Zenon 7.20 as LineController
Hello everybody,
i got the challenge to verify which software is the best one to implement a line controlling software for a descrete assambly machine (for example automotive industrie). So i visited the SPS IPC Drives and got in contact with COPA-DATA and zenon. I was very exited about the possibilities that this IDE gives me as a programmer and tried the last two days to implement some code snippets... and here are my questions: I dont know if zenon is the right choice for my challenge:
The recipe manager saves alle recipe data in binary files that are stored in the local folder of the runtime version. My ambition is to store any kind of data in a MS SQL Server. I dont know if this is the right approach with zenon but it is a simple one to share this data with other systems. Is there a possibility to store recipe information in databases instead of binary files?
I do not only want to trace single processes but also the production cycle of a single workpiece with all of its process data. So if a work piece carrier runs into my machine, the machine makes a request to zenon if it is allowed to handle this work piece carrier (the conditions are: routing, status of the work piece etc.). I could handle all this request with VSTA routines and write an answer back to my plc. So my VSTA routine gets data form the plc, makes some look ups in a MSSQL Database, and answers the plc. Is there a better way to handle such requests? In the case of big machines there are many requests and the VSTA routins are not mulithreaded, right?
If a work piece carrier runs from one machine station to the next, there is a trace of timestamps and data i got for my databases. If the user wants to have an overview of this special work piece i want to show him some information in a kind of a table view. Perhaps im blind but i did not found a graphical object in zenon to realise a table view, excluded this one which is used in the recipe manager. I want to have a button and a textfield where the user enters a unique code for his workpiece. After pressing the button a VSTA routine gets all data to this unique number out of the MS SQL database and writes them into this table view. Is there another way in zenon to realize such a function?
This are some of my questions. It would be very helpful if someone could try to answer them so that its getting easier for me to consider the possibilities of zenon. Perhaps zenon is the wrong IDE to write a program for tracing work pieces but its a very good program for tracing processes.
Thank you for your help.
This is a migrated post! Originally posted on 27.04.2016 by user n.kurtenbach. Please be aware that information can be outdated.
Disclaimer
This document governs the use of our Community Forum. By registering and using the platform, you accept these conditions.
The COPA-DATA Community Forum serves to encourage the exchange of information and experience about the zenon software between forum users respectively zenon users.
Please mind that any published information on the Community Forum is the subjective opinion and view based on the experience and the level of knowledge of the author. COPA-DATA does not overtake any responsibility for the content and the accuracy of the shared information.
Users of the Community Forum are encouraged to share only well-founded experiences and to point out any risks associated with the implementation of proposed solutions to problems. COPA-DATA at its absolute discretion, reserves the right to moderate the forum. In this connection COPA-DATA may remove any information containing false facts, potentially dangerous solutions, bad language or content that may insult, degrade or discriminate others. COPA-DATA may block a non-complying user from forum access if the user violated this provision.
COPA-DATA reserves the right to change this document from time to time at own discretion.
Ing. Punzenberger COPA-DATA GmbH
Karolingerstraße 7b · 5020 Salzburg · Austria
www.copadata.com