Hi we are using odyssey software now for several years and now are looking into getting into oil analysis and infrared and was wondering how many people out there are doing this and if Odyssey is user friendly for doing this and importing oil analysis and infrared readings into .Any advice or thoughts would be greatly appreicated .Thanking you in advance Keith

Keith,

Yes, Odyssey is user friendly about the access for the oil analysis data, and the infrared. The infrared image is stored as an active-x file, and accesible. The oil analysis data must have a script or be one of the "canned" oil labs so that the data is in the right format and will import into Odyssey.

I would caution you though, to think about what you want to do with the oil data. It has been my experiance that you can't beat a man at his own game. And most oil labs (not all but most) have a very compact report that you can't duplicate in Odyssey very easily. Remember that each wear item is a field (measurement) in the database, comments, etc. require seperate fields also.

I believe that the ability to pull stuff like this in is great, and allows the full use of "open architecture" for whatever you want to do with it. However, I never found it to be a real practical application with the oil data.

The infrared image is good for a history tab, if nothing else. It makes the reports look good.

To each his own though. Good luck.

Dave

We have both - oil data imported into Odessy as well as Herguth which provides the compact report available anytime on-line. I have to agree Herguth's report is much easier to see at a glance. E-monitor seems to limit you to plotting one parameter at a time. Maybe there is some way to do it with report-builder but I don't have the time to figure it out.

I'm not involved in importing the data. I think Herguth sends us some electronic data that makes the import a fairly automated process (no manual data re-entry).