case packer - PLC Programming & Automation

MES Handshakes: Work Order Down, Result Up, and the Acknowledgement Nobody Designs

Five stages drawn left to right showing a finished pallet moving from the rung that counts it, through the result area in the controller, the OPC UA server, the MES adapter and into the MES, with four numbered red break points marking where the result or its acknowledgement can be lost

MES Handshakes: Work Order Down, Result Up, and the Acknowledgement Nobody Designs The MES was unreachable from 01:40 to 05:00 and case packer CP-3 ran the whole way through it. Eighteen pallets came off in those 200 minutes, 864 cases, and when the MES came back it had a record of one of them. So, … Read more