The current project i am looking into from management is to display buggy capacity on a message board to allow the lift truck driver determine which machine needs the raw materials first. We are having alot of issue with machine downtime becuase the driver pull material to the wrong machine first.The product is feed from a buggy into a j-box. The jbox is not big enouch to fit a whole buggy worth of product because of space constaints
There is a total of 6 production lines. Each line has a 5/05 or micrologix 1100 plc hooked to the ethernet. The product will be read with a 0-10 volt ultrasonic sensor,(banner q45 series) Each plc will have the sensor logic included to scale the photo eye and determine the low and empty states and how long the machine was down for no product.
I have planned on using a microlgix 1100 to recieve the data from the various lines and to transfer the data to the board through the serial port to the message board(possibly ezautomaiton marquee.)
I would like any help on the best way to setup up this type of network.
I would also ask for any information on displaying information to
a message board with ascii.
thanks
There is a total of 6 production lines. Each line has a 5/05 or micrologix 1100 plc hooked to the ethernet. The product will be read with a 0-10 volt ultrasonic sensor,(banner q45 series) Each plc will have the sensor logic included to scale the photo eye and determine the low and empty states and how long the machine was down for no product.
I have planned on using a microlgix 1100 to recieve the data from the various lines and to transfer the data to the board through the serial port to the message board(possibly ezautomaiton marquee.)
I would like any help on the best way to setup up this type of network.
I would also ask for any information on displaying information to
a message board with ascii.
thanks