Data Acquisition - Slc 5/05

Looking for Data Acquisition software PC based that can collect large amounts of data and manipulate it for various graphs and reports. Must interface to a Slc 5/05

The system consists of a Slc 5/05 with Analog Card controlling a mechanical component life test machine. The system will require taking 20 samples of an analog voltage over 1 cycle. The 5/05 will trigger the system when to collect the data, which will be at specific times during a cycle. There could be as many as 200,000 cycles. One cycle is approx. 1 minute long. The data acquisition system will interface with the Ethernet port on the Slc.

We use Telogers. Website www.telog.com. It is PC based and i believe it will work on a SLC5/05, i am using it on a SLC5/04 right now and it collects large amounts of data.

One very common solution we use because of the ease of modification is something called I/Gear (www.igearonline.com) and then we use the built in reporting services that are supplied with Microsoft SQL Server (http://www.microsoft.com/sql/technologies/reporting/default.mspx).

This gives all the process engineers access to the data through a web based interface and the reports can be exported to different formats through the web interface (PDF, Excel, Word, XML, etc).

If you have a liscense for SQL Server 2000 or greater this would be the most cost effective way to go since the liscense for the reporting services is included.

Darren

Check out WebDock DataPort....works pretty well.

http://www.omega.com/das/dsc.html is one
Keithley Instruments is another