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DDE Server User’s Guide Chapter One - Introduction •••• 1
Chapter One - Introduction
Welcome
The PMCS Network and Device Configurator with DDE Server is the heart of a
POWER LEADER
TM Power Management Control System (PMCS), a tool that helps
you increase productivity, reduce downtime, and improve power quality by
automatically collecting the wealth of data available from devices in your power
network. You select data to monitor and configure the PMCS DDE Server to
communicate with the selected devices in your system. The PMCS DDE Server
collects the requested data and supplies it to your choice of software applications for
analysis and trending.
The information gathered by the PMCS DDE Server, when analyzed by the
appropriate client software, provides you with the following benefits:
• Improved power quality — Identify sources of “dirty” power,
otherwise invisible, and take corrective action to save wear, tear, and
possible damage to critical equipment.
• Faster corrective maintenance — Quickly pinpoint the root causes of
problems using time-stamped alarms and event-sequence logs.
• Higher productivity — Free up maintenance and repair personnel to
perform other duties.
• Less downtime — Identify and correct problems before they lead to
loss of power and/or costly damage to loads such as production
equipment and computers.
• Increased safety — Provide a central source of information, reducing
the need for physical contact with equipment and shop-floor presence.
The PMCS DDE Server collects and communicates metering, status, event, and
alarm data from metering, control, and protection devices on the network to other
PMCS software tools, such as third-party HMI development tools, Event Logger, or
Waveform Capture. The data can easily be imported into spreadsheets, such as
Microsoft Excel, for analysis and presentation.
The PMCS DDE Server allows you to collect data from any PMCS-compatible
device; you can also custom-configure your own device types to accommodate
additional third-party devices.
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1 The PMCS DDE Server can be configured to collect data from any device that supports Modbus RTU register-based communications.