E.4 Linking a Joining Result and Joining Trace

The following figure illustrates an example to reference a point of interest (such as Final Torque, Final Angle, etc.) to a given trace sample in two different ways based on the use cases.

The Trace model is defined to have same number of trace points for different trace samples for a given Joining trace.

The following example represents a result generated from a two-step joining program and the reference of a specific point of interest is mapped from second step result to a second step trace based on TracePointIndex.

In some cases, a point of interest (Example: Final Torque point, etc.) could be an available value in the Trace sample array and in that case, the system can provide a specific index value in the ResultValueDataType structure using the TracePointIndex property.

In some cases, when a given point of interest (Example: Final Angle, Final Torque, etc.) is not available in the Trace sample array, an additional property TracePointTimeOffset can be used to map the given sample using the StartTime, StartTimeOffSet (of a given step) and TracePointTimeOffSet.