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Acquisition, Recording and Live Visualization of Process Data

Acquisition, Recording and Live Visualization of Process Data
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Acquisition, Recording and Live Visualization of Process Data

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Overview of iba System: The document provides a detailed overview of the iba system, focusing on its core products: ibaPDA, ibaQPanel, and ibaQDR, which are designed for process data acquisition, recording, and live visualization in industrial and energy sectors.
ibaPDA - Process Data Acquisition:
  • Core Functionality: A versatile, PC-based software for acquiring and recording process data with high-resolution and comprehensive connectivity options.
  • Features: Offers flexible configuration, scalable architecture, triggered recording, password protection, and continuous data recording via ibaHD-Server.
  • Real-Time Monitoring: Detects errors and deviations in real-time, generating alerts and alarms, and supports various output interfaces.
  • Client-Server Architecture: Allows distributed tasks with the server handling data acquisition and the client managing configuration and live visualization.
  • Synchronization: Systems can be synchronized using ibaPDA-Multistation, useful for applications like Transient Fault Recording in energy grids.
Comprehensive Connectivity:
  • Data Acquisition: Supports various data types and can acquire data directly from control systems using Xplorer interfaces.
  • Connection Methods: Supports fiber optics, Ethernet, and various fieldbuses, including OPC client and server capabilities and IEC 61850.
  • Audio Data: Can record audio data using standard sound cards or USB microphones.
Configuration and Diagnostics:
  • Ease of Use: Offers simple configuration with autodetect features and validation to prevent errors.
  • Diagnostics: Integrated diagnostics provide real-time status and value information of connected data sources.
Display and User Management:
  • Customizable Displays: Users can configure displays individually, with options for live display, pause, and scroll functions.
  • User Management: Supports defining multiple users with different access rights and can integrate with Active Directory.
  • SNMP Integration: Can be integrated into a network management system using SNMP protocols.
Additional Software: Briefly mentions other software like ibaInSpectra for real-time vibration monitoring, ibaInCycle for cyclical process analysis, ibaHD-Server for historical data access, and ibaCapture for synchronized video and process data recording.
Customized Layouts: Describes the ability to configure display layouts individually for different applications using a layout manager.
Signal Grouping: Signals can be grouped technologically or thematically into signal groups, which are stored in the measurement file and accessible in ibaAnalyzer.
Data Transfer and Streaming: Allows users to decide where data should be stored and offers options for transferring data to other systems, including streaming to databases and cloud services.
SQL Interface: Enables direct reading and writing of data from/to databases, supporting user-defined SQL queries and statements.
Licensing Model: Outlines the licensing model for ibaPDA, including basic licenses graded by the number of signals, server licenses for specific functionalities, and data store licenses for streaming data.
System Architecture: Operates on a client/server architecture, supporting multiple clients and a range of signal licenses.
Data Storage and Presentation: Includes two independent data stores, with options for signal compression and trigger-based recording.
ibaQPanel Add-on: Provides live representation of process and quality data, integrating seamlessly with ibaPDA.
Technological Functions: Includes special functions for displaying profiles and frequency ranges.
Application Examples: Provides examples of ibaQPanel's integration in HMI systems and its use as a paperless recorder.
Visualization Tools: Describes the use of 2D-color displays and bar charts for visualizing profiles such as flatness and thickness deviations.
ibaCapture and Scenario Player: Explains how ibaCapture allows for the display of multiple camera views, enabling users to monitor plant areas effectively.
Display Objects: Various display objects can be dynamically loaded and positioned, enhancing data analysis capabilities.
Input Objects: Enable user interaction with signals, allowing for the selection and manipulation of values within the system.
Quality Data Recording (ibaQDR): An add-on for ibaPDA, designed for high-resolution quality data recording.
Vibration Monitoring (ibaInSpectra): Provides real-time vibration monitoring, allowing for the detection of potential error sources early.
Cyclical Process Monitoring (ibaInCycle): Monitors cyclically recurring processes, enabling early detection of anomalies.
Data Storage and Analysis (ibaHD-Server): Records measurement data continuously over long periods, allowing for detailed analysis and event detection.
Historical Data Management with ibaHD-Server: Facilitates continuous recording and storage of measured data and events over extended periods.
Video and Process Data Synchronization with ibaCapture: Records video streams from cameras and HMI systems in sync with measured values from ibaPDA.
Order Information for ibaPDA: Provides detailed order information for various ibaPDA packages.
Data Store and Communication Interfaces: License extensions are available for data streaming into various databases and cloud services.
Training and Support: Outlines available training courses for measurement, data evaluation, and automatic reporting with iba systems.
Training Courses Overview: Lists various training courses available for different aspects of the iba system.
Product Licenses: Details licenses for various add-ons and extensions.
Contact Information: Provides contact information for iba's headquarters and regional offices worldwide.
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Acquisition, Recording and Live Visualization of Process Data ibaPDA ibaPDA The modern classic of data acquisition ibaQPanel Displaying quality data live and in color ibaQDR Length-based recording of quality data Measurement Systems for Industry and Energy www.iba-ag.com

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ibaPDA The modern classic of data acquisition 3 ibaQPanel Display quality data - live and in color 14 ibaQDR Length-based recording of quality data 18 Other software at a glance ibalnSpectra Real time monitoring of process vibrations 20 ibaInCycle Monitoring and analysis of cyclical processes 21 ibaHD-Server Historical data immediately available 22 ibaCapture Record and analyze videos and process data synchronously

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Acquire data As a central part of the iba system, ibaPDA has been proven to be one of the most versatile systems acquiring high-resolution process data. The comprehensive connectivity to the process with the autodetect function for easy configuration, the client-server architecture and the variable recording options are just some of the convincing features. At a glance > System with comprehensive connectivity for acquiring high-resolution process data > Efficient acquisition of data from control systems of different manufacturers and device generations > Triggered or time-based data storage in...

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The iba system with the core products ibaPDA and ibaAnalyzer recording, consisting of two or more files. This way, data can be continuously acquired to consistently monitor the processes. On the other hand, individual recordings can be started and stopped using triggers to get product-related data or to specifically analyze faults. Measurement files can also be protected against unauthorized access by a password. If, on the other hand, a continuous recording of data without file limits is needed, ibaHD-Server offers the option of continuously recording data over very long periods of time. Process...

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Comprehensive connectivity One special characteristic of ibaPDA is the broad connectivity, which makes it possible to acquire various types of data with different acquisition methods time synchronously and centrally. This includes analog and digital I/O signals, signals from field and drive buses, data from the control system, production data, product characteristic values, energy data, vibration data, descriptive additional information, etc. Data directly from control systems With the Xplorer interfaces, data can be acquired directly from control systems from all common manufacturers without...

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Connection of measurement devices Different interfaces allow the connection of different measurement devices, such as infrared linescanners, laser profile scanners, LMI Gocator sensors and temperature scanners. OPC client and server The standard function scope of ibaPDA includes an OPC DA client interface. Using the browser function, OPC tags can be conveniently selected and recorded as signals. ibaPDA also provides all signals acquired via all interfaces via an OPC DA server. Furthermore, ibaPDA can be operated as an OPC UA server and acquire signals via an OPC UA client interface. IEC 61850...

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Signal listing in the signal tree, signal search Live display of the signals in individual layouts Display of event log and data storage status names can also be conveniently inserted via text file import or clipboard. By means of the autodetect function, ibaPDA automatically detects the connected devices (hardware) and adds them into the configuration. Configuration validation The configuration of the input modules provides user support by context sensitive selection menus in order to avoid configuration errors. Configuration changes are always checked and validated by the system before being...

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Comfortable display and operation The display can be configured for each user individually using buttons and drag & drop. Any number of signal displays with any number of signals can be created in separate or common signal graphs. Different views with individual settings for scaling, signal composition, colors, etc. can be saved and selected anytime. In addition to the live display, the signal graphs provide a pause and scroll function. By means of markers, individual measured values or the difference of two values can be immediately displayed. Status windows for data storage, text signals and...

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Live visualization individually c onfigurable for each client Numerous display functions in ibaPDA support the user in live analysis Meaningful displays With a multi-client solution, displays independent from each other can be realized on different clients. The ibaPDA client includes a trend view, a scope view, an FFT (Fast Fourier Transformation) view to display the frequency spectrum of several signals and digital displays for analog values and texts. Together with ibaCapture, videos can also be acquired synchronously with process data. The videos can be watched live in the ibaPDA client, playback...

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MariaDB' FOUNDATION Message Broker MES/Data Warehouse A IT network Process network OT Store data where it is needed With ibaPDA, the user decides which data should be stored where. In addition to recording data in measurement files, ibaPDA or ibaHD-Server offers different options of transferring data to other systems. Streaming data via data stores The time-based streaming of data to different target systems is possible in ibaPDA. Currently streaming to databases (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SAP HANA, InfLuxDB), to Kafka clusters, MQTT brokers and MindSphere cloud is supported....

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Basic licenses The basic licenses of ibaPDA are graded according to the number of signals and comprise one free usable client and one additional client which can be used exclusively on the server computer. Licenses are available for 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192 and unlimited number of signals. The quantities refer to the total number of signals - analog, digital or text signals. The basic licenses also include two independent data stores, which can acquire in parallel. For a further extension, single or multiple licenses for additional clients are available as well as licenses for...

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