How do the alarms alert people?

You can define them to send alerts in the following ways:   

  • Popup message in the Kapture Win software when a user completes the measurement of a part.
  • Send an email to one or a group of users.


Where can I start creating alarms?

Alarms are based on measurements and therefore they have a section inside each plan/study page where you will find this button: YlAPPpCiHxxgMxuwb5ZccyuhvuSv-aXC3Q.png


Also, we are able to generate a New Alarm from the left side menu of the home page.


What type of alarms are there?

We have developed the following alarm types so far:

  • An alarm specific to the status of a check/measurement point eg. SPC1 is out of tolerance. 
  • An alarm for the status of the sample measured eg. Any or all of the checks are out of tolerance or NOK.
    more options will be coming in future developments, please contact us for requests.


What is the status of an alarm?

Firstly we must explain the status which exists as far as a part or checks measurement:

  • Numerical values for a Check can be: Intolerance, in the warning limit range, out of tolerance or no value was imputed.
  • List types can be defined in the same way.
  • Boolean or GoNoGo checks are either OK or NOK.

An alarm can be defined to look for measured equal to a status or NOT equal to one. Eg. Where Check 1 is out of tolerance or  Where Check 1 is NOT intolerance.

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4uVL4Nv6LJSO1QpLUtNmusSqXo_ekSVfIw.pngRE-ALERT AN ACTIVE ALARM


  • In phase 1 we developed the possibility to control Check status and send an alert to selected users via an on-screen message and/or via an email. The conditions of the alarms were if the check measurement was OK, NOK or in the warning margin.
  • In phase 2 we integrated the possibility to control all checks in a part and activate an alarm under similar set conditions eg. NOK, OK & warning.
  • In phase 3 we integrated the alarms into Kapture Win (only conditions related to every part measured).
  • We will be implementing other types of Alarm based on statistics and this will be included in the future.


Below we will explain how this feature works.


You start setting up an alarm from the Plan page:


  • Create the alarm selecting "New Alarm" button.
  • Create a name to explain its function eg. Alert all errors in check: G1.
  • Write a description for further understanding of the objective of this alarm.

1. Select a type of Alarm:

  • Check and status: controlling the measurement results on a specific check.
  • Sample status: controlling the overall condition of the parts/samples measured. Possible conditions:
    • The sample is out of tolerances eg. NOK.
    • The sample is within tolerances eg. OK.
    • The sample is on warning area of tolerances eg. Warning

2. Defining configuration of the alarm:

  • "The alarm will alert after": here we define the number of repetitions of the defined quality case to switch on the specif alarm.
  • "The alarm will stop after": here we define the number of repetitions of the defined quality case to switch off the specif alarm.

3. Defining the notification type:

  • "Notify by sample": This option means that the alarm will work and activate counting the times that the condition appears per sample.
  • "Notify by change": This option means that the alarm will work sending an email to the defined user when the alarm appears on the measurements and send a second email when this alarm stops, turning back to good quality status.

 4. Actions: Here we write a specific message related to the alarm. This message will appear on KWin pop-ups and on the emails sent.

  • Users with email: as we can check on the attached image, these users have a little icon (a letter). When need to click on this icon if we want to activate the mailing service.
  • Users without email: they will see this message on a KWin pop-up.

Finally, we click on "Update alarm".