New Product Highlights
The SAMview family of software (includes earlier software products labeled at SAMview, SPCview, FeatureView, and MPMview) has been significantly upgraded in the 3.1 release. Also, this product has been released in forms that will allow upgrade of all systems sold by ST that are PC-based. This includes products that utilize signatureACE® and SAM500 process controllers that have either PROM or Flash memory.
Check out these Added
Features:
SPCview QuickPick
Press Curve Protection
Ramp Up
Part Eject
Connect to PLC
Quickly recall reference signatures from previous job!
Reference Signature and limits are accessible from the "Database" menu selection and the Playback screen. These signatures can be saved as needed. They are different from Master Limits as Reference limits do not get loaded into the SAM. Reference signatures are probably most useful when used as a setup tool - especially in the multi-slide applications.
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The system will create a "Default" tool which will be used as a template. Set up this tool as your company standard and any tool created in the database after that will take on the same characteristics (data collection windows, graph views, control limit parameters…).
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Let
Setup Wizard build your press database!
Setup Wizard provides help when setting up the SAMview system for the first time. If selected, it will create a press, and a first tool, called _DEFAULT. The _DEFAULT tool will keep changes as "preferences" and any tool created from "New" will inherit that profile.
Help track quality issues with isolated reset of faults and Auto log-off
features
Prevent inadvertently walking away from a system with your password still logged on. The Auto Log-off feature will automatically log off the current operator after a selected time period.
| When a crash happens on a press, you want to know about it! If you password-protect the resetting of faults based on the level of severity, you will insure that the proper people see the problem before it gets out of hand. Now you can Password protect the resetting Red, Yellow, and White faults for Signatures, SPC and Die Protection - individually! |
| You can exit and reenter SAMview software during a production run (to do database maintenance, for example) and SAMview will pick up right where it left off. |
| Stroke counts now go up to 42 million! |
| Comment Master Limits! To comment Master limits, hold the
shift-key down while pressing the "DATABASE-Save As Master" menu selection. The
Yellow Entry Field will appear for logging the comment. |
Don’t save unwanted data - only save the
faults you really want to see.
Selectively save the type of faults you want, automatically. Some customers elect not to connect the warning (yellow) faults to the press controls. If this is the case, there is probably no reason to save these yellow faults to disk either. From the SAVE Signature pop-up, you can select which faults get stored to disk for future reference.
Enhanced viewing of
calibration changes, faults - by channel, and support files from the Event Log
Event Log Display: The Event Log display has been enhanced to accommodate printing, backing up and deleting the log file. To Review the Event Log, select "Options Event Log" pull-down menu.
| The system will log faults by channel. For a quick review of faults, view the log file. This might quickly point out a troublesome station in a progressive die. |
| Have you ever accidentally changed the calibration settings - or worse, lost them? Now Calibration changes are logged in the Event Log Summary for reference. |
| New performance for Part
Eject customers. Now Part Eject has an individual shift-register for each channel!
This allows parts to get kicked off the line - from any station - up to 48 strokes
downstream of the press. |
For the SPCview™ customers…
Floating SPC controls
adjust to your process!
Introducing Floating SPC Control Limits - Controls automatically adapt to preset drifts in SPC. If you have an application where there is a drift in the force (which still produces quality parts), SAMview can accommodate that by turning on the drift compensation algorithm. This algorithm will allow a user-defined drift to occur without faulting the system. If the deviation changes too rapidly, normal controls will take over, faulting the press.
| SPCview now supports 16 SPC points per SAM. |
| SPC file size is now 1.2 meg. This makes it easy to transport SPC files on floppy disks. |
| Why save unneeded data? If you are running SPCview and collecting data with a high frequency, you can now turn off the saving of SPC points to disk. |
| SPC overview) now shows color-coded (Yellow, Red, or White) faulting SPC point. |
