Developed in LabVIEW Real-Time, INERTIA allows users to easily configure its real-time engine through a simple and intuitive user interface while allowing simple LabVIEW screens to provide the operator interface.

• Channel/variable support of analog inputs, analog outputs, digital inputs, digital outputs, calculated channels, modbus, and user-defined variables.
• Real-time alarming with variable alarming limits, delayed tripping, multiple priorities and user configurable alarm events.
• Digital control PIDF loops with variable gains, loop rates, integral limits, amplitude control, and bumpless transfers.
• Multi-file, triggered data logging
• Profile generation with ramping, dwells, waveforms, and time-based data playback.

The INERTIA Configuration Utility allows users to define the operation of the real-time engine by defining the various sequences that will be performed. INERTIA sequences consists of many standard functions such as:

INERTIA Application Review
The INERTIA control system is a multi-purpose control system that excels in providing a flexible yet powerful real-time control and data acquisition environment.

Test Rig Configuration
The INERTIA real-time engine allows for up to 4 computers to communicate and control it at one time with each running a fully independent test profile and independent control loops.

I/O Management
The channel and test variable management features provide an easy method of entering input
and output channels as well as specifying general test parameters. The INERTIA software incorporates many variable types including:

With INERTIA's many built-in system variables users have immediate access to the real-time engine's PIDF control loops, block cycle generators, amplitude controllers, and peak/valley analyzers.

Alarm Management
INERTIA's Real-time alarms can monitor any system variable or input and perform any user specified sequence of operations when tripped. Each alarms has many settings including: variable high and low limits, a delayed trip, and one of three priorities.

Test Profiles and Commands
INERTIA's test profiles provide a powerful and flexible method to configure the real-time engine's general test, control, and alarm sequence as well as the engine's block cycle generator, PIDF control loops, data logger, and many other internal engine features.

The INERTIA real-time engine can support four independent test sequences each with their own main sequence and sub-sequences. Each sequence is built through simple pop-up dialog boxes from the various INERTIA commands, such as:

• Test Sequence: A new sequence of commands run only during this test.
• Data Logging: A set of channels and variables to log during this test - with variable log rate, triggered logging, and auto-segmenting of data files.
• Maintenance: A list of maintenance items that are monitored during the test and can stop the test automatically or simply inform the operator.
• Start, Stop, and Restart Screens: Custom screens that are shown when the test is started, stopped and restarted. These screens allow the operator to enter specific test information such as part number, comments, etc. This information is stored with the test data and is continually updated each time the test is restarted.

For more information on the INERTIA Test Automation Software, please contact our office.