Lincoln Electric IM8001 PRODUCTION MONITORING 2.2 - Manual (Page 130)

IM8001 Production Monitoring™ User Manual GLS.1
Glossary
ArcLink® : This is a communications protocol
developed by Lincoln Electric for use in a welding
system. This protocol takes into account specific
needs of a welding system and the interaction of
the multiple components that make up the
network.
Asset : An asset is entry in the Asset Tree on the
left side of the Production Monitoring™ screen.
An asset can be either a single Welding Power
Source or a Group of power sources. In a
manufacturing facility, the asset in Production
Monitoring™ could represent a single power
source, station or line within the plant.
Bandwidth : The amount of information that
wires and cables can handle, just like a pipe full
of water and materials. The pipe can only hold
so much before the flow slows down and
eventually clogs.
Board Serial Number : Each component in an
ArcLink system has a unique number that allows
it to be identified from the other components. In
Lincoln Electric systems, this is used to verify
what component is being referenced in software.
Criteria : A user-supplied piece of information
used to sort or filter the data in a report.
DeviceNet : A standard industrial networking
protocol usually used by a PLC to control
networked devices in a Master/Slave
relationship.
DNS : Domain Name Service used for translating
host names to an IP address so that networked
equipment can be given an alphanumeric name
instead of a number. See Host Name for an
example of what a DNS server does.
E-mail : Electronic Mail, an electronic message
that is transferred over a communications
network, or the Internet.
Ethernet : A telecommunications networking
protocol used to connect computers to each
other.
Firmware : The memory and programming code
within the Welding Power Source that provides
the control program for the Welding Power
Source.
Front End : The “front end” to a software
program is the part of the application with which
you, as the user, interact (e.g., buttons you click,
windows that display).
Host Name : Alphanumeric name that is used to
represent networked equipment at a specific IP
address. An example would be www.google.com
instead of 216.239.37.99.
HTML : Hyper Text Markup Language, the
document format used for web pages on the
Internet.
Intranet : An internal website to your company
that no one on the outside can access unless
given user names and passwords to do so.
IP Address : A number that identifies a device on
the network. This number is a 32-bit numeric
address written as four octets separated by
periods also referred to as “dots.” The numbers
range from zero to 255. An example would be
192.168.1.45.
Latched Alarm : Prevents the Welding Power
Source from making another weld until the alarm
has been acknowledged. This setting can be
utilized for verifying a welding setup before
making another weld.
Module Number : The Welding Power Source
consists of modules that communicate with each
other to create a welding system. The module
number is the name given to each one of these
devices.