Course Objectives This course is designed to provide the customer with a detailed understanding of the CIMLINE system. The subjects covered in this course are:
	System Components
	System Architecture
	Measurements
	Product & Process Statistics
	MD & CD Controls
	System Tuning
	Recipe Management
	Basic Product Calibration
	Software Maintenance & Troubleshooting

Upon completion of this course, customers can be confident in their ability to get the most out of the CIMLINE system.

Duration
Class begins on Tuesday at 8:30 AM and concluded on Thursday. Fridays are a question and answer period for the students with the instructor.

Pre-requisites
All attendees of this course should have good knowledge of their process and have some familiarity with processing equipment, computer systems, and process controls.

Evaluation
Each attendee of this course will participate in a 60-minute examination. Results of these examinations will be available for customer review. Upon successful completion of the course, a certificate of completion will be issued to all who successfully complete the course work.

Materials
Each attendee will receive a course book containing all course materials and relevant support materials.

Introduction and Greetings
Brief discussion of course objectives. Materials are distributed.

System Components
EGS Gauging Inc. equipment names and what they’re used for. Learn, in detail, about various measurement platforms, scanning platforms, computing platforms, and process interfaces. See what constitutes a complete network based control system and how the EGS Gauging Inc. products interconnect to provide a true linewide measurement and control system.

System Architecture
The basic system components are brought together through a modular software layer to form a complete system. Detailed description of the various system inputs and outputs, timing considerations, and hardware addressing are the main focus of this section. A brief description of the many software sub-systems is also presented.

Measurements
Basic sensor measurements are covered in this section. Typical beta responses curves are presented and Beer’s Law discussed. Calibration curve fitting and error determination are discussed in great detail. Where applicable, a section covering SICAL and same-spot measurement will be added to this discussion.

Product and Process Statistics
The product and process variations present in continuous web processes are discussed. Sources of variation are identified, the CIMLINE system features that ferret out these variations are presented, and plausible solutions are discussed. Each or the CIMLINE system statistical calculations are presented for clarity.

Question and Answer
Open discussion. This time may be used as a review period for materials covered to date.

MD & CD Controls
Thorough review of both Automatic Profile and Nominal controls. Common problems are discussed as well as expected performance levels. Particular attention is paid to tuning variables and long-term performance improvement.

System's Tuning
A brief set of VMS commands begins this section. More VMS material is presented later in the troubleshooting section.

ACL - Advanced Command Language, its basic commands and functionality are presented in this hand's on section. Various exercises in file management, data management, and file editing are performed. Upon completion of this section, users are expected to update some basic control parameters, print a crash dump, patch a data file, etc.

Recipe Management
Description of both "LIVE" and "OFFLINE" recipe utilities are presented. Each recipe function is described in detail, LIST, PRINT, SAVE, LEARN, and DELETE. Every aspect of the file structure is discussed. As an exercise, the users will create and modify recipes as if they were responding to normal production requests.

Basic Product Calibration 90 min
Product calibration discussion opens by reviewing Beer's Law, measurement statistics, and error determination. This is followed by the customer describing their off-line lab techniques. Some sample data sets are handed out and some error analysis is performed on this data. 1'st order curve fitting is then performed on the data and correlation statistics are derived.

Alternative calibration techniques are also presented where high lab or sampling errors are present.

Software Maintenance and Troubleshooting
VMS debugging, backup/restore, and queue management are discussed. How to re-start a print queue, erase queue entries, and other queue management functions are discussed in detail. VMS backup commands are issued by users in a hand’s-on session. Specific attention is paid to STANDALONE backup, DIRECTORY tree backup, and SELECT backup functions.

Question and Answer Session 60 min
Open discussion. This time may be used as a review period for materials covered to date.

Group Problem Solving Session 60 min

Course Cost
$2000 for first student, all others attending the same class is at a $ 200 discount. Course cost does not include travel and living expenses.

Cancellations
There will be a cancellation fee of 20% applied to all students canceling within three weeks of a class and a 50% fee for all "no-shows".

Rescheduling
EGS Gauging Inc. reserves the right to reschedule a class if there are less than three participants.