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Comments MPE Activity or
Term MPT Process or
Term
MPT does not have an equivalent to the MPE concept of a
Specimen. Specimen,
Specimen
Geometry, Domains No equivalent
In MPE, a Specimen is information about the physical thing being
tested. It indicates the geometry type and various physical
characteristics of the article under test. Specimens are useful when
you need one test design to work for specimens of different
geometry types (for example, round vs. rectangle vs. hollow round).
The specimen geometries can provide different calculations for
each geometry type (for example, Area).
Specimen geometries are categorized into Domains. A test
definition can specify which Domain it works in, and thus limit which
specimen geometries are appropriate for that test.
When the user is not interested in using this feature, they can use
the Generic domain.
MPT does not have this user management capability. User Management No equivalent
MPE supports privileges and roles to limit what different users can
do. The built-in roles are Administrator, Engineer, and Operator.
8.3.0 Control Panel and Options
Comments Feature
In MPT and MPE, the channel counters are maintained within the controller and
persisted with the test run. Channel Counters
However, in MPT they are displayed on the main control panel, and are inserted into
selected log messages.
The equivalent action for MPE is to use signal meters with the channel segment count
signals. This can get awkward for large channel-count systems.
In MPT, these allow the operator to see progress through the test. Sequence counters
can be driven from a repeat counter on a process, or pass or segment counters within
a process. They are recorded in selected message log entries (for example, Stop). Sequence Counters
In MPE, these have been partially implemented in the context of the Test Progress
Table runtime control. They are implemented for some of the command activities (for
example, Time History Output and Cycle). However, there are some activity types
that do not make use of this yet.
In MPT, Channel and Sequence counters are logged with various messages (principally
messages related to the test stopping). Logging Counters
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8.0 Appendix A: MPE for MPT Users