UCOS Diagnostics

UCOS provides several tools to help test and troubleshoot running projects.

You can view the current value for each tag associated with a selected device or a user-defined set of tags that can come from multiple devices. Values are updated dynamically.

You can monitor real-time tag values and manually override tag values (subject to security measures).

You can monitor logic as it executes in the UCOS logic processor. User-defined colors indicate current input and output values. By default red indicates a discrete 0 or reset value, green indicates a discrete 1 or set value, and blue indicates an analog value.

Numbers are also used to indicate current actual input and output values: discrete 0, discrete 1, or an analog number.

Setpoint, alarm, and fault values can be entered manually, and commands can be sent.

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There are a variety of built-in "health" tags that can report on the status of various components. And you can monitor the communication status between a workstation and its associated logic processors. This helps the operator diagnose the cause of a communications failure.

Any or all of these perspectives can be viewed individually or simultaneously in multiple windows.

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In addition to the built-in diagnostics views described and illustrated above, you can also build custom diagnostics using UCOS graphic screens. The illustration at left shows several examples including RTU and UCOS Field Control Unit status information.