The Instrument Interface Adapter module will allow you to capture data from raw data files, serial ports, and others. Equipment or devices were previously attached to a computer where these raw data files are stored during inspection or assembly operations. However, through Instrument Interface, data is being directly captured from some serial devices such as measurement gauges and barcode readers.

Sample Raw Data CSV file

File Monitoring & Parsing

Some equipment or devices only allow data capturing through a file format such as CSV, text file, etc. In this case, the Instrument Interface module makes the process easy given that the service continuously monitors the file, captures data, and stores it in the centralized database. While the data is being transferred to the database, alerts can be modified if it abides the business rules.

The Parsing engine is a powerful feature of instrument interface. The text file formats, or the separated files,  are read and then converted into more useful data that will be stored in the database with related structure where values can be captured using SQL queries. This module includes parsing templates that contain textual data with parsing boxes that define the values that are to be extracted and converted to numeric data or Boolean values.

Benefits