Data to name at case and pallet handoffs
Case packing and palletizing need a complete signal, an identity for the case or pallet, and a blocked state. This page does not choose the machine.
Home / Packaging Automation
Packaging Automation & Connected Production Lines
These guides treat a packaging line as a chain of states, counts and handoffs. They do not select a machine and they do not quote a price.
Guides in this section:Data to name at case and pallet handoffs; Line buffers and packaging handoffs; What to define before you collect OEE; How to read PackML machine states; Close the loop from print to reject; Verify the reject, not only the camera.
Line buffers and packaging handoffs
A machine's rated speed is not the line's rate. Buffers and handoff signals decide whether the next station can take the pack.
What to define before you collect OEE
OEE is only as clear as the clocks and counts behind it. Name planned time, stops and good product before anyone publishes a percentage.
How to read PackML machine states
A reading guide to PackML: what OMAC says it is for, which OPC UA section names the states, and what a state list does not prove.
Close the loop from print to reject
Printing a code is not the same as proving the right code was read and that a bad pack left the line. Record each step.
Verify the reject, not only the camera
A vision system can flag a pack and still fail to remove it. Check misses, false rejects and the confirm signal before promising a result.