend 13 Logging into Process Trend 13 Bypassing the PHD Login 14 Saving Your Password 14 Navigating Process Trend 15 Using the Standard Toolbar 15 Using the Time Span Toolbar 16 Using the Menu Bar 17 Understanding File Names 17 Exiting Process Trend 19 Uniformance Process Trend User Guide • iii Contents Customizing Your Workspace 21 Overview 21 Setting Plot Default Options 21 Modifying Toolbars 28 Modifying the Standard Toolbar 28 Saving Custom Toolbars 29 Managing Tags 31 Overview 31 Working with Profit Tag Explorer 31 Working with the Favorite Tags List 37 Building the Favorite Tags List 37 Saving the Favorite Tags List 37 Updating the Favorite Tags List 38 Clearing the Favorite Tags List 39 Getting Data 41 Setting the Data Server 41 Starting a New Plot 42 Adding Tags to Plots 42 Adding Tags Using the Plot Definition Window 43 Creating on Demand Calculation Tags 45 Adding Tags Using Profit Tag Explorer 46 Adding Tags Using the Favorite Tags List 46 Defining Basic Tag Settings 47 Defining Advanced Tag Settings 50 Setting Data Retrieval Options 52 Setting Time Axis Options 53 Setting the Value Axis Options 54 Setting Trend Plot Line Setup Options 56 iv • Uniformance Process Trend User Guide Contents Viewing Tag Definitions 58 Creating Conditional Queries 58 Viewing Conditional Query Results 60 Viewing Plots 61 Overview 61 Setting Plot Characteristics 61 Setting Trace Areas 61 Setting Grids 63 Setting Axis 65 Setting the Hairline Cursor 67 Setting the General Plot Display 68 Setting Fonts 71 Zooming in Plot Areas 72 Using the Zoom Feature 72 Using the Crosshair 73 Using the Hairline Cursor 74 Using the Trace Settings 76 Locking Trace Areas 76 Viewing Data Tables 77 Using the Data Table Menu 77 Setting and Viewing Tags 78 Displaying Tag Descriptors 78 Modifying Plotted Tags 79 Adding Annotations to Plots 80 Creating Annotations 80 Showing Annotations 81 Modifying Annotations 81 Setting and Viewing Time Characteristics 82 Working with Time Lags 82 Uniformance Process Trend User Guide • v Contents Changing Time Spans 82 Using the Time Span Scroll Bar 82 Changing Trend Plot Scales 84 Viewing Multiple Plots 85 Exporting Data 85 Analyzing Plots 87 Overview 87 Setting Analysis Chart Options 87 Setting General Options 88 Setting Retrieval Properties 90 Using Analysis Charts 91 Creating Statistical Charts 91 Creating SPC Charts 96 Creating Regression Analysis Charts 100 Creating Power Spectrum Charts 104 Analysis Chart Algorithms 106 Statistical Charts 106 SPC Charts 108 Regression Analysis Charts 110 Power Spectrum Charts 111 Managing Files 113 Overview 113 Saving Files 113 Saving Files with Passwords 113 Saving the Active Window 114 Opening Saved Files 114 Working with File Suites 116 vi • Uniformance Process Trend User Guide Contents Interfacing to Process Trend 119 Overview 119 VB Setup for Using DDE to Pass Information to Process Trend 119 Calling Options 120 Passing Filenames to Process Trend 120 Passing Tagnames to Process Trend 120 Passing Actions to Process Trend 121 Interfacing to Process Trend via GUS Schematics 121 Frequently Asked Questions 123 Retrieval Requests 123 Retrieval Times 124 Plot Operations 124 Plot Printing 125 Hairline Cursor 125 Glossary 127 Index 135 Uniformance Process Trend User Guide • vii About Process Trend About Process Trend Overview Uniformance Process Trend is a desktop trending and analysis tool you can use to retrieve and view data from an operating plant or plants. Process Trend is tag-based—all information you retrieve and view is based on the tags you select and how you customize them. Process Trend is a multiple document interface (MDI) application, which allows you to view up to eight trends and up to 10 analyses at one time. This enables you to compare trends and analyses across a plant and, by attaching to a remote PHD server, to compare analyses with different plant locations. You can also view traces from more than one plant on the same plot so you can compare performance between different operating locations. Process Trend trends tags on different time windows. For example, you can have a time span of two hours for all tags, however one tag can have a start time of 4:00 p.m. and an end time of 6:00 p.m. while another tag can have a start time of 8:00 p.m. and an end time of 10:00 p.m. This time flexibility enables you to gather data that represents the plant operations over the same time duration, at different periods of the day. Following is an example of a plot trending eight different tags: Uniformance Process Trend User Guide • 9 About Process Trend About this Guide This guide provides instruction on how to use Process Trend basic and advanced features. It also supplements the Process Trend training courses that are available at the Honeywell Automation College. Who Should Use this Guide This guide is intended for engineers who are familiar with plant operations, and have some experience working with and analyzing trends. It is also intended for plant operators working with Process Trend. The users of this guide should be familiar with the following Profit Suite components: Profit Embedded PHD, Profit Controller, Profit Optimizer and Profit Tag Explorer (Tag Explorer for ProfitSuite Embedded PHD). What's in this Guide The following table shows the information in each section of this guide: This section… Contains this information… About Process Trend An overview of Process Trend identifying who should use this guide, and introducing the conventions used throughout the guide. Getting Started The system requirements you must have to work with Process Trend, how to log in to Process Trend, and introduces the software interface and file names. Customizing Your Workspace How to create custom toolbars and set the default option when you start Process Trend. Managing Tags How to work with Tag Explorer and the Favorite Tags list. Getting Data How to start a new Trend and define the tag settings. Viewing Plots How to customize the plot settings and modify a plot to maximize the information displayed. Analyzing Plots How to use the Process Trend analysis charts to obtain information that is relevant to plant operations. Managing Files How to save files and work with file suites. Interfacing to Process Trend How to programmatically interface to Process Trend. Glossary A detailed alphabetical list of Process Trend terminology. Index A detailed alphabetical index of this guide. 10 • Uniformance Process Trend User Guide About Process Trend Conventions Used in this Guide The following typographic and stylistic conventions are used throughout this guide: This… Indicates this… Click To position the mouse over a topic, button, box, or window area and then click the left mouse button. Double-click To position the mouse over a topic, button, box, or window area and then click the left mouse button twice in succession. Shift-click To press the Shift key while clicking items in contiguous order with the left mouse button. Used to select and drag multiple items. Ctrl-click To press the Ctrl key while clicking non-contiguous items with the left mouse button. Right-click To position the mouse over a topic, button, box, or window area and then click the right mouse button. Shift-right-click To press the Shift key while right-clicking. Used to access the shortcut menu when multiple items are selected. Courier Command, or code syntax. Italics A chapter in this guide or another Uniformance document. Times Bold Text you type into a Process Trend box. Arial Bold A button you click or a menu command you select in a Process Trend Window. Contact Us If you have any comments or concerns about this document, please e-mail us at: [email protected]. Ensure that you type Uniformance Documentation in the subject line of your e-mail message. Uniformance Process Trend User Guide • 11 Getting Started Getting Started System Requirements Refer to Uniformance Database System Specification and Technical Data for a detailed description of the Uniformance system requirements. Starting Process Trend You can start Process Trend using several methods, for clarity, we have included only two methods is this guide. To start Process Trend using a desktop shortcut The Login window does not appear if you • If you have created a shortcut icon on your desktop, double-click the Process have set the Process Trend options to Trend shortcut icon.