USER MANUAL OMEGA application Online Monitoring Expert Guard Application

OMEGA manual

OMEGA manual Introduction OMEGA is created especially for factory control rooms where people monitor machinery pressures, temperatures and other process parameters. Along with these parameters you can display info about mechanical condition of your machines. More and more factories are turning to online condition monitoring system due to lack of vibrations analysts or experienced people in this field. At the beginning of Omega developing, we were inspired by our successful FASIT expert system. But we did not copy its algorithm. We started from the scratch and created much more sophisticated OMEGA...

OMEGA manual Application installation Application is installed with file Omega_v1.0.0.0.exe (it will differ with new versions of the application). Installation file can be downloaded from www.adash.com. Note! Please keep in mind that before installation itself you need to upgrade the firmware of your online unit to version 2.82 or higher. The latest firmware is available on Adash website: www.adash.com. To proceed with the installation please see following steps. First of all, choose setup language. Confirm your option with ‘OK’ button. Next window is ‘Setup’ window. Click through it and read...

OMEGA manual Next window is to set start menu folder. You can also keep the default option here or choose different one. Note! Basically, this step is taken to create program’s shortcut in Windows start menu. See the following screenshot. You can see Adash folder in Windows start. Omega shortcut is created under it (same as DDS, Virtual Unit, etc.).

OMEGA manual You can create also desktop shortcut for Omega application if you want to. If not, just unmark the checkbox. You can see the summary of your choices in the last window before you press ‘Install’ button.

OMEGA manual It is done! Click on ‘Finish’ button to close the installation setup. You have Omega installed in your computer now.

OMEGA manual Licenses You need a license file to make Omega application work. The license itself is not related to any dongle key (as it is in case of DDS software). You only need the license file from Adash to make Omega work properly. The license file needs to be saved to online unit. This file is named e.g. adash_0x6331430.a44 (0 is the board number – 0 stands for the first board. Each unit’s board has its own license file for Omega.). It is important to save license file to online unit folder in following location: c:\A3716\data\VA4licence. Note! Omega application will be working without...

OMEGA manual Password can be created under tab ‘Administrator’. Choose ‘Create password’. Once the password is set, you can see there is no button ‘Create password’. You can see here ‘Modify password’ b

OMEGA manual A3xxx devices This tab is used for working with online units. You can add online units (A3716 and A3800) here. Just click on ‘A3xxx Devices’ and you can see following window. This window is blank (without any online unit added) when you start to use Omega application. You need to add your online unit with ‘Add’ button. Fill in units name and its IP address. You can set used sensors here. Or you can also use sensor settings from DDS – ‘Read DDS sensor settings from the device’. Confirm with ‘OK

OMEGA manual Once online unit is added, you can see it in the list. Once you choose online unit in this list (click on it), all options will be ready to use. It means that options like Edit, Remove, Test connection and Erase History will be available. Edit – Properties window for online unit is opened with this button. You can edit parameters of online unit – name, IP address, sensors. Remove – Remove the online unit from the list. (If online unit is used in some measurement point, you get the error message with this information.) Test connection – Connection test between Omega and online unit....

OMEGA manual If connection is working well but online unit doesn’t have Omega license, you get ‘Ping was successful, but omega is not licensed!’. Omega will not be working properly. The last result you can get with ping test is ‘Ping was not successful’. In this case the connection between Omega and online unit is not working. Sensors Sensor settings are done when you add the online unit (it is mentioned above). You can also edit it later here (tab A3xxx Devices – click on the device – Edit). For each channel you can define the sensor parameters – unit, sensitivity in mV/unit and ICP powering....

OMEGA manual Projects We described how to work with ‘Project’ tab in this chapter. Creation of new project You need to be logged in to create new project. If no password for Omega is set, you are automatically logged in as administrator (every time you open Omega). If password is set, you need to login as below to create new project. So, click on ‘Administrator’ tab. Choose ‘Logi

OMEGA manual After that, new project can be created. Click on ‘Project’ tab and choose ‘New’. You get the window for project name. Fill in the name and confirm with OK.

OMEGA manual Project structure Once the project is created you need to create its structure. It is very similar like tree structure in DDS. You add machines, machine parts and measurement points here. Use ‘Add’ tab to add machine to project. Machine is the first level item of the structure. Name the machine and set its parameters. Parameters description: Name Fill in the name of your machine. Speed Set the machine speed settings. You can choose RPM, Interval, Tacho. Each option has more settings included. It is shown below Speed row. In this example, there is set ‘Speed: Tacho’. Additional settings...

OMEGA manual Mach. Type Choose type of your machine. There are options: Electric motor, Fan, Pump and Other. Machine Thold Choose threshold value for the machine. Note! Threshold is also used for evaluation of the machine status: running/not running. This evaluation is done on machine level (not point level!). It means: if all measurements on the machine are below the threshold – the machine is not running. If at least one measurement is above the threshold value – the machine is running. You can also add particular machine parts. It can be gearbox, motor, etc. Machine parts are added with the...