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Hi!
I have a customer that is starting to talk about two things for the future. He has only mentioned them but I want a head start before he starts to ask questions.
The scenario is that we have several production lines that I'm in the making of commisioning a statistics system based on s7-1200 and WinCC Flexible 2008 RT with archives.
1. The lines produce products with barcodes. He's talking about having a barcode scanner that will tell my system (s7-1200) what product they are currently producing on that line. So I guess I need a barcode scanner, but can anyone point me out to the right direction on what to look after. I have seen barcode scanners that remember a barcode and make a output signal when it reads it again. But here we are talking about connection an individual barcode to a product and name in my s7-1200. Anyone have knowledge on what barcode scanner to look for? I guess it's not just a regular one but a more advanced and it would be connected through a network (modbus tcp or rtu?).
2. He wan't product displays to display the lines PPM. Ofcpurse it should be cheep (as always), but it would be good if it is connected through modbus tcp (or similar) since I have switches on every line but only a few wires to connect for signals to/from the s7-1200. Anyone know a good brand or where to start looking.
Thanks for suggestions
/Tim
I have a customer that is starting to talk about two things for the future. He has only mentioned them but I want a head start before he starts to ask questions.
The scenario is that we have several production lines that I'm in the making of commisioning a statistics system based on s7-1200 and WinCC Flexible 2008 RT with archives.
1. The lines produce products with barcodes. He's talking about having a barcode scanner that will tell my system (s7-1200) what product they are currently producing on that line. So I guess I need a barcode scanner, but can anyone point me out to the right direction on what to look after. I have seen barcode scanners that remember a barcode and make a output signal when it reads it again. But here we are talking about connection an individual barcode to a product and name in my s7-1200. Anyone have knowledge on what barcode scanner to look for? I guess it's not just a regular one but a more advanced and it would be connected through a network (modbus tcp or rtu?).
2. He wan't product displays to display the lines PPM. Ofcpurse it should be cheep (as always), but it would be good if it is connected through modbus tcp (or similar) since I have switches on every line but only a few wires to connect for signals to/from the s7-1200. Anyone know a good brand or where to start looking.
Thanks for suggestions
/Tim