The industry is now entirely dependent on computer systems in various parts of the
organization. As systems become more powerful the opportunities for increased control and
precision grows. The more defects and faults that can be detected before delivery, more
customer satisfaction is obtained which leads to fewer unnecessary costs connected to, for
example, recalls. Of course, this is desirable from the industry and leads to higher demands
for information systems.
This report discusses the opportunities to increase the measuring frequency of an existing
industrial realtime system running on a PC with Windows as operating system that is
designed for test runs and measurements of engines and transmissions. Limitations that
comes with using a nonreal time operating system in a real time industrial application is
cleared up. The option for real time communication that HiMacs uses, developed by
Beckhoff Automation, is also described.
The project was investigative and various proposed solutions were developed and compared
to each other to achieve the most reliable solution.