Providing a condensed "engineering" report format

[RichardPfr]

Note

This post is supposed to be a collection of ideas and a place to discuss them, whether these ideas are feasible or not. For the actual development of this see pyroll-project/pyroll-report#19

Idea

As was hinted at in recent discussions a more condensed report format may be necessary which, in contrast to the current report, only shows the most substantial dimensions. As an "engineering" report it should provide a quick overview over the most needed dimensions, optimally also in graphically form. If more informations are needed one can still decide to output the current "scientific" format which contains all dimensions, as is the case currently.

One limitation of this might necessary be that this "engineering" report is less flexible and more static. The dimensions to be shown may need to be set beforehand and therefore may not be able to be changed easily. While the "scientific" one extends dynamically with additional packages beeing loaded, an "engineering" one like this might not.
This is all to be seen when developing it though.

Question

For this reason we ask you, what...

• ... features you want to see
• ... ideas you have
• ... and contents you think such an "engineering" report definitely should have

Below we already gathered some ideas from our side.
Please feel free to also give us your opinion on any ideas we or others posted.

[RichardPfr]

Here some features, ideas and contents to be included in such a report from our/ my side:

possible features

• show dimensions in engineering units (see Add Non-SI Unit Display pyroll-report#8 and Introduction of Pint for quantities and units #35)
• output graphs for all chosen dimensions (below)
• option to reformat the report to be optimised for printing on A4
• make the web interface of the report more interactive
  • pass/ groove figures as frames in an animation like here

contents

• roll forces
• roll-/ motor torque (after gear reductions)
• motor power usage (with power usage diagrams?)
• elongation

[sag-kalibreur]

Here are some features that I consider to be important information:

• engineering units (input and output)
• strain rates
• strain
• temperature evolution (core, mean, surface)
• roll tourque / motor tourque
• roll load
• motor power
• reductions
• bite angles
• spread coefficients
• elongation / elongation efficiency
• filling ratios
• roll diameter
• working diameter
• velocity / rotational frequency
• heights / widths / cross sections / roll gaps
• plots of incoming and outgoing profil

This data can be used to evaluate a pass sequence in detail. Another good feature would be a conversion to PDF format (A4).
The data can be in tabular form and/or as information in the corresponding plots.

Please share your opinion on this...