Compliance reporting in SCADA systems - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Compliance Reporting in SCADA Systems

📖 Scenario: You work in a factory that uses a SCADA system to monitor machines. The factory must report compliance data about machine statuses every day to meet safety rules.This project helps you create a simple compliance report from machine data.

🎯 Goal: Build a small program that collects machine status data, sets a compliance threshold, filters machines that meet the threshold, and prints a compliance report.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a dictionary with machine names and their status scores

Add a compliance threshold variable

Filter machines that meet or exceed the threshold

Print the list of compliant machines

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Factories and industrial plants use SCADA systems to monitor machine health and ensure safety compliance. Automated reports help managers quickly see which machines meet safety standards.

💼 Career

Understanding how to process and report compliance data is important for roles in industrial automation, operations, and DevOps for manufacturing systems.

1

Create machine status data

Create a dictionary called machine_status with these exact entries: 'Pump1': 85, 'Valve2': 78, 'Conveyor3': 92, 'Sensor4': 70, 'Motor5': 88

SCADA systems

# Create the machine_status dictionary with the given entries
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use curly braces to create a dictionary with the exact machine names and scores.

2

Set compliance threshold

Add a variable called threshold and set it to 80 to represent the minimum status score for compliance.

SCADA systems

machine_status = {'Pump1': 85, 'Valve2': 78, 'Conveyor3': 92, 'Sensor4': 70, 'Motor5': 88}
# Set the compliance threshold to 80
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Just create a variable named threshold and assign it the value 80.

3

Filter compliant machines

Create a list called compliant_machines that contains the names of machines from machine_status whose status score is greater than or equal to threshold. Use a list comprehension with for machine, score in machine_status.items().

SCADA systems

machine_status = {'Pump1': 85, 'Valve2': 78, 'Conveyor3': 92, 'Sensor4': 70, 'Motor5': 88}
threshold = 80
# Create compliant_machines list using list comprehension
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use a list comprehension to check each machine's score against the threshold.

4

Print compliance report

Print the text "Compliant machines:" followed by the compliant_machines list on the next line using two separate print statements.

SCADA systems

machine_status = {'Pump1': 85, 'Valve2': 78, 'Conveyor3': 92, 'Sensor4': 70, 'Motor5': 88}
threshold = 80
compliant_machines = [machine for machine, score in machine_status.items() if score >= threshold]
# Print the compliance report
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use two print statements: one for the label and one for the list.