®
DPC/TRACK
™
Software
Users Manual
PN 602599
November 1996 Rev.2, 4/98
© 1996, 1997, 1998 Fluke Corporation, All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A.
All product names are trademarks of their respective companies.
Table of Contents
Chapter
1
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Overview.............................................................................................
Introduction......................................................................................................
Conventions .....................................................................................................
The Fundamentals............................................................................................
Databases, Records, Fields, and Forms .......................................................
Terminology ................................................................................................
In a Nutshell.....................................................................................................
Tag ID Breakdown ..........................................................................................
Requirements ...................................................................................................
Installation .......................................................................................................
Floppy Disk Installation Instructions ..........................................................
CD-ROM Installation Instructions ..............................................................
Pentium Floating Point Correction ..................................................................
Getting Support................................................................................................
How to Contact Fluke ......................................................................................
DPC/TRACK Essentials.....................................................................
Introduction......................................................................................................
Starting the Program ........................................................................................
Logging In .......................................................................................................
Security ............................................................................................................
The Main Menu ...............................................................................................
Main Menu Buttons .........................................................................................
About the Sample Records ..............................................................................
Tutorial: Learning the Basics..........................................................................
Searching for Records......................................................................................
Sorting Records ...............................................................................................
Interpreting Data ..............................................................................................
Printing Reports ...............................................................................................
Creating & Deleting Records...........................................................................
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Creating Records.........................................................................................
Deleting Records.........................................................................................
Changing Data.................................................................................................
With Respect to Tag IDs and Serial Numbers.................................................
About the Interface..........................................................................................
Main Menu..................................................................................................
Tabs ..........................................................................................................
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Searching for Records ......................................................................
Introduction .....................................................................................................
Quick Search ...................................................................................................
Searching for Procedures ............................................................................
Related Concepts ........................................................................................
Wildcard Searching .........................................................................................
Search Operators & Field Types.................................................................
Scalar Fields................................................................................................
Arrayed Fields.............................................................................................
Data Order .......................................................................................................
Graphs & Reports..............................................................................
Introduction .....................................................................................................
Generating Graphs...........................................................................................
Printing Reports...............................................................................................
Calibration Cert...........................................................................................
Test Detail...................................................................................................
Instrument Detail ........................................................................................
Last Test Done ............................................................................................
Test Equipment ...........................................................................................
Pass / Fail List.............................................................................................
Pass / Fail by Category ...............................................................................
Reverse Traceability ...................................................................................
Scheduler ....................................................................................................
Printing Records..............................................................................................
Calibration Sheets ...........................................................................................
Testing................................................................................................
Introduction .....................................................................................................
Test Scheduling ...............................................................................................
Scheduled Testing.......................................................................................
Unscheduled Testing...................................................................................
The Test Scheduler .....................................................................................
The “Mark for Load” Concept ....................................................................
The Calibrator Manager ..................................................................................
Setup vs Test Procedure ..................................................................................
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Testing with Calibrators...................................................................................
Unloading ....................................................................................................
Loading........................................................................................................
Testers Input ....................................................................................................
As-Found and As-Left Tests............................................................................
Switch Testing vs.
Instrument Testing ................................................................................
Manual Testing ................................................................................................
Troubleshooting...............................................................................................
Qualifier Errors............................................................................................
Calibrator Diagnostics .................................................................................
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Creating & Deleting ...........................................................................
Introduction......................................................................................................
Creating Records .............................................................................................
Primary Fields .............................................................................................
Creating Tag ID Records.............................................................................
Creating Test Results Records.....................................................................
Creating Test Equipment Records...............................................................
During an Unload....................................................................................
During Manual Testing ...........................................................................
Within the Test Equipment Database......................................................
Creating Procedure Records ........................................................................
Deleting Records .............................................................................................
Deleting Tag ID Records.............................................................................
Deleting Test Results Records.....................................................................
Excluding Test Results ................................................................................
Deleting Test Equipment Records...............................................................
Deleting Procedure Records ........................................................................
Rebuilding & Deleting Sample Records..........................................................
Rebuilding ...................................................................................................
Deleting .......................................................................................................
Changing Data ...................................................................................
Introduction......................................................................................................
Overview..........................................................................................................
Data in the Tag ID Database............................................................................
Primary Tag ID Database Field ...................................................................
Other Tag ID Database Fields .....................................................................
Data in the Test Results Database....................................................................
Reconciliation of “Orphan” Test Results.........................................................
Data in the Test Equipment Database..............................................................
Data in the Procedure Database .......................................................................
Renaming Procedures..................................................................................
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