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Manual for the Real-Time Integrated Weld Analyzer (RIWA) system.

The following system and software requirements are necessary before moving forward with setting up your RIWA System.

RIWA requires a WeldID signals an identifier denoting a weld schedule from the PLC.
RIWA currently supports the following PLC protocols:
- DeviceNet.
- Profinet.
- Ethernet / IP.

RIWA supports additional special functions, depending on which PLC signals are available.
- See RIWA documentation for full details.

To track individual part instances, a Part Counter Number is required for the RIWA system.
- This counter uniquely identifies the specific part instance for any given weld.
- The Part Instance Counter must be sent alongside the WeldID so the RIWA system can properly associate each Weld with its Parent Part.

RIWA includes a user-facing frontend web-application called the RIWA Browser that is served by the RIWA Hub.
- To access the RIWA browser, the RIWA Hub needs to be accessable via the internal network managed by the facility.
If you wish to use the RIWA Browser, you should install our riwa2-ca.pem file onto the target machine (or into Google Chrome directly if using Windows).
- It is recommended that Google Chrome is used exclusively to access the RIWA Browser.

Access to a timeserver is recommended for the RIWA Hub to allow for smoother operations.

The RIWA Hub allows the for Multiple RIWA Clusters to communicate with a single hub.
- This requires all the RIWA Hub's and RIWA Clusters to be on LAN with DNS entries for each machine or static IP's to ensure connection is not lost by DHCP lease expiration.