In this project a professional error simulation system was developed, to observe the behavior of elevator control devices produced. The project was carried out in 2004 at the company Rudolph Logic Systems GmbH located in Hildesheim-Germany. The company was dealing with the development and production of electronic assemblies for customers in the fields of measurement, safety, lighting, telecommunication technologies, control systems as well as sensor technology.

  The system was utilized by the quality assurance to simulate different kinds of errors. In addition, the system included a hardware test device that was also developed, to provide the possibility testing the light barriers in real time. The tests the operator could perform were:

• If the Self-check of the device passed

• Checking the relais (i.e. output)

• Monitoring the output of the optocoupler component

• Enable/Disable drive protection

• Memory error test

• Reset the device

• Testing different RPMs

• Enabling/Disable sensors

• Testing different frequencies

• Speed simulation

• All options were executed by specific error codes

• Windows NT 4.0

• Visual Studio 6.0

• MPLAB IDE from Microchip

• C++, Assembly, MFC library

• Microchip PIC18F452 micro-controller

• Language of the user interface: German