About Trends

CIMPLICITY provides you with extensive capabilities to trend data that is in several different formats.

You can trend:

• Runtime values
• Data from a CIMPLICITY Database Logger
• Data from a .csv file
• Data from a reference file that was created during runtime and can be recalled and displayed. This reference trend can be displayed and compared with other comparable data.
• Arrays
• Historian Lines

CIMPLICITY provides even more capability by letting you display a combination of runtime values and logged data in the same trend chart.

You, or a user, can:

• Display trends with:
• Multiple Y-axes so a user can display different parameter types in the same chart
• Data from different time periods so a user can compare different production periods in the same chart.
• Different time duration so that a user can compare production periods of differing length in the same chart.
• Auto update enabled so that the most recently logged data is automatically retrieved from disk while the trend is displayed.
• Zoom and pan through logged data to locate data of particular interest.
• Compare static values with a slider that updates a legend with actual values.
• Display long time periods in compressed format where the plotted data is the average, minimum, maximum, first, or last element from a sample.