AEPOC EZ-Viewer

Overview

The AEPOC EZ-Viewer software interface provides a convenient and intuitive means of interacting with the rod pump controller. It provides four types of information:

1. a control panel display, providing all important well status at a glance, along with the most often used controls in easy push button format.
2. configuration displays, providing graphical configuration for most AEPOC functions,
3. specialized data displays, providing detailed views of trend and historical data,
4. basic hand held data terminal replacement, compatible with all versions of the AEPOC software.

Specifications

Control Panel

Card DisplayThis display shows the current operating mode, card information, current and recent run time, and scrolling information in the upper left quadrant of the window. The upper right quadrant shows user selectable cards. The lower left quadrant displays alarm information and load ranges for the displayed cards. The lower right quadrant provides buttons to access frequently used EZ-Viewer features and issue common commands to the controller.

• Current Status Viewing Area: The information in the current status area includes the current mode of the controller, today's and yesterday's run time, idle time, and cycle information, and any current alarms. It also includes estimated time left in the state if possible, and information about the current card from the controller. This information is updated once per stroke.
• Card Viewing Area: This area allows the user to view the cards currently saved in the controller in any combination or available quantity. All selected cards are retrieved and may be overlaid or displayed sequentially. Descriptive information about each card is included. An auto update feature can be used with current or raw current cards to update the display when new cards are available.

  Engineering unit cards show the final card after all input device conditioning has been applied. Raw cards show the card data as read from the end devices. Cards may be automatically scaled to 0 to 100% engineering unit cards and raw cards.

  The cards can be saved to disk if desired. Colors for card information can be changed for various lighting conditions.

• Alarm and Load Viewing Area: This area has the current alarms in the controller. A clear alarms button will clear the alarms in the controller. The load range on the currently selected card is also displayed. There is a button to download the range to the normal load range registers in the controller when using polished rod load cells.
• Command Area: The commands area provides buttons to start and stop the pumping unit as well as change operating modes of the controller. For less frequently used commands, a pull down lists is available. Each of the other major functions in the EZ-Viewer has an associated button for access. They are also available from the toolbar for users that prefer that interface.

Configuration

Load Alarm Configuration Display

• A setup wizard guides a user through the setup of a new well - configuring the end devices, starting the well, calibrating strain gauge load cells if needed, saving a base stroke, synchronizing position switch inputs to true top of stroke, and setting up the basic operating characteristics of the unit.
• Sample wizard configuration screens are seen with these links: Templates, Site, Communications, Position end device, Load end device, Time, Load calibration, Base stroke, Top of stroke, Pump off rectangle, and Timers
• The EZ-Viewer supports the creation of user defined templates allowing you to set up field or well type specific initialization data that can be easily downloaded when setting up a new well.
• Alarm limits are shown textually and graphically where possible. The actions to take for alarms can be configured at the same time as the limits.
• User programs can be saved locally, edited, and downloaded to the unit for execution.
• Special buttons on configuration screens perform related commands without leaving the screen.
• Sample general configuration screens are seen with these links: Time, Communications, Site, and Library functions
• Sample I/O configuration secreens are seen with these links: Discrete Inputs, Analog to Digital Inputs, Continuous position input devices, Fast position switches, Damped inclinometer input devices, Load cell input devices, and Strain gauge input devices
• Sample alarm and operational state configuration screens are seen with these links: Load alarms, Tagging alarm, Work alarms, Pump off rectangle configuration, Card shape alarms, and Percent runtime
• Trending configuration screens are seen with these links: Trend registers, Stroke and speed trend, Time trend, and General trend
• User programming configuration screens are seen with these links: Stroke interval user program, Time based user program, and User event program
• Scrolling information configuration screens are shown in these links: Scrolling registers and Messages
• Configuration of actions to take on alarms are shown in these links: Data analysis events, Load work events, Analog to digital input alarm or status events, Discrete input alarm or status events, and Control mode events

Data

Event Log DisplayThe AEPOC can be configured to collect thousands of registers worth of information in trends and historical summaries. The data displays present these collected data points to the user in easy to follow tabular or graphical form.

• The Event Log displays the controller's event log one event at a time with Previous and Next buttons to allow the user to navigate forward and backward through the time stamped event history of recent alarm and status changes at the unit to diagnose the cause of problems.
• Historical daily and monthly gauge off summaries show average fluid stroke length, surface stroke length, SPM, total cycles, fluid produced, and pumping unit time summaries.
• Trend Displays show collected stroke, cycle, time, and high speed trend data in overlaid or x-y format.
• Register Displays allow you to configure your own pick list of data you want to look up that is scanned on a stroke basis from the controller.
• Sample data displays can be seen with these links: Cards, Trends, XY Trends, Historical, Registers, and Event log

HHDT

Scrolling DisplayFinally, the EZ-Viewer also provides an emulation mode that simulates the Oyster Hand Held Data Terminals. This permits an operator to use the EZ-Viewer for wells with newer software in the full graphical mode of operation and still maintain compatibility with units that have not yet been upgraded.

Other initial screenshots can be seen with these links: Splash, Initialization, New AEPOC, Scrolling, and Establishing connection.

Import/Export

RTU configuration data including base or reference cards can be saved to or downloaded from the PC to speed up the configuration process. EZ-Viewer also provides a means of saving card and trend data to disk for future reference or analysis in the office. This data can be saved in Comma Separated Variable (CSV) format so the data can be imported into various popular spreadsheets.

Requirements

The EZ-Viewer officially supports released versions 1.29 and later of the AEPOC core software, although various customers have had some luck using portions of it with releases as far back as 1.23. When used on unsupported versions, become familiar with features that have appeared in more recent releases and clearly understand that even though they may appear on the interface, they are not in the controller, and that attempting to select such features may cause problems in the operation of your AEPOC. Where register usage has changed or in rare cases moved, using the interface to change those registers may also cause faulty operation of the controller.

The EZ-Viewer program can be run on recent Microsoft® operating systems such as Windows® 98, Windows® 2000, and Windows® XP.

The video resolution should be at least 800x600 with 256 colors. A serial port is required for communication to the AEPOC. The software is distributed on CD-ROM.

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