I am currently only using FACTORY I/O and CONTROL I/O. I have a mostly functional setup already and I am looking to expand on my project.
SCENARIO #1.
I am creating a manufacturing, storage, and order fullfillment “Business”. I have a stacker with 2 rows of storage totaling 108 slots. I have an RFID reader creating I.D.'s post emitter. I then have an RFID on the “Loader Conveyor” for the stacker to assign a storage location. I then want to pull a specific pallet type from the stacker and remove it. This means I would need to know where a pallet of the requested type lives so I can retrieve it.
I am creating pallets with small, medium, and large Boxes. I will have a certain number of each box in storage. I feel that, for the sake of efficiency, the individual pallets simply go to the next available storage location rather than having an assigned area for an assigned product (as long as the predetermined number of each box size is stored).
I created a small box pallet and sent it to the stacker. That pallet receives an “S” for small and a “1” for the first of its type to enter the “database”. When it arrived at the stacker the next available storage slot is slot 32. I assigned that pallet with S1 after the emitter then add a dash and 32. (-32) to the id to store its location. This “product” is now S1-32.
Questions:
#1. People say there is a “128 word” Identification storage. I understand that to mean I can create a single ID with up to 128 individual numbers letters and characters. How can I view these created I.D’s?
#2. How many individual IDs can I create? I have 108 storage locations. Can i create 108 IDs with “128 word” individual IDs?
#3. Scenario then questions.
Lets say I pull the pallet from slot 32. The rest of the slots are full. After removing that pallet I need to create a new pallet with THAT ID to refill THAT slot. If I create an ID then remove it from “circulation”, does that ID come back as an available ID?
#4 I hear that I can make control i/o use something like excel to store these IDs. How do I do this?
#5 more questions to come lol