Recipe management

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filou
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Recipe management

Post by filou »

Hi,

I would appreciate your opinion and advice:

My customer has 3 independent machines. Each machine has 1 PLC FX3U and 1 operator panel iXTA70 (serial communication between the panel and the PLC). Here attached you will see a picture with an overview.

Currently, the user save and load the recipe on each operator panel.

But now, these 3 machines work together.
In the futur, the customer would only handle the recipes (save / load or delete) from 1 operator panel.
So 1 operator panel will receive or send data to the 2 others.
(During the operation save or load for example)

What is the best and cheapest solution to realize this need?
(For example: Ethernet Modbus TCP/IP or OPC UA ???)

Thank you
Philippe
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mark.monroe
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Re: Recipe management

Post by mark.monroe »

Hi filou,

I think the easiest way would be for you to make the HMI that the operator is going to save/load recipes on an OPC UA server, and have the other two HMI's as UA clients.

Then when the recipe is loaded/saved on the HMI that is acting as the OPC server you can have it set the tag values in the two other units based on the recipe they loaded.
Best Regards,
Mark Monroe

Beijer Electronics, Inc. | Applications Engineer

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