Windmill Software has announced a new version of its Test Sequence software which automates measurement and control tasks by running a text file of commands. No programming knowledge is required. The new version adds many new commands. For example, it can now loop several times through a command sequence; check if a condition is true and act accordingly; wait until a specified amount of data has been collected; show instructions to a user and let a user manually adjust analog outputs.
Test Sequence understands 47 commands for data acquisition and control. Combining these commands lets Test Sequence, perform PID (proportional-integral-derivative) control; watch for alarms and take appropriate action; send key-presses to other Windows programs like Excel; start and stop data logging according to conditions or time of day; change the speed of sampling when alarm thresholds are crossed and ramp values up and down over time. Test Sequence runs under Windows 7, Vista, XP, 98 and 95. It also handles USB and Ethernet hardware monitoring thermocouples, pressure transducers, strain gauges, RTDs, pH transducers and so on.
