The signal group feature provides more clarity from a technological point of view.

Open the group area by clicking on the Groups tab in the I/O Manager.

An arbitrary number of signals from different data sources, modules or interfaces can be assigned to a group. This provides a more comprehensive view on technological relationships. However, it is your choice whether signals of the same type are to be grouped, e.g. all temperatures, all pressures etc., or to group all signals of a machine or technological device. Of course, a signal can be assigned to multiple groups.

Once you have created groups, you have the choice to get the signals displayed in the signal tree of the ibaPDA client, sorted by groups.

The group assignment of the signals and the group names are stored in the data file (*.dat). Hence, they are available in ibaAnalyzer too and you may have the signals displayed in the signal tree, sorted by groups.

A group can also be configured as a so called vector signal. Vector signals consist of a number of related signals, such as the signals of a flatness measurement system or the different zones of a temperature scanner. Vector signals are stored in the DAT file and can be used in ibaAnalyzer for 2D-top view or 3D representation.

In ibaQPanel, vector signals can be used for online 2D top view representation in the trend graph.