Flat Glass Processing

OPC 40301 defines an OPC UA model for Flat Glass Processing and thus provides a unique interface for flat glass processing machines, e.g., cutting machines and higher order systems from different manufacturers.

It describes the interface between a flat glass processing/assembling machine and manufacturing execution systems (MES), or enterprise resource planning (ERP) for data exchange.

The following functionalities are covered:

– Machine identification, including machine status, information for job planning and machine capability, information on logged-in users;
– Job handling including job management, job status, calls to deal with jobs.