A data collector for route inspection based on palm handheld in industry

Information management of equipments is a crucial component in enterprise resource plan (ERP) and data acquisition of equipment condition is the basis of information management system in enterprise. For most medium and small equipments, route inspection is the main method of condition information achievement. In this paper, condition information is divided into measurement information, display information and observation information. A data collector based on Palm handheld is developed to attain display and observation information. Acquired data is gathered to the route workstation in the spot. Then, each workstation uploads the data to the higher database server automatically, to share all the data in the range of whole enterprise. Results show that this data acquisition system enhances the efficiency of route inspection, provides support to discover the abnormity of machines and helps technicians to master the current condition of equipments timely.