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I'm use to standard charts, histogram with cpk, xbar, etc.. I'm just not getting the whole datapage thing and the way the carts look.
Then I'd like to extract the raw data so I can use minitab (copy / paste) but I cant figure out how.
I'm not interested in PCDtoExcel since PCD crashes every 20 parts or so ±, even if it didn't the formatting of excel sheets on the reports are useless to me since I need all the results grouped together per feature (copy / paste). I thought datapage would be the answer.

The thing I like about datapage is that it will keep running even if PCD crashes and picks up where it left off. If I could just figure out how to extract the data...
  • I'm use to standard charts, histogram with cpk, xbar, etc.. I'm just not getting the whole datapage thing and the way the carts look.
    Then I'd like to extract the raw data so I can use minitab (copy / paste) but I cant figure out how.
    I'm not interested in PCDtoExcel since PCD crashes every 20 parts or so ±, even if it didn't the formatting of excel sheets on the reports are useless to me since I need all the results grouped together per feature (copy / paste). I thought datapage would be the answer.

    The thing I like about datapage is that it will keep running even if PCD crashes and picks up where it left off. If I could just figure out how to extract the data...
    Make a DATA report, save it to a file (it will be a TXT file) then open it with just about anything.
  • Brilliant!! That was too easy, thank you I feel much better now.

    Another question I have that is not in the help menu index...
    When I set up the database I have options for Read Lock (10) Write Lock (20) and Pages (64), what do these mean?

    I ran 42 pieces and I only have data for 20. Is that because Write Lock was set at 20?
  • Brilliant!! That was too easy, thank you I feel much better now.

    Another question I have that is not in the help menu index...
    When I set up the database I have options for Read Lock (10) Write Lock (20) and Pages (64), what do these mean?

    I ran 42 pieces and I only have data for 20. Is that because Write Lock was set at 20?
    Those values are time values (read & write) and the pages are the amount of memory (I think). I have never messed with ANY of that stuff.

    Question? Were you saving this stuff while looping? If so, you need to put a STATS/UPDATE command at the end of the loop (before it returns) AND you need to go into the F5 set up and UN-MARK the thing that says to use BRACKETS when looping, otherwise it will give you (in the database) P001.X then P001.X[1] and P001.X[2] which is useless for stats. THREE parts, three different variables instead of three parts and a single variable. I never use loops. I mean, you have to un-load & load a new part anyway, it ain't no-big-thang to hit CTRL-Q on the keyboard to make it go again.

    This is what mine is set at and always has been:

    READ=10,WRITE=20,MEMPAGES=4

    Never had an issue with it 'losing' parts.
  • I'm not looping, I agree CTRL+Q is easy enough for me Slight smile

    Not sure why my pages say 20 and yours say 4??? I'll research and report back Slight smile

    EDIT: My '64' matches that of the training .pdf I downloaded. I also see though that it says "The lowest workable value for memory pages is 10 (or 40 KB) and you are only using '4', that is odd.

    Anyway, I don't know what happened but I'm going to try it again next lot. This time I was multi-tasking and doing some offline stuff at the same time, maybe PCD and / or datapage doesn't like that. We'll see.
  • Read Lock (10) Write Lock (20) and Pages (64)
    Wait 10 seconds when trying to get a read lock on the db
    Wait 20 seconds when trying to get a write lock on the db
    64 memory pages to use with caching the data (makes things go faster).
    STATS/UPDATE within the LOOP will cause a new transaction time stamp. You would probably not want the []'s in that case.
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