HunterLab EasyMatch QC, User Manual

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EasyMatch QC User’s Manual Version 2.1
Introduction to EasyMatch QC 1-3
Features
The sections below examine some of the most important concepts and features related to operation of
EasyMatch QC.
Jobs
A job is a collection of all the data views (displays) and measurements (standards and samples) that you
use for a particular task, product, or customer. Jobs are the “documents” of EasyMatch QC, analogous
to word processing documents containing text and its formatting or spreadsheet documents containing
fields of data and formulas. If you wanted to transfer a job to another computer or another user who also
has EasyMatch QC, the job file (with a .JSD file extension) would contain all the information needed to
examine and/or reproduce your results.
You can create new jobs for many different reasons, such as to hold data for a certain customer or a
specific product line. Each operator may maintain his own job with his own preferences, or you can
create separate jobs for different operations, such as measuring plastic pellets before extrusion and then
the final extruded product. You can be creative in maintaining and organizing your job files.
You may have multiple jobs open and in use at the same time; each job will be shown as a separate tab
on your screen. You can switch easily between jobs by clicking the tab of the job you wish to see.
To set up a job, you will need to complete the following tasks:
1. Open the new job.
2. Save the job under the desired name. (Long file names and spaces are acceptable.)
3. Configure the desired data views (see the “Data Views” section), including setting the location, size,
shape, and properties of each view on the screen.
4. Read or recall the desired standard and samples into the job and view the results. The number of
standards and samples that can be housed in a single job is virtually unlimited—restricted only by
the amount of memory available on the computer.
It is difficult to “picture” a job file, but a screen capture of a job is provided below as an illustration.