From the deeps of the oceans to the deserts of Mars, VEE Pro is being used to collect data, provide automated testing and to construct remote command and telemetry interfaces. In everyday environments, it can be found at the heart of manufacturing, quality control and industrial data analysis and management systems. VEE Pro: Practical Graphical Programming introduces the fundamentals of Visual Engineering Environment Programming providing tools for writing programs for data acquisition; test-data processing; and process control. Each of the 18 modules introduces new programming objects, concepts or techniques that can be presented in a whole-group session or studied privately prior to the labs in the classes proper. Readers will see the power and flexibility of VEE Pro in action in special labs of increasing complexity based around the monitoring and control of a virtual vehicle radiator. VEE Pro: Practical Graphical Programming will provide the complete and easy-to-use reference you need to get the most out of the program.

Autorentext

Both authors are former members of the faculty of Northeastern University, Boston; they have more than five years experience of VEE-based program development in academic and industrial environments. They have tested previous formulations of this text on their classes and refined the book accordingly. Robert Angus is an author of Planning, Performing and Controlling Projects 3/e Prentice Hall (2003) and of Math at Work: Book 1, A Review of Arithmetic Prentice Hall (1999).

Klappentext

This book is written based upon VEE Pro Version 6.2. It contains eighteen lessons and six appendixes. The labs within the lessons introduce ActiveX support, MATLAB® functionality and display capabilities, and support for the new GPIB converters. VEE Pro Version 6.2 is backwards compatible to at least VEE version 5.01. The labs of all eighteen lessons included in this book have been verified, opened, and run in versions 5.01, 6.01, and 6.2. Programs that work in versions 6 will work similarly in versions 5. Previous editions of this book have been used successfully with three groups of students applying VEE to laboratory experiments, manufacturing systems, and process-control applications. VEE Pro is popular among technicians, technologists, and design engineers as well as with engineers and scientists. We have prepared this book with the former group in mind. For those of you who are interested in learning VEE Pro in greater depth than is presented in this book or are designing complex analysis and monitoring systems, there are four excellent books: . VEE Pro User's Guide; Chapter 12 (Platform Specifics and Web Monitoring) . VEE Pro User's Guide; Additional Lab Exercises (Appendix A) . VEE Pro Advanced Programming Techniques . Agilent IO Libraries Installation and Configuration Guide for Windows Recent improvements from Agilent can be accessed via the www.agilent.com Web site. The latest VEE Pro developments and on-line HELP are included as well.

Inhalt

Lesson 1 - The VEE Pro Development Environment Lesson 2 - Preparing and Testing a Program Lesson 3 - Controlling and Communicating with Instruments Lesson 4 - Controlling Real Instruments Lesson 5 - Analyzing and Displaying Test Data Lesson 6 - Manipulating Arrays, To/From Files, and Statistical Properties Lesson 7 - Working with Records Lesson 8 - Working with Databases and Operator Interfaces Lesson 9 - Creating Spreadsheets and Reports Lesson 10 - Practicing Process Monitoring via the Vehicle Radiator Lesson 11 - Using VEE Pro to Create User Functions Lesson 12 - Using VEE Pro for Application Simulations Lesson 13 - Functions, Relations and Filtering Lesson 14 - Using and Applying VEE Pro Library Functions Lesson 15 - Using the Sequencer to Create, Pass, and Compare Data Lesson 16 - Logging, Storing, Selecting, and Analyzing Data Lesson 17 - Applying Graphical Operator Interfaces and Matlab® Lesson 18 - Improving VEE Pro Program Productivity Appendix A - Menus, Buttons, the Mouse, and Data Flow Appendix B - Partial Programming Sequences Appendix C - Virtual Devices and Instruments Appendix D - Definition of Technical Terms Appendix E - Introducing Objects, Icons, and Features Appendix F - Agilent VEE 7.0 Features Bibliography.