CHART INDUSTRIES, INC.

SCADA SOFTWARE USER’S MANUAL

FOR SCADA 3.0, 3.1 & 3.2 (REAL CHAMBER MODELS

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 Table of Contents

Chamber Control...................................................................................................................................... 3
Selecting a chamber:...................................................................................................................... 4
Chamber Configuration:................................................................................................................ 4
Viewing data:.................................................................................................................................... 5
Manual Mode Operation: .............................................................................................................. 7
Automatic mode operation: .......................................................................................................... 8
Downloading Profiles (from PC to PLC)................................................................................................. 10
Uploading Profiles (from PLC to PC) ..................................................................................................... 13
Creating Custom Trend Charts................................................................................................................ 16
The Custom Trend Screen ...................................................................................................................... 18
Changing the Trend Chart Background or Grid Color......................................................... 19
Changing the Trace Line Properties ......................................................................................... 19
Changing Custom Trend Chart Title........................................................................................ 20
Changing Custom Trend Chart Scales .................................................................................... 20
Creating/Editing Profiles ........................................................................................................................ 22
Editing an Existing Profile .......................................................................................................... 26
Profile Validation ............................................................................................................................... 26
Collecting Data ...................................................................................................................................... 27
Reviewing Data...................................................................................................................................... 30
Exporting Data ....................................................................................................................................... 33

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Chamber Control

From the System menu, select Chamber Control.

Once the chamber control panel opens, ensure that there are no errors listed in
the status box.

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Status
box

Selecting a chamber:

The box titled “Select Chamber” allows you to switch between multiple
chambers that are connected to the network.

Chamber Configuration:

To configure all chambers connected to the network select “Configuration” from

the “Edit” menu.

A window will appear that shows the current configuration of networked

chambers.

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This window allows modification of the assigned chamber name, the IP address
of the controller, and selection of the chamber model (vibration or thermal only).
The IP address seen here needs to match the address setup in the CTI
controller for proper operation. See the SCADA install manual for instructions
on how to set the CTI controller address.

Viewing data:

The graph in the center shows current chamber data. If the graph is blank,
check the “Comm Status” light in the upper right corner. If this light is red,
check the serial connection from the chamber to the PC.

The graph settings change be changed by clicking the “Graph settings” button
located below the graph itself. The time span setting controls how many
minutes worth of data are shown at any one time (x-axis range). The Update
time changes the number of seconds between graph updates. Chart
recommends a value of 5 seconds to ease computer and communication
resources. Both of these fields can be set by clicking the up/down arrow next
to the value, or by clicking on the value and manually entering a number. You
can set the background color and grid color by clicking on the box showing the
current color and selecting a new one.

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Just to the left of the “Graph settings” button is the “Outputs” button. This
button brings up a window that will show the current heating, cooling, and
vibration output levels.

There is a legend located to the right of the graph. Clicking on any legend entry
opens a menu that allows the user to change color, axis, plot, and line options
for that entry.

Below the legend is a box labeled test name. When a profile is being run this
box shows the name of the file where data is being logged. Data logged from the
chamber is normally found in the “historical data” folder. The file name and

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data logging settings can be changed in the “historical setup” menu. See
“Collecting Data” section below for further details.

Manual Mode Operation:

On the control screen there is a box labeled “Chamber Mode” which shows the
current chamber mode and has a button labeled “Change Mode”. If the box
shows “AUTO”, click the change mode button to go into manual mode. The
manual mode works exactly the same as it does on the touch screen. It allows
you to turn on/off events and change set points.
Click here to
switch to manual
mode

Changing set points:

The set point values are located in the “Present values” box located to the right
of the graph. This box shows the current chamber values and has two boxes
labeled “Temp Setpt” and “Vibration Setpt”. To change the value, click inside
the corresponding box and type in the new value.

To the left of the graph is a drop down box labeled “Control the”. The drop
down box has either “part temp” or “air temp” to choose from. To change
between part temp and air temp click on the box and select desired option.
This determines which thermocouple (part or air) the chamber controls the set
point to.

Controlling events:

The “Event control” box located in the lower right corner of the screen allows
you to turn on/off chamber events.

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 Illuminated
lights
represent
currently
running events

The top three buttons in this box control the heating, cooling, and vibration
events. To turn an event on, first you need to click the green box next to the
event name. Once the green button is illuminated the On/off box at the bottom
will become active for that event. To start the chamber controlling to the
temp/vibe set point found in the “Present values” box, click the “Off” button to
toggle the event on.

The bottom portion of the event control box has buttons to control fans,
nitrogen purge, air purge, and auxiliary events. These events are turned on/off
by clicking the green box next to the event name. When the event is on, the
green box will be illuminated.

Automatic mode operation:

With the chamber mode set to “AUTO” the profile options to the left of the graph
become active.

Running a profile:

Clicking the “Select profile” box shows the current list of profiles that can be
run. Once a profile is selected it will show up in the “Current profile” box to the
left of the graph.

The “Start mode” box shows options for starting the profile.
• On command: starts the profile when the user presses the start button

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 • Delay start: allows the user to delay the start of the profile. When this
option is selected boxes open up below to allow the user to enter the
desired delay time.
• Remote start: allows the user to supply an input that triggers the start of
the profile (see CTI manual for further reference)
• At specified time: allows the user to enter the time which the profile will
begin. When this option is selected boxes open up below to allow the
user to enter the desired start time/date.

Once the desired start mode is set and a profile is selected, the Start button in
the “chamber mode” box will become active. To start the profile, click the start
button. To stop a profile during operation, click the stop button.

The lower left corner of the screen shows profile time data.

• Step time required: shows the length of the current step

• Step time elapsed: shows how long the current step has been running
• Step number: shows which step of the profile is currently running
• Step skip: allows skipping of the current step
• Profile time required: shows the length of the entire profile
• Profile time elapsed: shows how long the current profile has been
running

Profile limits:

The profile limits box allows the user to control maximum and minimum limits
during the profile to ensure safe operation.

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Clicking on the numeric value next to each limit allows the user to type in a
value for that limit. The dropdown box next to the value determines what the
chamber will do if the limit is reached.

• Disable Output: this option turns off the event which caused the alarm
(example: if air temp hi is set to 100C and the temperature reaches
101C, the chamber will turn off the heating event)
• Do Nothing: the profile continues without interruption
• Go to 20C: the chamber controls the temperature to 20C and stops
• Shutdown Chamber: the chamber shuts down

Downloading Profiles (from PC to PLC)

The downloading utility is used to transfer pre-defined test profiles from the PC
to the PLC. These profiles must be saved on the PC in order to download them
into the PLC. There must also be an active Ethernet connection between the PC
and the PLC (standard part of the SCADA package). The following procedure
should be used to download profiles from the PC to the PLC:

1. From the System menu, select Download Profiles.

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2. Verify there are not any error messages in the “Status” window.

Check for
errors here.

3. The screen will show a list of profile names that are currently saved in the
current directory. If the profile name of interest is not shown in the
“Available Profiles” window, then it is not saved in the current directory.

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 All profiles that
are stored in the
current directory
on the PC will
appear in this
window.

4. Identify the profile that is to be downloaded to the PLC.

5. Select the profile by double-clicking on its name.
• Notice that when the profile is selected (by double-clicking its name), the
name will appear in the “Profile Selected” window on the right.

Any profiles
that have
Double-click
been double-
the profile
clicked will
name here.
appear in this
window.

6. Continue selecting profiles by double-clicking names until all profiles that

are to be transferred appear in the “Profiles Selected” window.

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7. If a profile is accidentally selected, it can be removed from the list by double-
clicking the name in the “Profiles Selected” window, just the opposite of how
it was added.
8. When all profiles are selected, click the “Download Selected Profiles” button.

Clicking this button

will download the
profiles “Test” to the
PLC.

9. Watch the “Status” window for update messages. If there are any errors,
they will appear here.
• The downloading process should not take extremely long periods of time
unless many profiles are being downloaded, or the profiles are
exceptionally long. Typically, profiles require just a few seconds per
profile for downloading.
10. A window will appear notifying the user when the download is complete.

Uploading Profiles (from PLC to PC)

The uploading utility can be used to transfer any profiles that are stored in the
PLC’s memory to the PC. Once the profiles are on the PC, they can be edited,
viewed, backed-up for future use, or downloaded to any other chamber. There
must also be an active Ethernet connection between the PC and the PLC. The
following procedure should be used to upload profiles from the PLC to the PC:

1. From the System menu, select Upload Profiles.

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2. Verify there are not any error messages in the “Status” window.

Check for
errors here.

3. The screen will show a list of profile names that are currently saved in the
PLC memory. If the profile name of interest is not shown in the “Available
Profiles” window, then it is not saved in the PLC memory.

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 Profiles currently
saved in the PLC
memory will
appear in this
window.

4. Identify the profile that is to be uploaded to the PC.

5. Select the profile by double-clicking on its name.
• Notice that when the profile is selected (by double-clicking its name), the
name will appear in the “Selected Profiles” window on the right.

Similar to
downloading profiles,
as the profile name
is double-clicked in
this window, the
name will appear in
“Selected Profiles”
window on the right.

6. Continue selecting profiles by double-clicking names until all profiles that

are to be transferred appear in the “Selected Profiles” window.
7. If a profile is accidentally selected, it can be removed from the list by double-
clicking the name in the “Selected Profiles” window.
8. When all profiles are selected, click the “Upload Selected Profiles” button.

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 Left-clicking this
button will upload any
profiles shown in the
“Selected Profiles”
window from the PLC
to the PC.

9. Watch the “Status” window for update messages. If there are any errors,
they will appear here.
• The uploading process should not take extremely long periods of time
unless many profiles are being uploaded, or the profiles are exceptionally
long. Typically, profiles require just a few seconds per profile for
uploading.
10. A window will appear notifying the user when the upload is complete.

Creating Custom Trend Charts

Custom trend charts can be created to develop a trend chart, which shows any
combination of data the user would like to look at simultaneously. This allows
the user to “filter out” data that is not of particular interest for this test, or to
combine various data types (temperature and vibration) in any arrangement.

Use the following procedure to create a custom trend chart:

1. Select Custom Trend from the Trends Menu.

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2. Select the data to be viewed on the chart by clicking the “Select Tags”
button.

Click to configure
the data on the
trend chart.

3. Select the group to modify the data points on.

• The custom trend chart can have up to four groups of data defined at
any one time. This allows the user to quickly look at one group of data
for a particular test, then switch to a different group of data for another
test.
• For example, the groups could be configured such that:
• GROUP 1 is temperature data
• GROUP 2 is all vibration data
• GROUP 3 is three temperatures and two vibration levels
• GROUP 4 is three temperatures and three vibration levels

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 Four groups of
data can be
configured
independently.

4. Select the data that is to be viewed from the list. Double click the name of
the data you want to view in the “Available Tags” window to add that tag to
the currently selected plot group.
• Some of the data available are:
• AirTemp – The temperature as measured by the thermocouple located
in the chamber’s plenum.
• PartTemp – The temperature as measured by the thermocouple
located in the chamber’s workspace.
• TempSetpt – The temperature set point of the chamber. If the
chamber does not currently have a temperature set point, it will plot a
value of zero.
• VibrationLevel – The level of Grms measured by the control
accelerometer.
• VibrationSetpt – The vibration set point of the chamber. If the
chamber does not currently have a vibration set point, it will plot a
value of zero.
5. To remove unwanted tags from a plot group simply double click its name in
the plot group window.
6. When a group is defined, configure the any of the other four groups as
desired by changing the plot group from the “Select Tag Group” dropdown.
7. The groups are saved automatically as they are changed. When complete,
select the plot group you wish to view and hit the Exit button to return to
the custom trend window.

The Custom Trend Screen

The custom trend screen was created to give users the flexibility to look at any
collection of data together in groups, regardless of the data type (temperatures,
vibration levels, set points, etc.). Once all of the data has been configured (see
Creating Custom Trend Charts section for details), the look of the trend chart
can be customized as needed.

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Changing the Trend Chart Background or Grid Color
The main background color or grid color of the trend chart can be changed to
any color. This can be done by the following procedure:

1. Click on the “Graph Settings” button.

Click to define
the chart
settings.

2. Clicking on the colored square representing the current background or grid

color will bring up the color selection window.

Use any of
these the
spectrum to
choose a
color

To select a color move the cursor over the spectrum and click when the desired
color is shown in the lower left corner. A recently used color can also be
selected by clicking it from the “History” list of colors.

Changing the Trace Line Properties

The properties of the individual trace lines can also be changed on the Custom
Trend Chart. This is done by clicking on the line to be changed in the right
hand legend.

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 Digital
reading of
current values

Clicking on the
green line for
AirTemp will
bring up this
menu of
properties that
can be defined for
that trace line.

After clicking on the trace line of interest, a menu of properties that can be
configured will appear. Select the property and define it as needed. Continue
doing this for any and all trace lines to make the chart most appealing.

Changing Custom Trend Chart Title

The Custom Trend Chart can be further customized to make the data appear
just as needed. The title of the chart can be changed by clicking and dragging
over the title to highlight it. Once it’s highlighted, a new name can be typed in.
When the new title is entered, do not hit the enter key! After the new title has
been typed in, click somewhere on the chart to leave the field and have the new
name take place. The title that was entered will become the new default title
automatically.

Changing Custom Trend Chart Scales

The “Y-axis” scale of the Custom Trend Chart can be changed in two different
ways. The first way is to use the auto-scale feature. With auto-scale turned on,
the Y-axis will constantly update itself so that it fully shows all of the data. For
example, if the temperature suddenly goes up to 100°C, the Y-axis will
automatically make its maximum value something larger than 100, maybe 110
or 120 so that the new data can be clearly seen. The auto-scale feature will
work in the same way on the minimum value. The auto-scale feature is turned
on/off from the graph settings window:

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 Check this
box to turn
on Y axis
autoscaling

If the auto-scale feature is not used, the minimum and maximum Y-axis values
can be changed by clicking and dragging over the values on the graph to
highlight them, then typing in a new value.

The X-axis (time) scale can be changed in the graph settings window. This
value represents how many minutes will be shown on the full axis. In the
following picture, the “Time Span” is set to fifteen minutes. The minimum time
data (on the left of the axis) is 9:49, and the maximum time data (on the right of
the axis) is 10:04, which represents fifteen minutes.

The graph update time is also set in the graph settings window. Chart
recommends a value of 5 seconds to ease computer and communication
resources.

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Creating/Editing Profiles
The PC can be used to create new or edit any existing profiles much the same
way as the touch-screen PLC. For details on the operation of various functions,
refer to the manual for the CTI controller. To create a new profile:

1. Select New Profile from the File menu.

2. Start defining the profile by selecting the “Step Type” for the first step. The
list of available step types is shown when the down arrow to the right of the
box is clicked.
• Note that when the first step type is defined, the step numbers one
through five automatically fill in place.
• Note that the next undefined step is automatically defined as an “End”
step.

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3. Continue defining all of the parameters across the row for that step.
• Note that as set points are entered, lines will be drawn on the chart to
visually represent the profile as it is created. This can help the user
notice obvious data entry errors before running the chamber.

Enter all
values as
needed for the
step.

4. Define the state of the Events for that step by clicking the buttons between
ON and OFF.
• Be sure to note the correct step number is being modified. The step
numbers that are shown in the top should match those shown in the
Events section. For example, if step number three is being defined, be
sure the Events being defined are also on the row for Event number
three.

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Define the state of
Events for the
appropriate step
number. Care should
be taken to ensure
the Events are being
defined for the correct
step number.

5. If the chamber was ordered with the additional discrete output relays, they
can be defined for each step. Click the “Slot 5 Outputs” button to access the
additional outputs.

Click this button to

define the additional
discrete outputs.

Define the state of

the additional
outputs. Pay
attention to what When the outputs
step number is are defined, click
being defined! the “Close” button
to return to the
profile definition
page.

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6. Continue by selecting the “Step Type” for the second step.

7. Continue defining steps and Events until the profile is completely defined.
8. If more than five steps are needed, additional steps can be shown by clicking
the down-arrow next to the top step number. Then, select one of the
numbers on the list. The number selected will now becomes the top step
number and the following steps will fill in automatically.
• Note that the step numbers for the Events will update automatically also.
• Note that the step numbers for the “Slot 5 Outputs” will update
automatically also.

9. Save the profile by one of the following methods:

• If it’s the first time the profile is saved, select Save As from the File
menu to give the profile a name.
• If the profile has already been saved, and the profile name is to remain
the same, select Save from the File menu.
• If the profile has been saved previously, but this version is to be saved
under a different name, select Save As from the File menu.

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Editing an Existing Profile
The software can also be used to make modifications to existing profiles. Once
these modifications have been made, the profile can either be saved under the
original name, or saved under a new name. To edit an existing profile:

1. Open the existing profile by selecting Open Profile from the File menu.

2. Select the profile name from the list by double-clicking the name.
• Note that only profiles stored in the directory indicated in the window will
appear in the list. If the profile is stored in another directory navigate to
that directory to open.
• Profiles that were created on the touch-screen of the CTI, and have not been
uploaded to the PC, will not appear in the list.

3. When the profile has been pulled up on the screen, modify any portions of
any steps as needed.
4. Save the profile.
• Saving the profile with the same name will cause the computer to over-
write the original version of the profile.
• If the original version of the profile should still be saved, give the new
version of the profile a new name when saving by using “Save as”.

Profile Validation
While creating the profile, it is possible to do a profile validation check. The
software has certain criteria that it knows must be defined in order for the

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profile to run successfully on the chamber. Doing a validation check will tell
the user if any of these fundamental rules have been broken. The software does
a validation check automatically when the profile is saved, but it is also possible
to do one at any time of the profile creation process by selecting Validate
Profile from the File menu.

If the software detects an error in the profile, it will give the user a message on
the screen describing the error, and inform which step has the error. When
this happens, go to that step and correct the error. When the error has been
corrected, try validating or saving the profile again. If there is another error, the
software will again flash a new message. If the profile passes the validation
check invoked by trying to save the profile, the profile will be saved.

Which step
number had
the error.

Brief
description
of the error.

In the above example, an error was found in step #1 because no dwell time was
entered for a dwell step.

Collecting Data
The software can be used to create data files for future examination. These
data files will be delimited data files that can be opened in any common
spreadsheet application. The following procedure should be used to set up a
data file:

1. Select Historical Setup from the Historical Menu.

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2. Assign a data file test name by clicking in the box and typing a name.
• The data file will be saved as a file with a name, which begins with what
is typed in this box, and ends with a time/date stamp.

Enter a text
name here.

3. Define the time interval (in seconds) between data samples.

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 Define the logging
interval between
data samples by
either clicking on
the scroll arrows, or
entering a number
in the box.

4. Select the data (“tags”) to be logged for this test by double clicking on the
name in the “Select Tags to View” window on the left.
• When the tag has been selected, its name will appear in the “Selected
Tags” window as seen below.

5. If a tag is accidentally selected, it can be removed from the list be double-

clicking its name in the “Selected Tags” window.

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6. Unless this setup is changed, all future tests will log the same data tags at
the same rate, with the same text name for a file name. The data files will
be distinguishable by the time/date stamp in the file name.
7. The data files will be stored in the C:\Program Files\National
Instruments\LabVIEW DSC Run-Time System 7.1\data directory on the
hard drive.

Reviewing Data
Data already stored in the database can be reviewed or exported at any time
through the historical data viewer.
1. Select “Historical Trend Viewer” from the historical menu.

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2. A window containing a list of all the data files will open. From this window
select the set of data you wish to view.

3. A window will open that shows the properties of the saved data. Selected
tags, start time, and stop time is shown in this window.

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4. Click the “Display” tab in the lower left corner of that window to view the
data graphically.

5. Right-clicking on the graph area will bring up a menu containing many

options about the graph.

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 • “Show legend” will open a legend on the right to show the color of
each data channel. Clicking the colored box next to the name will
allow you to change the color of that variable on the plot.
• “Autoscale Y” allows you to turn on/off the autoscaling feature for the
Y-axis.

6. Clicking on the time will bring up a window to set the total amount of time
shown on the plot.

Click here to
open the
date/time range
window

Right click on
the legend to
add/remove
tags, rename, or
change plot
color

Exporting Data
The historical trend viewer allows you to export anywhere from a short segment
of the data to the entire file for use in any spreadsheet program.
1. To export data click the “Export to Text” button. The “View Data Set
Run” button is used to view data that has been logged for a pre-defined
group of tags. Since tags are already selected from the Historical Setup
window this option is unneeded. The “Export to DIAdem” button is used
to export data to the National Instruments DIAdem data analysis
package. This package is not needed with the SCADA software and is
therefore not used.

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Export to
Text button

2. A window is opened to specify the exact data to be exported.

• “Start time” is the desired beginning time of data to be exported.

Clicking the arrow next to the current selection can change this
value.
• “End time” is the desired ending time of data to be exported.
Clicking the arrow next to the current selection can change this
value.
• The “Field Delimiter” dropdown allows you to select how the
output file will be delimited.
• The “Output File” dropdown allows you to set where the file will be
created. Click the folder icon to the right to browse your entire
system.

3. Once the desired data and options are selected simply press the “Start”
button to export the data to the selected file. From there you may open
that piece of data with a spreadsheet program of your choosing.

Export data from manual mode operation:

If the chamber is running in manual mode and you want to export a piece of
data, simply open the historical viewer from the “Historical” menu and open the
most recent set of data. Pressing the red/green stoplight button in the upper
left will switch to live mode. This will show the current chamber data and at
any time you can export this data using the “export to text” button.

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