The Trending Tool online help features step-by-step instructions as well as all the essential information you need to perform the necessary procedures. It also provides answers which are directly relevant to your queries, omitting unnecessary information. To run the online help, press F1 or click on the ? menu and move the mouse pointer onto Contents.
If you have a question about a specific aspect of Trending Tool, you can type key words in the Search tab of the online help. Trending Tool then displays the sections of the online help related to your query.
Clicking on the Help button in dialog boxes in Trending Tool opens an online help page explaining how to use these boxes. Dialog boxes also feature a ? button in the top left-hand corner of the title bar. This button enables you to obtain information on each of the controls contained in the dialog boxes.
To use this function:
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Click on the ? button in the top left-hand corner of the dialog box title bar. This causes the shape of the mouse pointer to change.
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Click on one of the dialog box's controls in order to display a small context-sensitive help window related to the selected control.
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Click anywhere on the interface to close the context-sensitive window.
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Information Contained in the Help
The online help is the quickest way to help you carry out the tasks you regularly perform to adjust your equipment. It enables you to find and quickly refer to the information you need to accomplish your task.
The Trending Tool online help comprises the following sections:
Section 1: Connecting Trending Tool to your installation
Your first step will be to connect Trending Tool to your equipment. This section also contains the tools available in Trending Tool to instantly perform your first connection to an installation.
Section 2: Adjusting with Trending Tool
This section explains how to carry out automated installation adjustment. Once you have set up the connection to the equipment, you will learn how Trending Tool can help you to improve your process. The displays, in the form of trend diagrams and functional analyses, give you real-time information about your installation's activity. The impact of your adjustments can be monitored through statistical indicators and measuring tools. You will also learn how to save your recordings in order to analyze how your installation is operating offline.
Section 3: Managing your recordings
The third section presents the Trending Tool functions that enable you to achieve higher performance levels on your installation. By defining a reference cycle and using automatic divergence search, you can identify failures quickly. Calculated variables are performance indicators. They indicate which corrective actions need to be taken according to the production periods you have defined.
This section also contains information about how to print trend diagrams and use Trending Tool results in other applications.
