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Another view of the machine controls

“All machines need modes and states. On this machine I wanted them based on standards. I remembered a presentation on OMAC Packaging Guidelines and decided to apply the concept.

“Ilapak agreed to use structured text as much as possible because it is well accepted in Europe and it is flexible. The application could just as readily be developed using ladder diagram if a customer preferred it.

“We needed manual, production, setup, and several other modes, and all are implemented with OMAC’s PackML standard states. Ilapak’s engineers liked the ability to split the project into modules with references. We began with a ‘virtual’ OMAC mode, called ‘base,’ as a template where we defined all the state transitions—idle, start, executing, aborting, etc. We were then able to create references to the basic mode file and make only the changes required for the new mode.

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