Automatic change of Raw Material with change of Recipe
It is possible to setup BLX so there will be an automatic change of Raw Material when ever there is a change in Recipe.
If a recipe is selected where the right Raw material isn’t selected, then BLX will stop!
Therefore, it is important that Recipe and Raw Material is combined either by having all feeder and raw materials in the Raw material list under the controller configuration (see figure 1 below) or ensure that whenever a recipe is change the right raw material is selected under the feeders.
Figur 1: Controller configure tool. with different recipes and raw materials
Now this can be automated so whenever there is a recipe change BLX will also active the right raw material.
This is how to set it up:
- Need calculator program:
- SelectRawMaterialFromRecipe.
- If it is a new BLX system this program will be part of the BLX Common and be available.
- If it is an older system, it will not be available and there are two options:
- Get hold of it from someone else (ask on teams if someone has it)
- Or build the program in Calculator (see figure 2)
Figur 2: Calculator program for automatic selection of Raw Materials when changing recipe. Here it is made for 20 Values but this can be what ever is required.
FORMATTER ERROR (Malformed List)
Figur 3: Create new program instance under the right feeder
Figur 4: Create new instance
Figur 5: New Program instance created. Now set Selection "As Link"
Figure 6: This is an example of how to set up the SelectMaterialFromRecipe. When Recipe is SelectionMask 0, then it will use the Raw Material with Selection mask 2.