Lincoln Electric IM8001 PRODUCTION MONITORING 2.2 - Manual (Page 16)

WeldScore™ Chapter 1. General Information
IM8001 Production Monitoring™ User Manual 1.3
Traceability
Production Monitoring™ provides you with the ability to report on all the welds that were made on a
specific part number, by a specific operator or using a specific consumable lot code. Before a weld is made,
this information is communicated to the Welding Power Source, in a variety of ways. Every weld that is
made after this is assigned with these ID numbers until a new number is entered. Production Monitoring™
users can generate a traceability report that looks for this ID from all the Welding Power Sources in the
system. Traceability solutions are typically customized to a customer’s specific needs. Please contact
Lincoln Electric for a quotation on your needs.
NOTE | Production Monitoring™ does not support consumable
package tracking for dual wire feeding systems.
WeldScore™
WeldScore™, a new feature available in all third-generation Welding Power Source models (including the
i400, C300, S350, S500 and AC/DC 1000 SD), can be used to support a weld quality control program. It
assigns a score to welds on a 0% to 100% scale that indicates the acceptability of the weld. The score is
based on a comparison to previously trained welding conditions. Any weld with a score of 85% to 90% or
above can be considered, with a reasonable amount of confidence, to be an acceptable weld. WeldScore™
can be used independently on the power source or together with Production Monitoring™. Please refer to
the Power Wave® Manager User Manual for more in-depth information on WeldScore™.
NOTE | WeldScore™ is not a guarantee of quality and is not
intended to replace a quality control system.
Production Monitoring™ Architecture
The Production Monitoring™ system uses a web-based front end (the part that you use to run reports and
set up the application) with a relational database for storing data (weld statistics sent from the Welding
Power Sources). The web-based front end allows users on multiple computers to access the welding data
and generate reports using the Production Monitoring™ application. The main components of the
Production Monitoring™ system are:
ƒ Microsoft SQL Server Express database for storing data sent from Welding Power Sources
ƒ Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Web Server
ƒ IGear Data Transport Utility (DTU): This provides the connectivity from Welding Power Source
to the database on the server computer. This piece of software queries the Welding Power
Sources for information and stores it in the database.
ƒ IGear Web Framework: This provides users with a web portal to the database that enables them
to generate various reports.
You install the Production Monitoring™ application on a single dedicated server computer. This server
computer then communicates with the Welding Power Sources over an Ethernet network. Users can be
anywhere and, as long as they have an Ethernet link to the server computer, they can access the Production
Monitoring™ application.