Many companies rely on experience and ad hoc approaches when preparing a new measurement campaign. ICE-flow helps everyone to work to corporate procedures.
ICE-flow enables the control of the complete test program — from project initiation, finding out which equipment is available and calibrated, to noting where it physically can be found, who used what—and when, to managing hundreds of other time-consuming yet important details. Information from the airframe build, measurement instrumentation, cabling, transducers…can be captured automatically using barcodes or similar approaches. Manual data entry is only performed once.
The ICE-flow environment provides change control notification that can help enforce corporate procedures.
A new test project starts by defining the component and its associated build—and from this point each set-up, every change, and all incoming data will be automatically associated to it. The manager can enter details such as the date the test structure is available, define the project team members and their access authorizations—in fact as much or as little as is needed at the time. Extra fields can easily be added later “on the fly” by any authorized operator.
Multiple test runs are defined by dragging standardized tests and different loads into a sequence of maneuvers.
Each measurement is associated with an individual transducer/cable and is mapped to a specific channel on the recording system. These are also associated with the specific location on the airframe component, and the measurement direction. Real channels, virtual channels and sub-channels are easily set up, as is grouping by name, transducer type, critical locations, rosette, list of channels… At the same time, test sample rates, anomaly limits, are specified, calibration status and values are checked and loaded, and the set-up status is shown as “ready for uploading to the test system.”
Everything is associated with the project, and the audit system tracks who did what, and when.
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