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The user can assign Alarms and the method of notification for the currently selected product.
| 1) | Select the Watch SPC worksheet tab. |
| 2) | Select a desired Alarm pop-up bar. |
Local Alarms
| 3) | Set an alarm by clicking the check box adjacent to the desired control/spec limit. To use the suggested Paste Spec limit values, click the Upper and/or Lower spec command buttons. This will auto-populate and check the alarm box for that Spec text box. |
| 4) | Repeat for all desired profile measures. |
| 5) | Select the Alarms command button from the Watch control panel and the global alarms table appears. The spec limits previously selected from the Watch SPC worksheet are populated on this global Alarms table. The user can decide to change the spec limits or add additional spec limits on this table. |
Alarms-Table
| 6) | Select the Alarm – Specification limits check box to have the software enable alarms for the selected parameters. When the specification limits cells are GREEN the spec limits are not violated, if the cells are RED the spec limits have been violated. |
| 7) | Select the Warnings check box to have the software monitor the selected parameters and warn the operator when the parameters are approaching the specification limits. This warning can be based on a % of the spec limit or the parameters CpK limit. When a spec limit alarm is active for a parameter, a yellow circle will appear beside the Present Value (PV) of a parameter. If the value violates the specified warning level, the cell will turn YELLOW. |
| 8) | Select the Alarm Notification check box to activate the Alarms – List dialog box and have the OvenWATCH station alarm. |
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If the optional Light tower or SMEMA Interface is installed with the system, activating the Alarm Notification will also signal these options.
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| 9) | An external Alarm notification can also be activated. To activate, select the check box adjacent to Email and/or Pager options to activate. When either of these options are selected, the associated configuration dialog boxes appears. |
Email Configuration Dialog Box
Pager Configuration Dialog Box
| 10) | Enter the appropriate configuration information. You may have to contact your internal Information System Manager and your Pager service to get the correct settings. |
| 11) | Select the SMEMA Options check box to activate the alarm functions for the optional SMEMA option. |
| 12) | Select the Barcode command button to setup the optional barcodes and missing board detection. |
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If the Barcode alarm setup command button is dimmed, it must be authorized to prior to use. (Refer to Section Software Authorization for additional information)
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| 13) | Select OK to accept the Alarm settings or Cancel to return to the worksheet. |
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