Outline - ActiveFactory™ Software Course

The ActiveFactory™ Software course is a 2-day, instructor-led class that is designed to provide you with a fundamental understanding of the Wonderware ActiveFactory™ suite of Historian client tools. The Wonderware ActiveFactory™ trending, analysis, and reporting software offers a suite of data analysis and reporting clients that maximize the value of data stored in Wonderware Historian. ActiveFactory™ software enables individuals at all levels of an organization to easily access plant and process data through simple point-and-click dialogs.

Objective: Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Retrieve Wonderware Historian data with ActiveFactory™ software
• Use the data in its appropriate context, including historical and real-time trend manipulation, and production-related reporting within Microsoft Excel and Word

Audience: Plant floor operators, managers, and other individuals whose jobs include using Wonderware Historian data for assessment and/or reporting within production or administrative environments.

Prerequisites: The prerequisites for this course are:

• Completion of Getting Started with ActiveFactory™ web tutorial - (Click Here)
• InTouch® HMI Fundamentals of Application Development course
• Knowledge of Wonderware Historian (formerly known as IndustrialSQL Server™ Historian)
• Microsoft Windows
• Manufacturing industry experience

Course Outline:

Module 1 - Introduction
Section 1 - Course Introduction
Section 2 - Introduction to ActiveFactory Software
Section 3 - Introduction to the Wonderware Historian

Module 2 - ActiveFactory Trend
Section 1 - Introduction
Lab 1 - Use ActiveFactory Trend Basic Functions
Lab 2 - Configure Public Groups and Trend Sets
Lab 3 - Configure Time Offsets and Target Regions
Lab 4 - Advanced Properties: Retrieval Styles
Section 2 - Custom Styles in Trend
Lab 5 - Create Retrieval Styles

Module 3 - ActiveFactory Workbook
Section 1 - Introduction
Lab 6 - Use ActiveFactory Workbook Basic Functions
Lab 7 - Use Other ActiveFactory Workbook Functions
Lab 8 - Use the Tag Analysis Wizard
Lab 9 - Create an Hourly-Average Shift Report

Module 4 - ActiveFactory Query
Section 1 - Introduction
Lab 10 - Use ActiveFactory Query
Lab 11 - Use ActiveFactory Query in Excel

Module 5 - ActiveFactory Report
Section 1 - Introduction
Lab 12 - Use Report
Lab 13 - Wildcard Time Options and Report Editing

Module 6 - ActiveX Controls
Section 1 - ActiveX Controls
Section 2 - Common Properties, Methods and Events
Section 3 - ActiveFactory Controls
Lab 14 - Use the ActiveFactory aaHistClientTrend Control