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1. If in the X Trend for instance a recently downloaded measurement occurs the user can decide if also the alarm s update must be done when downloading procedure is finished In any transfer window a checking box is placed into its lower side The Manual Entry transfer window is presented below x Sunday December 23 2007 16 14 00 12 23 2007 ET DemoPro fern hy i De partmen t H er i Machine 1 A ie Point 1 i ee ella Vertical EETA ell Horizontal ET iy Asjal EOI Point 4 ree Point 3 acre Point 2 ee aj Machine H ees a Machine 3 paren a Machine 4 EO ih Department tt PEE Pih Dan sartrmank H4 kd Select a manual entry point Update alarms box is checked as default When the Exit button is pressed an automatic alarm updating will begin NOTE If any user in the network performs an alarm update procedure all the other users will be informed about this The manual Update Alarms button will change the status to inactive 25 X Trend Manual 5 9 Machine exchange This command can be used to transfer the machine definition and data from one database to another Both databases must be registered under X Trend program In the destination database must exist at least one department The machines can t be transferred in an empty database To transfer a collection of machines just follow the next steps Machine exchange Choose the Trend source database Choose the
2. Alarm settings Overall alarms Unit v 50 10816 RMS Warning I 6 50 mmis RMS Danger 11 00 mmis RMS Bearing condition alarms Warning M 1 00 BC Value Danger E 2 00 Apply these alarm settings for all machine Envelope alarms directions Warning 0 00 Paste Danger m 0 00 button Save button C Je a Department 1 Machine 11 Point 1Wertical On the direction level only for vibration points you can edit the alarm limit for overall measurements and also to define the Route settings Click Alarm settings button and you can edit two alarm levels for each total vibration BC value or envelope Two tables ISO 10816 diagram and Bearing Condition Coefficient diagram is available to select proper values for alarms The alarms can be set in e Displacement units microns or mils e Velocity units mm sec or inch s e Acceleration units g For bearing condition BC the unit is always gBC and for envelope measurements is gE Using Copy button you can copy all the alarm settings from one direction and with the Paste button you can paste that settings to any other direction The Trend plot will show the data in alarm setting units only 16 X Trend Manual E Route settings Spectrum Max spectrum Freq B200 Hz Bearing Condition Collect bearing condition Ww BC high pass Filter 500 Hz Envelope Save Paste Collect envelope ice button Copy butto
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4. Editing machine in batch 223 DemoFro fly Department 1 pa Machine 1 ge Machine 2 Sj Machine 3 coef Machine 4 hy Department 2 hy Department 3 hy Department 4 Ty Sample plant keee ihi Machine 1 Beg Machine 2 fej Machine H3 of A B Machine H4 2A Pe Newt achine Copy Ea Paste fi Add Delete Fename Shay Copy as template Copy from template If there is more than one identical machine in your database edit only one machine then copy and paste this machine several times Before copying the new machine must exist only as name the machine hierarchy can be empty Note If on the Direction level are already stored some measurements you can declare for each direction one of them as Baseline or Reference To do these just double click on that measurement Only one measurement can be Baseline All the other measurements are Normal measurements You can save a new created machine into a template database or use the template database to copy a predefined machine in your database IMO 01 1 Pump Machine 1 Drive belt fan amp motor Remove Description In the window above you can Rename a machine name description and machine picture Remove a machine from the Template file Export a machine into another Template file the file can be created if it doesn t exist Import a machine form any Template file the file must exist 19 X Trend Manual 5 5 Route edit 1 Why using
5. Trend destination database Dera E MyDataBase Server service name MS Acces Select the Server service name MS Accef o Server type MS Access source database Server type MS Access Database name AD emo D Database name MyDatab ase hy Department 1 fl Machine HIS gj Machine 2 N Bj Machine 3 Bag Machine 4 ih Department 2 hy Department 3 iy Department 4 Copy options I Including measurements z Only reference measurement f Include alzo notes 1 Select the Source database 2 Select the Destination database 3 Select a machine from the Source database 4 Check the Copy options 5 Select a department from the Destination database 6 Press Transfer button do confirm transfer 7 Repeat steps from 3 to 6 to transfer all the desired machines 8 Press Save button and wait until all machines are saved into the Destination database or press Cancel to abort 9 Press OK to finish the transfer session Using Exchange Machine command you can create a single database using the machine stored in several databases 26 X Trend Manual 5 10 Maintenance From time to time run Maintenance command to optimize your database s dimensions You can select two ways to delete the old measurements by date by number of measurements Delete old measurement f Delete all measurements older than 17 October 2009 17 10 2009 W Delete associated notes Delete all measurement
6. from the registered database list Use Database gt Change command to do this Peal fo ah CMe ee Change active database X Trendname Datsberame Server name EES Dema Program Files MS Access FE TEST C Program FilesiX MS Access ee wf My Database C Program Filesi MS Access Cancel Ok 2 Press Change or double click on the item 3 Press OK to finish 10 X Trend Manual Double click the item in the list or select it with a click into the database than press Change button To confirm press OK button The name of the selected file will appear in the status bar MyDataBase C Program Files TrendiDataiMyDatabase sp 5 4 Database Edit Use Database gt Edit command to edit a database To do this select this command from the main menu or press the dedicated button from the toolbar This command is used to edit the active database add delete rename items and for database maintenance In accordance with the selected item from the hierarchy tree you can add machine point or direction 5 4 1 Database Level On the Database level you can only add Departments or plants Database edit MuD stab ase hy SarmplePlant FY hi Hewhkachinetl aus thal NewMachinett2 MyDatab ase be New achinets be New achinet4 5 4 2 Department Level On the Department level you can add Machines and you can also delete or rename departments Database edit z MMuD atab ase K
7. just double click on that ones and they will be removed on the list Finally press Show button and the entire list will be shown After you display some trends the main window remains active and you can select other trends Although a large number of information is available on a single screen it is recommended to limit the number of simultaneously opened plots because the plots will have too small sizes and many details will be lost For details regarding an efficient way of using the trends plot see also Trend plot Trend plots may be displayed also with Show trends from the whole machine and Quick view Try also these commands to see the differences but first read their associated information X Trend Manual 5 Creating registering and editing databases To make a functional program every user has to create and edit its own database Database menu consists of the following functions Edit el Edit Edit the active database add rename or delete Also allows deleting of the fh change old measurements ot Registration Create Change The active database can be changed Route edit EF Filter edit Registration Allows the registration of an existing X Trend database a Update alarm status Z Create G4 Machine exchange Create a new X Trend database A Maintenance Route edit hl Exit Edit a route for an X Trend database Filter edit Edit a Filter for an X Trend database Machine exchange Allows machin
8. ID 123 The relational database sends back only the names and description of the selected machine not all the information about all machines e Hardware costs can be minimized Because the data is not stored on each client clients do not have to dedicate disk space to store data The clients do not need the processing capacity either to manage data locally and the server does not need to dedicate processing power to displaying data X Trend Manual The server can be configured to optimize the disk I O capacities needed to retrieve data and clients can be configured to optimize the formatting and displaying of data retrieved from the server The server can be stored in a relatively secure location and equipped with devices such as an Uninterruptible Power Supply UPS which is more economical than fully protecting each client e Maintenance tasks such as back up and restoring data are simplified because they can focus on the central server In large client server systems many users may be connected to a Server installation at the same time The Server has full protection for these environments with safeguards that prevent problems such as having multiple users trying to update the same piece of data at the same time The Server also allocates the available resources effectively such as memory network bandwidth and disk I O among the multiple users Server applications can run on the same computer as Server The application connects
9. You can remove the whole Department as well To do this select it from the route tree and press the Remove button From an existing route you can exclude vibration Direction Temperature or Speed using Exclude button Exclude Into a route you can arrange the items using Arrange buttons To do this first press CTRL key on the computer keyboard and then click on Up Down arrows TH Edit Route Route list Database structure Route structure z Mul atab ase IF Henr aE Rode eres hg SamplePlant The Te Route Pole ee hy DepartamentH1 a Newkoute ee Thy SamplePlant SES Lh NewhachineH1 a d Temperature ee f r Speed l EN hi Newh achined3 ee bo Newh achinedte ea ba Newb achineH Machines Points Directions Exclude Add 21 X Trend Manual 5 6 Filter edit 1 Why using a Filter When using a large X Viber machine database you ll find difficult to access a certain machine point or direction That s why the user can apply a filter condition to the machine database to reduce the items A filter is in fact a collection of some machines points and directions defined as a route Many filters can be created from a machine database This filter is also called Route 2 How to build a Filter Any number of filters can be built using the Edit Filter command in the Database menu Activate this command and the Filter Editor will be activated P
10. button in the X Trend status bar Filter name wal Demo No Filter iA Sample route Foute In both cases the Filter Setting window will appear As default the whole machine database is selected Now you can put a filter onto the database selecting any previously defined route The filter will be now active for all X Trend commands excepting the Database Edit command and of course for the Edit route command The machines not included in the selected route wont be visible any more To remove an existing filter execute again the Filter Setting command and select the first item whole database 9 2 Template When you copy a complete edited machine from the template database you will want to change its name and maybe description This command allows you to make changes and to remove from the template database some machines All the templates are located in the TEMPLATE TPL file placed in application directory You can copy this database and distribute it for other users Template name Description New achineH1 Drive belt fan amp motor Template machines You can also import machines from other Template file or to export machines to an Remove i l external Template Rename file Description Export During export you can create as much as Template files you need All Template files will have the extension tp2 Import 47 X Trend Manual 9 3 Optional settings With
11. can press the Show button to see the Filter content The Filter Edit window must be open Press Change button to activate the filter You can do the same from the X Trend Status bar Just click the Filter icon if Ho Fitter If a filter is active the filter name will appear in the Status Bar also SAMS Access Vf Fitter New Route In order to cancel the filtering just select the whole database as a filter NOTE When a machine is excluded while filtering a database it is not visible in the database tree Quick iew In this example MyDataBase tree will appear as MyDataBase WewRoute follows Only SamplePlant is visible because the filter oo abel NewMachined3 includes only this plant eb NewMachined4 elbil MewMachinedt2 After the database name the filter name is shown as well 23 X Trend Manual 5 7 Update alarm status If this option is checked after exiting the transfer window the Alarm Status of all measurements in the database will be automatically updated If the same alarm status has been previously updated the following message appears on the screen RA ji LD There are no changes in the alarm status Update of alarm status isn t required OK You can get the same result when you select the Update alarm status command in the Database menu or when you click the Manual Alarm Update button on the Toolbar When the machine
12. e sv eet Add Delete Rename H ewhd achine hi New achinet2 MoD atab azet amplePlant hi Hewbachne 3 hi Hewbachne g 11 X Trend Manual 5 4 3 Machine Level On the Machine level you can add Points You can delete or rename the selected machine You can also view the structure of the database Database edit 223 MyDD atab age y SarmplePlant C Lie ia al eT NewMachinet bie NewMachineH2 dd Delete Rename f TE My Data ases S amplePlant N ewhd achine 1 ewbl achine iw Enter new name for NewPoint x The following point types can be added e Vibration point e Temperature point e Speed point e Manual entry point f Vibration measurements Temperature measurement Only vibration points have Directions CC Speed measurement C Manual entry paint Cancel 5 4 4 Point Level On the Point level you can add a Direction You can delete or rename the selected direction You can view also database s structure Database edit B WoD atab ace ky SamplePlant bea New achinettt amp Pe elete vr or ename z P3 Pa MyDD atabase S amplePlant W ewh achineH SF hi Hewbachnet3 hi Hewbachnet4 hi Hewbachnet 12 X Trend Manual 5 4 5 Direction Level On the Direction level you can delete or rename the selected direction Also you can view the Trend plot if any Database edit zz MylDatab ase ky
13. selected trends 7 2 Show trends from the whole machine 7 3 Quik view 8 X Trend Reports 8 1 Job Report 8 2 Machine History Report 8 3 Machine Description 8 4 Transfer Report 8 5 Unmeasured Machine Report 8 6 Printer setup 9 Settings 9 1Set filter 9 2 Template 9 3 Optional settings 10 Help 10 1 Tip of the day 10 2 Check for updates now 10 3 Activation code list 11 X Trend translation Ooonooonu rRP BWWWWW D PDP X Trend Manual 1 Installing the software This product has been developed to work on any properly configured version of Microsoft Windows XP 2000 2003 98 ME NT4 or VISTA operating systems or higher Before you run the setup file make sure that you close all other programs This includes anti virus software and any other programs that are running If you do not follow this procedure it may interfere with the normal setup procedure 1 1 From CD ROM To start installing the software onto your computer you have to make sure that the CD ROM is put into the CD ROM player Because of the Auto run functionality the installation program will start automatically If this does not happen go to My Computer and double click the CD ROM icon Next double click the installer and follow the instructions displayed on screen X TREND Installation CD X TREND Is a true F 1 proactive maintenance install XTREND P OE cere m Tale machinery Press Install X Trend label and follow the instructions displayed on scree
14. the header to 1 1 scale depending on your printer settings In a very similar manner you can customize the body Press Body Finally press Print button and the Report Preview window will be activated See Report Preview more details 43 X Trend Manual Design Body File Edit Insert Format eh Gare B Sls Arial 10 2 Mote Note content MOat Notepad date k Paper size Letter 8 1 2 x 11 in 8 3 Machine Description The Machine Description report contains in the body the description of the selected machine First select the desired machine Machine Description Report de Eg Demo Ty Department 1 ih Department 2 Department 3 iy Department 4 Now if you use the software for the first time you must customize the header of this report To edit the header press the Header button A specific window will appear In the pop up menu activated with a right click on the mouse you have some reserved words all included in square brackets These words will be replaced in the final report according to the actual content of the database You can preview a sample of the header just pressing the Print button from the Toolbar The last content of the header will be automatically saved for the next time If you want to have more than one type of header you will have to save the content into a file In this way you can customize how many header types you want Next time you can restore from t
15. to search Search From I august 2009 01 08 2009 Departments Latest measurement Department 1 Machine 4 23 iun Department 2 Machine 1 3 iun Machine 2 23 iun august 2009 Machine 3 Machine 4 Department 3 Machine 1 Machine 2 23 iur 3 dn i i i Machine 3 23 iun 16 lf 18 19 20 1 zz Machine 4 23 iun 23 24 25 5 27 gt G 20 Department 4 Machine 1 Z3 IUN 30 31 Machine 2 23 iun F Today 08 01 2010 Machine 3 23 iun Machine 4 23 jun 04 search NS machines found Cancel 3 Press Print button 2 Press Search button Using the information provided by this report you can create a route with the unmeasured machines and you can load this route into the Instrument for data collection 45 X Trend Manual 8 6 Printer setup This command is used to configure the printer This is the way to select a proper printer for your reports amp Print General Select Printer Add Printer See Microsoft Office Doc Status Offline Location Comment Page Range Al C Selection Curent Page Pages 46 Printtofile Preferences Find Printer Number of copies li PERLE Coca X Trend Manual 9 Settings 9 1 Set filter To activate a filter in the active database you have two choices To execute Set filter command in the Settings menu Simply push Filter
16. to the Server using Windows Inter process Communications IPC components such as shared memory instead of a network This allows the Server to be used on a small system where an application needs to store its data locally 2 1 2 Desktop Database Systems While Database Server works effectively as a server it can also be used in applications that need stand alone databases stored locally on the client The Server can configure itself dynamically to run efficiently with the resources available on a client without the need to dedicate a database administrator to each client When clients use local Database Server one copy of the Database Server engine runs on the client and manages all the databases X Trend connects to the database engine in much the same way they connect across the network to a database engine running on a remote server 3 Database architecture The Database Server data are stored in databases The data in a database are organized into the logical components visible to users When using a database you work primarily with the logical components such as tables views procedures and users The physical implementation of files is largely transparent Typically only the database administrator needs to work with the physical implementation Each Database Server installation has multiple databases Some organizations have only one user database containing all the data for their organization Some organizations have differe
17. tree is shown the item icons are colored according to the current alarms levels This is true only if the latest alarms were recently updated The last alarm update time can be seen looking on the right hand of the Manual Alarm Update button den 17 november 2008 in the Main Menu toolbar den 17 november 2008 Sly den 17 november 2006 i 13 17 39 13 17 39 13 17 39 Last update of Alarm status There is no change in the alarm status Un Update of the Alarm status is required In the text box on the Toolbar you can always see the alarm update status If the text box is pressed middle picture the alarms are shown correctly no update is required If the text box isn t pressed right picture the alarms need to be manually refreshed Because the machine databases can be simultaneously accessed onto many computers in a network it might be possible that the user has no idea about the real alarm status in the database tree This nearby sketch is a typical accessing diagram for machine data base into a X Trem network First instance Any of the above users can make some changes in the se Trent machine database adding Second instance new measurements Third party software Now you can see how the SATEN user can set the X Trend to Third instance know anytime about the changes in the alarm status and also how the alarms update can be done 24 X Trend Manual 5 8 Semiautomatic alarm update
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19. with CTRL V Grid The grid of the trend can be shown or hidden using this action Show machine description Selecting this action the text file associated with the machine will be shown 36 X Trend Manual Show machine picture If you select this action the machine picture will be shown in a separate window Alarm limits You can make the alarm limits for the selected trend visible with this action Same cursor This action enables or disables the linking between the cursors for the other trend plots If a large number of trend plots are displayed it is better not to synchronize the cursors Use same amplitude scale for all This command adjusts the gain for all trends in accordance with the active trend gain depending on the link level Link to You can synchronize trend cursors and make the same gain for all the trend plots depending on the link level global for all active trends machine or point level Color selection You can customize the colors for e Main cursor Axis background alten e Axis text s enda Axis background e Trend overall line Axis text e Trend bearing line Trend grid e Trend background Trend Overall line Trend Bearing line Trend background set default System colors You can save these new colors using Save command You can restore the default colors using Set Default command Report Using this command a trend report will be generated After
20. 00 00 51 00 00 57 00 01 03 00 01 09 z SS Demo C Program FilesiXTrendiDataXDemo sp3 FRMS Access Y No Filter 14 24 07 01 2010 iy start amp Hi tiano zirko AD trend I untitled Pant gt en 14 2 All three windows are synchronized If you move the cursor in the database tree all other windows will be refreshed If you change the position of the cursor in the Trend plot the Notepad editor content will be changed In this way you can immediately see all the information you need for the whole database You can change the position of the windows in the screen but you can t close the plot windows If you close the tree window all the windows will also be closed The last positions of the windows will be saved Use Arrange Quick View command from the Windows menu to rearrange the window in a convenient way The Notepad editor window can be closed any time The advantage of using Quick View e Any trend from any part of the database can be displayed e Quick access to any plot in the whole machine database The disadvantage of using Quick View e Only asingle trend can be displayed on a screen 39 X Trend Manual 8 X Trend Reports The following predefined reports are included into the X Trend software e Job report Machine report Machine description Transfer report Un measured machine e Print setup Most of them can be customized by the user Any report can be sent to a text editor to be modified 8
21. 1 Job Report The Job Report contains the last notes made by you for the selected machines This report is addressed to the maintenance team The notes are a consequence of the diagnosis process based onto the measurements unloaded from the X Viber instrument Dema Selecked machines A double click here Department 1 i Tie fly Dep bff Demol Department 1 Machine 1 will remove the Si Machine 1 bh Demo Department 1 Machine 2 machine from the i EE print list Bi Machine 3 Bi Machine 4 iy Department 2 iy Department 3 iy Department 4 a Header Body Print Cancel First select the machines from the hierarchy tree Just double click on each machine or drag and drop the machines in the selected machine list You can remove some machines from this list by double clicking Now if you use the software for the first time you must customize the header and the body of this report Notepad To edit the header press the Header button A specific window will appear In the pop up menu activated by a right click on the mouse you have some reserved words all included in square brackets These words will be replaced in the final report according to the actual content of the database In the Job Report Header you can add the following items Company name Date Current date Time Current time DBas Active Database name You can preview a sample of the
22. M 48 X Trend Manual If you install the application into other directory you have to change the path NOTE Your Installation kit may also contain the Help file in other languages All of them are named X TRENDxxx CHM where xxx is the language Ex swe for Swedish language You can rename the favorite help file with X TREND CHM and delete all the other help files to save the disk space If you select Imperial units for X Trend all the measurements will be automatically presented in Imperial units b In the Trend window you can select Maximum number of measurements in trend plots default value last 24 measurements plus the base line Trend Overall Line width Trend BC Line width Optional Settings General i Trend Report eee Trend overall line width 2 pixels BC and Envelope line width 2 7 pixels r Mas number of measurements in trends je4 E pe c In the Report window Headers and Bodies of the reports can be customizing by the user Optional Settings General Trend Report Machine description Transfer report Trend report Ur measured machines X Trend Manual 10 Help 10 1 Tip of the day This command is used to find details regarding news in X Trend software The tips are updated each time when you activate the Check for updates now command Each time when the X Trend software Starts the Tips window will appea
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24. SamplePlant b NewM achinedt Elle P1 ae H P2 P P4 hi Hewbachne 3 bi Hewbachne 4 hi Newh achinet2 Delete Rename MyD ataBase 5 amplePlantsNewMachineH1 SPIT After adding a new item in the database any selected item can be renamed The new items are added with a default name which can be changed any time To do this select the item s name you want to change and press Rename button Then change the name using the keyboard and finish by pressing OK An empty name is not allowed To delete an item select it first then press Delete button If the item is not the last one in the hierarchy tree or if there are already measurements stored in that particular direction the item won t be deleted As a general rule a deleting procedure must be done in the following order e measurement direction point machine plant department Double click here to s lectide select the baseline aTin Specratype 12 4 99 12 00 01 AM Nommealfmm sRM 1245 99 12 00 02 AM Reterence mm st Peep Mornalimm shM 1 7 99 120004 AM Normalimm shMi 1278 99 12 00 05 AM Narmealimm sAM EEE RR LAST Mosmellmm shi 12 10799 12 00 0 Nonmalimm sRAM 12 11799 12 00 08 Normealfmm s RM SER ANNE Homellmnmn s Hti Select one or more measurements and press Delete 12713799120010 Normal mm sAM la 4 b n MA TOT 1 PIN 1 hole er Een e Fa Pa View 13 X Trend Manual The measurements can be deleted by selecting one or more ite
25. Toolbar or pressing F1 It provides basic information on how to use the software with both a step by step guide and a more detailed description of all the available functions The functionality of the software can be accessed from different locations The main menu of course gives access to all the functions within the program and the Toolbar provides the most commonly used functions The Status bar at the bottom of the program window displays information about the opened database 1 6 Trademarks Microsoft and Windows are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and or other countries All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies or organizations X Trend Manual 2 X Trend architecture X Trend can work only in conjunction with e MS Access type database MS Access has Client Server architecture The MS Access isn t a real database server but it has a database structure A MS Access databases have the following advantages 1 Small space required on the hard disk and low resources required from the host computer 2 Easily transferred to other computers 3 Easily to create backup file Just copy the database file with extension sp3 onto a USB stick or somewhere in a network computer At the same time the MS Access database also has the following disadvantages 1 Itis nota safe database especially for a large numb
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27. a route when the X Trend software is used in conjunction with the X Viber instrument the route is used to be loaded into the data collector ready to get measurements Finally the whole route full of measurements is unloaded from the data collector back into the machine database 2 How to build a route A lot of routes can be built using the Route Edit command from Database menu Activate this command and the Route Editor will be activated bk amp Edit Route Route list Database structure Route structure Mu atab ace Hew oute a hy SamplePlant ee ky SampleFlant ee ly Cepartamentt1 i eee i Newkackinet 1 een ae A ewh achineHs eter hi Hewkblachnet4 ome toll ew achinet IF New onte Route Press Add button to add a new route An editing window will appear Give a name to the new route and press OK An existing route can be renamed or deleted if press Rename or Delete Once a new route is created you can add it some machines To do this select any machine from the machine database tree then press Add button In the same route its impossible to add the same machine two times Instead to add a machine you can add directly all the machines from a department To do this select a department and press the Add button a Add All the machines belonging to the selected Department will be added 20 X Trend Manual Remove To remove a machine from the route select the machine and press the Remove button
28. anslate Mode 2 you have the possibility to translate messages on fly Untranslated messages will appear in a window If there are too many untranslated messages don t use this mode because it will keep you busy too long 54
29. ated with a right click on the mouse you have some reserved words all included in square brackets These reserved words will be replaced into the final report according to the actual content of the database In the Job Report Body you can add the following items MPic Machine picture defined in the Database Edit Note Contents of the last Notepad contents MPar Department name MNam Machine name MDes Machine short description Ndat Last Notepad entry date DBAs Active Database name Before printing you can edit the content of the notes Use Notepad bution but first select the desired machine from the Selected machine list Finally press Print button and the Report Preview window will be activated See Report Preview for more details 8 2 Machine History Report The Machine History Reports contain all the notes for a selected machine Machine Notes Report design Machine 1 Fy Department 1 1 FEMachine 1 ge Machine 2 Bag Machine 3 Sj Machine 4 Department 2 thy hy Department 3 thy Department 4 Header Body Machine description Details Drive bel fan amp motor fe All history w records f Last months Preview First select the desired machine and decide if you want a report with the whole history or a partial report Now if you use the software for the first time you must customize the header and the body of this report To edit
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31. can remove some items for the list by double clicking or show the list pressing Show button If you don t need all the plots close some of them and use the Arrange Trend command from Windows menu to rearrange the plots on the screen You can synchronize the cursor in the trend plots Finally use Clear all command from Windows menu to close all plots can Overall Depe woo Wx 20 sem EMS Autol Spectrum lines 21 12 2009 13 32 24 Amplitude Frequency Zz mm s RMS Hz HE e 01 06 2004 03 06 00 00 08 2004 05 06 2004 07 06 2004 09 06 2004 11 06 200 roomeer rorsermsver eee 00 00 24 00 00 32 00 00 40 00 00 48 00 00 56 00 01 04 00 01 12 00 01 20 00 01 28 00 01 36 00 00 16 35 X Trend Manual X Trend can display trend plots for Total value Envelope BC Temperature Speed and Manual Entry values When a trend plot is shown you can get a large number of actions to customize the graph Most of these actions can be done using the pop up menu activated with a click on the right mouse button Other actions can be done using the mouse or and keyboard Buttons from the Toolbar are also available a Mouse and keyboard In the following picture you can see all the actions you can take using the mouse or the keyboard vl NR NR en Use let and right arrow key to change the cursor Unit and average The trend unit for the Total value of the vibration is all the time in accor
32. command is received it copies the program to root RAM remaps RAM to 0 and reboots to the new code The RAM loader is included in the X Viber application software The library also has additional functions One is to preserve the serial parameters Since the entire board is reset the USB port needs to be reinitialized These parameters are passed in RAM to the new program A function of the library is to respond to Query commands The query command is sent by the X Loader utility software to ask the board to identify itself Each board that supports the download function will reply with a user supplied string This allows the X Loader utility to identify boards by name serial number and software version The library uses no extra extended memory until a request to download is received It will then allocate enough extended memory to store the program The user program is notified that a request has been received and so it can free up extended memory if needed Only programs that use all of the extended memory would need to do this Because the RAM loader is included in FLASH no extra extended memory is required The library and the download utility will report their status to the X Loader program They will report that they have the loader in FLASH or are running it Also memory allocation and code blocks are acknowledged c PC DOWNLOAD UTILITY Programming the Boards e Connect the USB cable from the PC to a single X VIBER In
33. dance with the setting of the Alarm levels in Edit Database window The unit and average can t be changed Gain When the trend is show for the first time the gain is set in respect of the biggest Total value from the trend AUTO mode The gain can be change clicking and after this dragging the upper horizontal line of the grid If you drag it down the gain will decrease if you drag it up the gain will increase A double click in Y axis label area will restore the auto gain The gain for BC can t be adjusted Cursor When a trend is shown the cursor is placed on the last most recently measured point You can place the cursor also in the other position using the mouse click in the new position or using left and right arrows from the keyboard If the Same cursor command is check depending on Link level the cursors will move into another trend b Actions from the popup menu The Trend Menu can be activated in each Trend Plot with a right mouse click The Menu has the following actions Copy S to clipboard w Grid R to winword EA Show notepad i Show machine description ej Show machine picture Same cursar all shown t Alarm limits Use same amplitude same machine same point Appearance Colour s lection my Report iF Fo win org ch to print preview Copy This action copies the plot in clipboard or in a text editor You can use also CTRL C You can paste the clipboard contents in the notepad
34. e right to use a copy of the software All intellectual rights in the Software remain property of VMI Sweden copyrights law and international treaties protect the PRODUCT vi Proactive Maintenance Software VMI AB Torsgr nd 15 603 63 Norrk ping Sweden Tel no 46 11 31 16 67 Fax no 46 11 31 16 78 E mail info vmiab com http www vmiab com Document Reference No VMI 110 20 01 2010 20 01 2010 RevisonA SSS Revision A a Revision B a X Trend Manual Contents 1 Installing the software 1 1 From CD ROM 1 2 As Download 1 3 Installing the latest Service Pack 1 4 Updating the software 1 5 Using the help menu and toolbars 1 6Trademarks 2 X Trend architecture 2 1 Client Server Architecture 2 1 1 Client Server Database Systems 2 1 2 Desktop Database Systems 3 Database architecture 4 X Trend Overview 5 Creating registering and editing databases 5 1 Create a new database 5 2 Database registration 5 3 Database change 5 4 Database Edit 5 4 1 Database Level 5 4 2 Departments Level 5 4 3 Machine Level 5 4 4 Point Level 5 4 5 Direction Level 5 4 6 Editing on machine level 5 4 7 Editing on point level 5 4 8 Editing on direction level 5 4 9 Editing machine in batch 5 5 Route edit 5 6 Filter edit 5 Update alarm status 5 8 Semiautomatic alarm update 5 9 Machine exchange 5 10 Maintenance 5 11 Exit 6 Transfer 6 1 To from X Viber 6 2 Manual entry 6 3 X Viber software updater 7 View menu 7 1 Show
35. er of machines 2 Used in a network this type of database will dramatically increase the network traffic and slow down the communication speed 3 Itis not a solution for large enterprise integration 2 1 Client Server Architecture A Database Server is designed to work effectively in a number of environments e Asa two tier client server database system e As a desktop database system 2 1 1 Client Server Database Systems Client Server systems are constructed so that the database can reside on a central computer known as a server and are shared among several users Users access the server through the X Trend application Having data stored and managed in a central location offers several advantages e Each data item is stored in a central location where all users can work with it Separate copies of the item are not stored on each client which eliminates problems with users having to ensure they are all working with the same information e Security rules can be defined one time on the server and enforced equally among all users e lt A relational database server optimizes network traffic by returning only the data an application needs For example if an application working with a file server needs to display a list of the names and machine descriptions it must retrieve the entire Machine file If the application is working with a relational database server it sends this command SELECT Name Description FROM Machine WHERE Machine
36. es exchange between two registered databases Maintenance Delete old measurements by date or by the number of records Exit CTRL X End the work session closing the databases and returning in WINDOWS environment 5 1 Create a new database Select a database server To create a new database use Database gt Create command ES Create a new X Trend database Server connection details iH g HETRE l pr m i PEILE ober Te ie a Server type MS Access MS cces noes PL Pk Server name Administrator ID Password X Trend Manual First select the Server type to be MS Access You don t need any Administrator ID or password Press NEXT Before creating a new database you should name it first Each database has a unique file name The new created database will be automatically registered A new created database is empty it contains neither machines nor points and directions After creation to edit the database you have to activate it To do this just use the Change command To edit you should use Edit command ES Create a new X Trend database New database settings MoD atab ase Database files path z C Frogram Files T rend D ata ee 3 F 4 T A Trend name The X Trend name is optional If you don t type any name the X Trend name will be the database file name Press NEXT to continue A new MS Access database named MyDataBase sp3 will be created into t
37. g 09 12 39 02 PM LL Update Alarms Activate notepad Exit Help Report lew Transfer Edit machine The XDEMO database is a demonstration database with simulated measurements You can learn how to work with the program and to evaluate its special performances On the screen a menu list and a toolbar are displayed In the status bar on the bottom of screen the active database is also displayed On the first run the active database is XDEMO Although you can create your own database for the very beginning just use the XDEMO database If you run the program for the first time select Optional Settings command from the Settings menu Settings Report Window Y Set filter ia Template S1 Optional Settings Select the units metric or imperial and the measurement unit for frequency Hz or CPM Keep the number of measurements in trends to 24 Click Save to save this setting Choose from the View menu Selection command A specific window will appear on the screen which allows you to select the department the machine the point and the wished direction Selections are done pointing a certain direction with the mouse in the above mentioned order Now you can select a collection of trends to be shown Just double click on any trend or direction and the item will be moved on the list Instead of double clicking you may drag and drop any direction to the list If you don t want to display some items on the show list
38. ge will be automatically changed to the plot date and to the machine If only the point or direction of the same machine is changed in plot the Notepad contents will not be affected This means that the Notepad has always the active page for the right date and for the active machine You don t need to save the Notepad contents precisely When the page is changed the current contents are always automatically saved into the database 38 X Trend Manual 7 3 Quick view This command shows trends in a special way When you select this command a three window screen will appear e Database tree e Trend plot e Notepad editor Fl X Trend Database Transfer View Setting Report Window Help aes IA BE 21 dec 09 S hl 13 48 04 EJ Notepad editor Department 1 Machine 1 Ta Fie Edit Insert Format Department 1 i ial fej Machine 1 wha 4a om 208 HO El a MS Sans Serif 785 SU vertica e Horizontal Axial Point 2 Point 3 Point 4 2i Machine 2 B Machine 3 Machine 4 fly Department 2 fly Department 3 fy Department 4 Spectrum lines 23 06 2004 00 01 12 Amplitude Frequency Zz mm s RMS Hz 4 23 TOTAL 100 0 0 t i i LU i i t J ul L i LI L J LU i i 31 05 2004 02 06 2004 04 06 2004 06 06 2004 08 06 2004 10 06 2004 12 06 2004 14 06 2004 16 06 2004 18 06 2004 20 06 2004 22 06 2004 C RPM 00 00 03 00 00 09 00 00 15 00 00 21 00 00 27 00 00 33 00 00 39 00 00 45
39. guage eee O GA e Initializing program variables Startar upp program variabler 7 Creating database settings Skaparinst llningar f r databaser fe Registering databases JRegistrerar databaser F 9 Open server connection Opa O o F fio Starting the program tarpa fit e E Cy fee Fer SSE fis No Fite JInget iter Jit Datebase eat Redigera databasen 3 Translate all messages Be m o H UST sen iz rotepar ear Reiger artec Last Alarm status update senaste larm uppdateringen Search in English Beachen First select any empty text box and fill it with your language In the table nearby complete the item 1 with your language can be typed in your local language Now begins the translation Be careful in English all the messages are shorter than in the majority of all the other languages If you don t fully understand how to translate some sentences just skip the rows You may do this later When you finish close the translation window Your work will be saved in the MessagePro mdb file If you update the X Trend with a new Service Pack don t worry The Service Pack will not delete your translation file but it will add the newest words or sentences in English Just run again the Translation software and translate the latest messages 52 X Trend Manual ar set your X Trend default language Set your XTrend default language EME ngih f 2 Svenska its 3 Deu
40. he C X Trend Data directory NOTE To create a backup copy of your database just copy the sp3 file into a safe location X Trend Manual 5 2 Database registration Before using any X Trend database you must register it Use Database gt Registration command to add an existing database to your registration list If you create your own database the database will be self registered To have access to the other X Trend databases in the network you must register them first Active database Database files name and location 4 new database connection Eg Trend y me Database name Server name Add wf Cerio C Program Filesie MS Access CiProgram Filesi MS Access E C Program Filesi MS Access Remove Database generic name Server type Cancel Click the Add button and select a valid X Trend database Only registered databases can be activated in the X Trend software If the X Trend is installed in a network each user can have his own database collection The databases will be added in the registered list of databases You can any time Remove a registered database It doesn t mean you delete the selected database you just remove it from the list In addition you can rename the generic name of the database Finally click Cancel to terminate the command 5 3 Database change X Trend can manage many databases but not in the same time This means you must select a particular active database
41. he saved file the content of the header Pressing Picture button from the Toolbar you can include a picture in your header e g company logo The Header Edit window shows the header to 1 1 scale depending on your printer settings Finally press Print button and the Report Preview window will be activated 44 X Trend Manual 8 4 Transfer Report Transfer report can show any route that was transferred into the X Trend database s Transfer report From the list select the transfer date 21 decembrie 2009 Select the option box and press Print button The Transfer report can contain all measurements or just a selection depending on the alarm conditions Above Warning or Above Danger The alarm limits are collected from the route settings When a set of measurements or a route is transferred from X Viber into the machine database a Transfer report will be automatically All measurements i created If the option Automatic Alarm Report is Above Warning activated during the transfer at the end this report r Cancel can be printed or preview immediately Using this Above Danger command you can print or preview last 30 Transfer Reports 8 5 Unmeasured Machine Report This report can be useful to find the unmeasured machines from a specific date Select the date first and press Search button The report will be displayed in the print preview window ii Unmeasured machines x 1 Select de date
42. header pressing the Preview button from the toolbar 40 X Trend Manual Header editor File Edit Insert Format eh Gla B AH Arial 10 ka H Company name Date Date Time Time i Date Date Time Time MAINTENANCE REPORT for DBas DBas Database name Paper size Letter 3 1 2 x 11 in The latest content of the header will be automatically saved for the next usage If you want to have more than one type of header you will have to save the content into a file In this way you can customize as many header types as you want to Next time you can restore the contents of the header from the saved file Pressing Picture from the toolbar you can include a picture into your header e g company logo The Header Edit window shows the header to 1 1 scale depending on your printer settings In a very similar manner you can customize the body Press Body Design Body File Edit Insert Format cor W S aoa A BR Aaa Arial 10 BI U f Fortex SA Bucuresti Date 3 ianuarie 2010 Time 11 13 17 MAINTENANCE REPORT MMam Machine name for DBas lac MFic Machine picture gy MDes Machine description Departament MP ar MPar Machine plant Machine MNam MDes MPic 2 Mote Mote content MOat Motepad date f f Meas date NDat DBas Database name Motes Paper size Letter 3 1 2 x 11 in 41 X Trend Manual In the pop up menu activ
43. ms then pressing the Delete button or Delete from the keyboard The order of the items in the database tree can be changed anytime Click on the item press Ctrl key and use the arrows buttons to change the position in the tree al a The movement can be done only inside of the hierarchy level a machine can be moved only in its Department Point only in its Machine etc The baseline can t be deleted First double click on the item to transform the baseline into a normal measurement than delete It When the machine definition is finished plant machine point and direction on every level of the hierarchy you can edit very helpful settings 5 4 6 Editing on machine level On machine level you can edit Database edit fly Department 1 Machine 1 Machine 1 arr Si F A Pole H Machine descriptor Description E Pant Drive belt fan amp motor Point 3 Point 4 ge Machine 2 Sag Machine 3 Boj Machine 4 fly Department 2 Picture size fy Department 3 14610 Bytes hy Department 4 Setting Alen cette Foue sirgs Copy from template Copy as template Pii k ADemosDepartment 1 Machine 1 e A short description a 30 40 characters length description of the machine This description may be used in reports e A machine description clicking on Description button a text editor will appear For each machine you can add here as much information as you want You can use different
44. ms at 200 FINAL RESULTS Residual unbalane 0 73 grams at 196 Final vibration 3 45 mms rms at 247 Balancing improvement amp 3 49 FA W Send to Send to y database MSWord Print out E mit Click on the Show balancing label and a new window will appear On the left side of the window you can see all balancing files both One plan balancing and Three point balancing but marked with different icons on the left side of file s name On the right side of the window the Balancing Report is shown In this screen you can send the Balancing Report content in the X Trend database The destination will be a specific machine Notepad send the Balancing Report into a MS Word type document where you may edit the content print the Balancing Report directly to a printer 30 X Trend Manual 6 2 Manual entry With this command you can add manually measurements in the machine database Measurements can be added only to the Manual Entry point previously defined with Edit command Manual Entry point is used to add to the machine database other useful information regarding machine condition Manual Entry point is collected manually from the Plant and can be any numeric value e g Bearings temperature inlet pressure pump flow If this command is used a specific window will appear si Manual entry transfer 12 ianuarie 2010 14 46 00 19 01 2010 fEMyDataBase hy SamplePlant whi MewMachinedt 1 P1 F Tempera
45. n SamplePlant NewMachine 1 Save to all machines Click Route settings to set the route definition For each direction you can set Spectrum maximum frequency BC High pass Filter Also you can enable collection of BC or and Envelope in Route Save button is used to save the settings The settings are also automatically saved when you change the item selection in the hierarchy tree Using the Save to all machines button you may copy and save the alarm settings for all vibration directions of the current machine When your database has more than one identical machine edit only one machine then copy and paste this machine many times You can save a just created machine into a template database or use the template database to copy a predefined machine in your database 17 X Trend Manual Database edit z MoD atab ase ly SamplePlant INewMachine 1 i NewMachined ok Hi Se Machine descriptor Description Drive belt fan amp motor F Temperature f r Speed a Current e NewM achinets Picture size bg Newh achinettd 0 Bytes hi Newh achinet2 EL Setting Copy as template i etg 4 MD atab ase S amplePlant N ewh achine When editing just use popup menu to copy a machine then paste the content to another one Copy Add 7 B X Delete Press Exit button to finish the editing session Fename Copy as template Copy from template 18 X Trend Manual 5 4 9
46. n If you accept the default location X Trend will be installed on C Program Files X Trend directory X Trend Manual 1 2 As Download When you have obtained the software as a digital file e g downloaded it there are two possible variants A You have a zipped file zip file or B you have the installer exe file When you have a zipped or stuffed file recognizable by the compression icon you need to have WinZip or another program that supports these compressed files If you have the Installer file you can proceed by double clicking this file The installation will start and you will have to follow the instructions displayed on screen 1 3 Installing the latest Service Pack The latest available Service Pack is always on the CD ROM Before running the Service Pack Installation file first start the X Trend once At this moment you can select the software language also 1 4 Updating the software X Trend software is equipped with an automatic software update check You can easily check if there is a free update available by selecting Help gt Check for Updates from the menu bar An Internet connection is needed for this sk X Trend software upgrade we Checking For latest File EN Downloading the update file Lastversion txt From YMI AB server Cancel 1 5 Using the help menu and toolbars If you experience any problems when using the software you can open the help file by clicking Help from the
47. nce the utility starts downloading the user FLASH code the board is susceptible to a power loss or reset If the board is reset in the middle of a download it may be not recovered In this case the only way to fix the problem would be to use the Rabbit RFU utility and the serial debugger cable 2 If the user flash file is not found the download will abort At this point the RAM loader is running and the FLASH remains untouched To recover select the correct user program file and restart the download The utility will see that the board already has the RAM loader and will skip right to the FLASH download 33 X Trend Manual 7 View menu 7 1 Show selected trends When you select this command a specific window will appear in the screen which will allow you to select the department the machine the point and the wished direction The selections are done for a certain direction vibration or Point Manual Entry with the mouse in the above mentioned order Now you can select a collection of trends to be shown Just double click to any direction or Point and the item will be move to the show list Instead of double clicking you can drag and drop any Direction or Point in the list If you want to not display some items from the list just double click on them and they will be removed from the list Finally press Show button and the entire list will be shown After you displayed some trends the main window remains active and
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49. nt databases for each group in their organization and sometimes a database used by a single application like X Trend For example an organization could have one database for sales one for payroll one for a document management application one for rotating machinery and so on Sometimes an application uses only one database other applications may access several databases It is not necessary to run multiple copies of Database Server to allow multiple users to access the databases on a server Database Server is capable of handling thousands of users working in multiple databases on the same server at the same time Database Server makes all databases on the server available to all users that connect to the server subject to the defined security permissions X Trend Manual When connecting to Database Server your connection is associated with a particular database on the server This database is called the current database You are usually connected to a database defined as your default database by the system administrator although you can use other connection options in the X Trend to specify another database You can switch from one database to another with the Change command from X Trend application The X Trend allows you to create multiple machine databases Using the Database gt Exchange Machine command you can copy machines from one Database to another 4 X Trend Overview X Trend software is mainly dedicated work in conjunction
50. ntica Report Now you can transfer any existing route from or to X Viber instrument To synchronize the X Viber clock with computer s clock just press e 28 X Trend Manual 1 Download a route definition Select the route from the list Press transfer to X Viber button left arrow button The selected route will be transferred into X Viber instrument Measure Press transfer from X Viber button right arrow button The measurements will be down loaded in the machine database 2 Using transfer option After a route was transferred from the X Viber instrument before exit you can select e Automatic Alarm Report If this option is checked after exiting from the transfer window a Transfer Report will be shown 3 Transfer balancing files From the Transfer menu you have to select X Viber function A window like the following one will appear on the screen Communication with X Viber aoe Update alarm status fl Set clack Automatic Alarm Report Terminate Ready to transfer 29 X Trend Manual gt X Viber balancing data Ct EE BALANCING REPORT j 06 01 2010 11 54 11 single plane balancing procedure Date 06 07 2010 11 54 11 Just click onto the balancing you have to transfer Balancing speed 2980 CPM INITIAL RUN Initial Vibration 27 02 mum s rms at 325 Initial Unbalance 4 43 grams at 273 r You will get all the balancing 3 00 grams at 0 information you need 24 10 mum s r
51. o the PC using USB cable start the instrument and select Communication menu from the Main menu In the X Trend software select Transfer gt X Viber command as usual e f the connection was properly established the upgrading will be automatically done An information message will show that the X Viber upgrade facility was successfully done e Disconnect the X Viber instrument and check if the new functions can be used on it Activation code list Edit activation code ck cancel 51 X Trend Manual 11 X Trend translation X Trend is multilingual software The entire program message is stored in Message mdb file a Microsoft Access database In order to have an X Trend version in a specific language the entire database must be translated When you install the X Trend some additional executable files are automatically installed To translate the software just run Start gt Programs gt X Trend gt Translate message 1 Type your language in any empty text box Translate X Trend messages all messages are available a a a English c 4 aa 1 Check your language to translate fram English m 2 Svenska 5 2 Fill all empty rows below with your own translation C o3 Deutsch C g Romans 3 All changes will be automatically saved eo Window deseription Di english gt eating database stings Laser gatabasinst mnga i r Cia nes cin ae Re 5 Reding pinta seings asersivarnstanngar gt Type the lan
52. previewing you can print the report to the system printer The report can also be made directly in a text editor c Actions from the toolbar Notepad button When this button is pressed the Notepad will be activated in accordance with the active Trend plot ey Notepad is available all the time when a plot is visible on the screen The Notepad can also be activated from the popup menus of each plot Show notepad command line The Notepad date appears in accordance with the plot date From a trend plot the Notepad will appear with the cursor date Because the Notepad contents appear in many Reports a proper documentation done in the Notepad will ensure a good report also 3 X Trend Manual Notepad editor Department amp 1 Machine 1 Fie Edit Insert Format CEET 35 lB Z ul lE Insert picture Insert text from file Text area Show all pages Notepad paqe date 21 12 2009 The Notepad must be used to improve your diagnosis process Into the Notepad can be added Any plot form the screen Any text using copy and paste Any text or rtf external file Any picture including digital camera picture The text can be formatted as in any standard text editor The contents of a page can be saved in an rtf file type Notepad is page and machine oriented Each page has its own date The Notepad is synchronized also with the plots When a plot sets focus and the Notepad is visible the Notepad pa
53. r If you don t want this just deselect the option Show tips on startup r Tip of the day B Did you know You can move a whole machine definition foptionally included all existing measurements From one database to another using the Machine exchange command From Database menu Mext tip We Show Tips at Startup 10 2 Check for updates now This command is used when the user intend to update or upgrade the X Trend or and X Viber software Your computer must be connected to Internet a fast communication speed is recommended The latest available version of the software will be downloaded The download procedure can take a long time depending on the internet communication speed 3 X Trend software upgrade Checking For latest File E Downloading the update file Lastversion txt From YMI AB server Cancel 50 X Trend Manual 10 3 Activation code list Using this command the user can add in a list a new activation code The purpose of the code is to activate some optionally functions in this software or in X Viber instrument The producer VMI AB SWEDEN provides on requests the activation code For a complete list of available functions please contact VMI AB or visit their web site http www vmiab com Activation instructions Add the received code s in the list one by one using Add button e Close the Activation code list window when finish Attach the X Viber instrument t
54. ress Add button to add a new filter Editing windows will appear Cancel Name the new filter and press OK An existing filter can be renamed or deleted by pressing the Rename or Delete buttons Once a new filter is created you can add some machines to that filter To do this select any machine in the machine database then press Add In the same route it s impossible to add the same machine two times Instead to add a machine you can add directly all the machines from a department To do this select a department and press the Add button All the machines belonging to the selected Department will be added CM Remove To remove a Machine from the filter tree select the Machine and press Remove buiton You can remove the whole Department as well To do this select it from the filter tree and press the Remove button From an existing Filter you can exclude either vibration Direction or manual entry Point Cw Exclude Into a filter you can arrange the items using Arrange buttons To do this first press CTRL key on the computer keyboard and then click on the Up Down arrows 22 X Trend Manual 3 Filter activation To activate a filter proceed as it follows Select Settings gt Set filter fe Filter settings Filter name x DiemoPro Full facility ae New Filter Filter SAMLE ROUTE Route Select a Filter definition or a Route A Route can be used whenever you want to as a Filter You
55. s excluding a 6 7 Taj 13 14 20 21 27 28 20 d Today 15 01 2010 Repair and compact Ok Cancel The baseline vibration can t be deleted Deleting process can take a long time especially for long databases From time to time you can press the Repair and compact button A checking procedure will begin Also the database size will be optimized 5 11 Exit This command is used to end normally the working session This command closes all the databases of the application and leaves free computer s memory ready for other application in WINDOWS environment You can exit just pressing the specific button on the Toolbar 21 X Trend Manual 6 Transfer 6 1 To from X Viber This command allows To transfer a route to the X Viber instrument To transfer a route from X Viber instrument into the active database in the computer First you must have a USB cable connected between your computer and X Viber instrument In the Status bar the Awaiting connection message will appear wating connection Now you must select from the X Viber Menu the Communication menu line and press the instrument OK key In the left list the name of the existing route into the instrument will appear if any Ready to transfer The Status bar will display Ready to transfer message In the X Trend route area will appear all defined route Communication with Vi ber II Update alarm status kl ON A
56. strument Multitarget software loading is not allowed and an error message will appear if more than one X VIBER instruments are connected to the PC e Start the X VIBER instrument and select the INFO Menu e Now start the X Loader software e If the Connect button is enabled just press the button and wait to establish the connection Press Browse button to select the latest X VIBER image file with bin extension To download press the Load button 32 X Trend Manual A Loader for X Viber 3 0 0 Binary file to load C Program Files tT rend BIN VIBE R535 bin Browse Instrument Serial Number SAW OOOS08 TG Software found WIBER SOFTWARE 5 37 Press Load button to continue The download procedure will perform the following steps Send a request to the board for extended memory to store the RAM loader Send a Run command to start the RAM loader code Research for the board to find response from RAM loader Download the user code Send a Reboot command to run the user code a NE The X Viber instrument acknowledges each step A progress bar on the bottom of the window shows download completion Once the download is complete and the board has restarted you should be able to perform a loading session or to exit Errors Each operation is checked The system will try to recover from errors The status log window will show these errors The download can be retried if it fails Some notes 1 O
57. the header press Header button A specific window will appear 42 X Trend Manual Print preview Header editor File Edit Insert Format eh aln ma 58 BOE Arial le pe here v r Company name here company name Date Date Time Time A Date Date Time Time MPIc Mann Machine name ISTOI y Re po rt a MPic Machine picture for Machine MNam from MP ar J MDes Machine description MFar Machine plant Type here reports name Machine details MDes This item will be replaced with the actual machine name DBas Database name 30 12 1399 Paper size Letter 1 2 x 11 in Paper size depending on the printer setup In the pop up menu activated with a right click on the mouse you have some reserved words all included in square brackets These words will be replaced in the final report according to the actual content of the database You can preview a sample of the header pressing the Preview button from the toolbar The latest content of the header will be automatically saved for the next time If you want to have more than one type of header you will have to save the content into a file In this way you can customize how many header types you want Next time you can restore from the saved file the content of the header Pressing Picture button from the Toolbar you can include a picture in your header e g company logo The Header Edit window shows
58. this function you can customize your X Trend software In the Optional Settings windows you can select three different submenus as follows Optional Settings Unit Alarm status i IM 1 dalah 1 Metric fv EE 7 C Imperial Refresh interval Help File Ic Program Files Trend s Trend chm Browse ee NOTE The alarms are not automatically updated but only the database is checked for new measurements If new measurements exist in the database the Manual Update Alarm button will be changed as follows By Asse dec 09 11 ian 10 13 45 04 14 14 13 There are no changes in the alarm status iu of the Alarm status is reguired If the mouse cursor is moved in the button area the tool tip text will indicate if the alarm update is required or not If an alarm update is required a manual update is necessary Just press the button and the update procedure will begin NOTE For medium and large size machine databases a complete updating procedure can take minutes During the alarm update the software is locked for the user That s why a full automatic procedure can t be implemented a In General window you can select Measuring units imperial or metric units Frequency unit Hz or CPM X Trend help file In the installation kit a help file named X Trend chm is provided If you install the application with the default settings help file s path is C Program files X TREND CH
59. tsch 3 60Umtttt lt iCsOCSCSCidSY 6 Romanian tis z j This setting will be saved in file C Program Files Trend T rend ini General Language 1 When you close the Translation software the window above will appear Your language will appear in the translation list Just select your language in the list and next time when you will start the X Trend all the message will appear in your language The last language is saved in the X TREND ini file as shown above If some messages are not translated you have the possibility to do this when the X Trend software is running The X TREND INI configuration file is created at once after installation when first running the program It contains a series of general constants of the program which can be cautiously modified by the user Legend General Language 1 1 English etc MessagePro E X TREND MessagexXT mdb TranslateMode 0 TranslateMode 0 Untranslated message will be shown in English TranslateMode 1 Untranslated message will be shown like NoMessage Message in English TranslateMode 2 Untranslated message can be edited on fly HeloFile E X TREND X Trend chm Trends Buffer 24 OverallLineWidth 2 BCLineWidth 2 53 X Trend Manual You can edit X TREND INI temporary file to change the manner of doing translation If you set Translate Mode 1 untranslated messages will be shown as NoMessage Message in English If you set Tr
60. ture jele l seed my Current al s 6 ce bh MewMachine 3 bb MewMachine 4 pi MewMachine z al 2 al hy Departament 1 gt E ES SampleFlant WMewMachine 1 Current The new measurements can be added in two ways By mouse By keyboard First adjust properly the date and time Then select a destination for the new measurement The destination must be only a Manual Entry Point Then type the value of the measurement and press ENTER or the Transfer button In a single work session you can add as many measurements is necessary Pressing Show Trend button you can see the trend plot for the selected point The transfer session can be finished pressing the Exit button 4 31 X Trend Manual 6 3 X Viber software updater Before to do this use Check for updates now command to unload from VMI s Web site the latest available version a INTRODUCTION The Serial Download Utility allows X Viber instrument to upgrade the FLASH code in the field using a standard USB cable This functionality consists of 1 A small library included in the user program SERDOWNL LIB 2 A small RAM based program that downloads the new code and programs FLASH 3 This software to find and program boards b HOW IT WORKS The SERDOWNL LIB library uses a small RAM based loader This loader is small 24k The library routine has to allocate a buffer in the extended memory to store the program After the code was downloaded and a RUN
61. type of colors letter size and alignment You can import the content of some external files text or 14 X Trend Manual RTF or pictures The content of machine description can be printed with Report gt Machine Description Report e A Machine picture For each machine you can add a picture from the existing collection provided in the installation kit The picture must be in a picture file format Of course you can make your own pictures with a digital camera To add a picture to a machine click Browse button and select any picture file 5 4 7 Editing on point level On the Point level only for manual entry point speed point or temperature point you can define measurement units and alarm limits STETTIN Alarm limits Danger HI warning HI warning LO Danger Lo Paste button Save button Unik Range HI 100 00 A Copy Range Lo 0 00 A button 5 61 SamplePlant NewMachines 1 Current The unit is a string maximum 6 characters length For each manual entry point you can define two sets of alarms limit LO and HI Zero value for an alarm means no alarm Using Copy button you can copy all the alarm settings from one direction and with the Paste button you can paste that settings to any other direction Save button is used to save the settings The settings are also automatically saved when you change the item selection in the hierarchy tree 15 X Trend Manual 5 4 8 Editing on direction level
62. ultaneously explore the machines and the trends of the selected direction Trends from whole machine where you can see at once all the trends for the selected machine In all this views a notepad is available on the machine level to introduce all the observations after diagnosis Finally chose the Job Report command and you can customize a report for the maintenance team using all the notes supplied Once you customize a Job Report the appearance of this will be saved and the next report can be made faster Job report can be transferred to an external text editor You can then preview modify and finally print the Job Report You can also preview and print the report directly to a printer From time to time you will want to make a history report of a selected machine To do this just use Machine Notes Report You can also customize the history report and then preview modify and print it The previously mentioned reports have two different purposes The Job Report is addressed mainly to the maintenance team The Machine Notes Report is useful to take some proactive actions before a failure of the machinery may occur X Trend Manual The X Trend software is very flexible and offers you enough commands to do the same things in different manners Before to use the software read carefully this manual use XDEMO database available into the installation kit and try to learn how to use efficiently this powerful program 21 Au
63. warranty shall be in VMI s sole discretion i to replace your defective Software or ii if the above remedy is impracticable to refund the License fee you paid for the Software Replaced Software and Documentation if any shall be covered by this limited warranty for the period remaining under the warranty that covered the Original Software or if longer for thirty 30 days after the date of shipment to you of the replaced Software Only if you inform VMI of your problem with the Software during the applicable warranty period and provide evidence of the date you acquired the Software will VMI be obligated to honor this warranty VMI will use reasonable commercial efforts to replace or refund pursuant to the foregoing warranty within thirty 80 days of being so notified THIS IS A LIMITED WARRANTY AND IT IS THE ONLY WARRANTY MADE BY VMI VMI MAKES NO OTHER WARRANTY REPRESENTATION OR CONDITION EXPRESS OR IMPLIED AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NO INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS THE DURATION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY AND OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE IS LIMITED TO THE ABOVE LIMITED WARRANTY PERIOD SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON HOW LONG AN IMPLIED WARRANTY OR CONDITION LASTS SO LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU NO VMI AGENT OR EMPLOYEE IS AUTHORIZED TO MAKE ANY
64. with the X Viber instrument For every plant you can create a database which can have an unlimited number of machines measuring points and directions The vibration measurements are stored at the measurement direction level and the process measurements are stored at the point level If you store more than two measurements for a direction then you can display the evolution trend of the Total Vibration and or Bearing Condition Coefficient BC and or Envelope The trend considers as default only the last 24 measurements for that direction but you can change this using the Optional Settings command The program allows to copy in clipboard any displayed graphs and to copy this graphs later in a text editor e g WORD or in the Notepad This is the way to make the machine reports The machine Database takes machinery measurement unloaded from X Viber instrument The users will add into the notepad information according to the diagnosis procedure Analyzing this information periodically you can act proactively discovering the real causes of the failures One of the purposes of this program is to supply to the maintenance team a daily report regarding the action to take to maintain the machinery in good working condition When measurements are downloaded a procedure of creating a report will begin In order to analyze the collected data you have tree options to view them Selection of trends Quick view session where you can sim
65. you can select other trends Although it can display a large amount of information on a single screen it is recommended to limit the number of simultaneously opened plots because they will become smaller and smaller and many details will be lost z2 MoD atab ase Trends to show hy SamplePlant 1 List of selection Newh achine 1 ut FP fee New achineH SPW pu ae H1 Temperature lt p Speed my Current bg NewMachinet3 bad NewhachineH4 hi Newh achinet2 ky Departamentit co MyDD atab ase amplePlant h ewh achinefT PTY Press here to get the trend for your selection 34 X Trend Manual 7 2 Show trends from the whole machine With this command you can see in a single scrolling screen all the trends associated with a machine Trend View fy Department 1 aes Machine 14Point 1 Y ertical Bad Machine H1 Machine 1 Point 1 SHorizontal Bh Machine 2 FE Machine 1 Point H Arial Bei Machine 3 Ae Machine 1 Point 2 Vettical Bij Machine 4 Machine 1 Paint 2 Horizontal a Machine 1 Paint H2Asal a Machine 1 Point 3 Vertical a Machine 15Font 3 Horizontal 2 Machine 1Point s Asial ston First select from the hierarchy tree the desired machine In the right part of the selection window a list with all directions of the selected machine will appear iby Department 2 iby Department 3 hy Department 4 Before showing you can rearrange the list dragging the items Now you

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