SiPAT Interface

Introduction

Eigenevctor Research's PLS_Toolbox and Siemens' SiPAT product can be used together for deployment of multivariate analysis models in process control applications. This integration utilizes Mathworks' Matlab and functionality built into SiPAT to run custom Matlab functions. These functions can include calls to PLS_Toolbox functions.

The following discusses the PLS_Toolbox-specific configuration and provides example scripts which can be used to quickly get SiPAT and PLS_Toolbox integrated.

Licensing

Note that the PLS_Toolbox license requires that, unless special site licensing arrangements are made, you must obtain a separate PLS_Toolbox license for each instance of any PLS_Toolbox code you wish to deploy. Special licensing options are available. See the Eigenvector Website for more information.

Installation and Basic Configuration

SiPAT Configuration

The user is directed to the Siemens documentation for details on configuration of SiPAT for use with Matlab. The discussion below describes some of the PLS_Toolbox-specific considerations of this configuration.

Matlab and PLS_Toolbox Configuration

With Matlab already installed (as per The Mathworks installation instructions), PLS_Toolbox can be copied onto the target computer using any of the available file types as described in the standard installation instructions. The primary differences from the standard installation will be that you will create two special files and place these files into the PLS_Toolbox/utilities folder on the target computer:

1. Create a text file named evrilicense.lic and put your license code (available from the Eigenvector Research download page) as a single line in that file. You can also obtain a evrilicense.lic file from the Eigenvector Helpdesk.
2. Create an empty text file named evrinetwork.lic. This file will instruct PLS_Toolbox to ignore installation errors and run without warnings (necessary when calling PLS_Toolbox functions from within SiPAT.)