Programmatically starting and stopping my vi at set times

I have a vi that runs during every production shift, however the running and stopping of this vi is currently manual, requiring a user to start and stop the vi at the appropriate times. I would like a way of programming the vi so that it starts every weekday at 6:55am and stops every weekday at 15:05pm. All my while loops run if engine status is TRUE, so I wondered if starting/stopping the engine appropriately would be sufficient. I will need to reinitialise all my values from the previous day – does this happen automatically by stopping/restarting the engine? I would also like to ignore weekends if possible.
I have attached the vi that I would like to automatically start and stop. If anyone knows the best way to program this (slightly messy) vi, then I would greatly appreciate the help.
Thanks to all,
Stuart
Attachments:
HC2 Efficiency Information SW Edit (rev 10).vi ‏1202 KB

My LV8 is having issues this morning and does not want to open the VI I sent you, so I jsut created the loop that I had added. It is very simple, but should get you started. It does not ignore weekends I have not had time to work on that. You could do something like every time the start time is triggered, increment a counter and when the counter hits 6 (saturday if you start counting on monday), do not start the engine and then when it hits 7 reset the counter.
Good luck and post back if you have more issues.
Kenny
Kenny
Attachments:
start stop.vi ‏16 KB

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