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Many of the DCP
installations are working unattended in areas without any operator
personal. A possible malfunction of peripheral
hardware components or a total crash of the PC itself may cause an
unrealized stop of the production flow and a severe loss of production
time.
In order to overcome this problem we have created a DCP monitoring
system, which is to be installed in a control room environment. The
system communicates as a server with a defined number of clients
and performs the following functions:
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Monitoring
a life sign, check for expiration
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Receive
status and alarm messages from the connected clients
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Execute
operator defined functions depending on the alarm priority like
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Printout
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Acoustic alarm
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Log into database
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