Customers that make consumer products or provide consumer entertainment cover a wide variety of uses. They provide a perfect example of how many different types of companies can take advantage of DAQFactory to make their lives easier and their jobs more efficient.

For example, one company provides rigging services for concerts and other events. They use DAQFactory connected to strain gauges to ensure that they don't overload any particular pick point while raising the truss structure. The fast real-time display combined with standard HMI features like changing colors of components or screen backgrounds when values go out of range allow the riggers to quickly make adjustments without doing any damage or risking injury from an overloaded system.

Another customer uses DAQFactory on a test cycle to provide uniform testing of new bicycling components. In this case, DAQFactory's support for higher acquisition speeds was key. The real-time graphing of performance data was another important feature that DAQFactory provided with ease.

Yet another customer uses DAQFactory to test the throttles on electric golf carts. The system drives a stepper motor that moves the pedal through full range all the while measuring the resistance through the throttle potentiometer. The entire test is driven by DAQFactory scripts which also evaluate the results and display the pass/fail status of 10 different tests. The background color of the screen is even changed to indicate overall pass/fail status. The whole test runs in 2 seconds, acquiring about 5000 data points, displaying a graph with the data and thresholds for each of the tests, and logging the data. A UPC scanner is used to assign the file names for each batch, allowing easy organization of the data for any post-test analysis.

And yet another customers uses DAQFactory to simply count cars entering the facility. DAQFactory provides hourly, daily, weekly totals allowing the customer to evaluate staffing needs and to provide usage reports to the higher ups.

The uses of DAQFactory are limited only to the imagination. If you need to collect information or control a real world device with a computer, then DAQFactory can probably help. Feel free to contact us if you'd like to discuss your application. We can probably provide you with the solution.

Here are a few of the companies in the consumer product and entertainment fields that use DAQFactory:

• CTL Electronics, Inc.
• Five Points Production Services
• IDbike
• Iwerks Entertainment
• ITW Technology Center
• L. M. Watts Furniture
• Lockhart State Park
• The Buccaneer Hotel
• Raynor Garage Door