Trend data on demand

[tmoulder]

Greetings all and Happy New Year!

I'm poking around some more on trending, and I saw again something I would like in this feature.

My current project involves recording the lifespan of a product under test. I'd like to record the processing time of each test cycle, and trend the results on screen.

Unfortunately, trending is strictly time-based, and these tests can be several minutes long, and as the product wears, duration increases. This could be solved with an operand that, when transitioned low to high, would input a data point into the trend. Basically, a "manual record" feature.

Thanks!

TM

[Damian]

Greetings all and Happy New Year!

I'm poking around some more on trending, and I saw again something I would like in this feature.

My current project involves recording the lifespan of a product under test. I'd like to record the processing time of each test cycle, and trend the results on screen.

Unfortunately, trending is strictly time-based, and these tests can be several minutes long, and as the product wears, duration increases. This could be solved with an operand that, when transitioned low to high, would input a data point into the trend. Basically, a "manual record" feature.

Thanks!

TM

Hi TM,

I like that idea as well. As another alternative, maybe they can make the trending axis a variable. That way you could either assign Unitronics system integers to it if you are looking for a time based axis, or you could assign a User integer for this and have complete control over it. Kind of like a "virtual" time axis.

D