5 Use cases

The following functionalities are covered:

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

Recipe management: Extruders store their configurations in so-called recipes. These include information on nominal process parameters (temperatures, dosing volumens …). OPC 40084-3 allows transferring datasets between extruders and MES for building a central repository of recipes.