5 Use cases

The following functionalities are covered:

General information about the dosing system (manufacturer, model, serial number… ), current configuration and status.

Optimizing process: Throughput of dosing has to be adjusted with other components in the production cell/line (e.g. extruder/haul-off speed).

Process information (throughput, actual weight)

Monitoring (Status, Errors)

Recipe management: Dosing systems store their configurations in so-called recipes. These include information on nominal process parameters (temperatures, dosing volumes …). OPC 40082-4 allows transferring datasets between dosing systems and MES/line controllers for building a central repository of recipes.