We have a Honeywell's TPS system with four GUS stations and serial printers attached to each GUS. All printers are working fine..

I wish to achieve the following functionality..

Say, for five parameters I wish to take routine printouts at the end of every 8 hours & 24 hours... The DCS should automatically send the last eight hours of parameter history to the printer... How can I achieve this functionality... Would request somebody to send a step by step process of achieving this...

thanks and regards
Rahul

 

There are a couple of ways to do that, but an easy way is to use the PV Retrieval option, for data that is in history groups.

-- Group Display setup --

Select the Syst Menu button
Pick Group Edit Display
Pick a group (391-400)
Select Change
Select and type in a title for the group
Enter up to 8 tagids
Select Invoke
(From the group display, you can press the Hourly Avg keyboard button to see the last 8 hours)

-- PV Retrieval --

Select the Syst Menu button again
Pick Process Variable Retrieval
Pick Snapshot Values for 1 minute or Hour Avg
Select Group, and enter the group number configured above
Edit date and time for start and end of data
Select Printer # and Enter
You should get a formatted log of the PVs you set up

Once the group is set up on a station, only the PV Retrieval section needs to be repeated.

- John

 

Thanks... But still it doesn't solve the problem of automatic printout... I wish to achieve a functionality where by at, say, 1400 hours everyday, I'll be able to send a select data (like say ten or twenty parameters' 8 hourly average or 12 hourly avg or 24 hourly avg, etc.) to the printer automatically, without any user intervention...

Is it at all possible with Honeywell TPS??

Thanks and regards
Rahul

 

Printing automatic scheduled logs is done in TPS with a Utility Module node. We are on R5xx LCN revision and have 2 UMs, they are set up to print daily, monthly and event initiated logs.

Utiliy Modules are not supported in R6xx. Instead, logs are created using MS Access with Uniformance PHD addins and visual basic on a server or workstation (Reports and Logs Module).

If you have PHD or PI you can use Excel to gather the data and print it out. A scheduler can start Excel, use VB to refresh the data, then either print or publish the information, then shutdown Excel. You could also leave Excel running and do the scheduling in VB, but Excel will often crash after running for a few days (memory leak, addin or VB problems).

Crystal reports or other 3rd party reporting tools can work, but PHD data has to be set up in Oracle for querying using the PHD2REL function.

- John

 

Rahul,

Consider creating a Free Format Log, which is done from the main menu, pick is below the Picture Editor. You can select the historical values you require.

Once you have that created, it can be scheduled to run at your required intervals.

If you are still having problems, contact me off list and I will discuss this further.

John Beck
Control System Specialist, Retired
[email protected]