Lane Status for Beacon Tower

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Enhancement

• Extend the use of MultiPlug Events that signify the status of the Line

Use case

• Multicolour Beacon Towers/Semaphore Signalling Towers and audible alarms
• The Events can be outputted using simple to RS232/Serial Port messages to control Beacon LEDs

Note

• Event SMEMA.Global.Status has 1 Subject of blocked which has a value of 0 or 1. This is a Global (All Lanes Status)

Design

• Allow setup of these states eg:
  • Unblocked
  • Blocked
  • Latched Unblocked

[Industry4]

Design

The introduction of 'Programmable Events' allowing the creation of Events based on the Extension state and a truth table.

The following states will be supported:

• Machine Ready Interlock (Red Cross)
• Good Board Interlock (Red Cross)
• Bad Board Interlock (Red Cross)
• Flip Board Interlock (Red Cross)
• Machine Ready Latched (Lock Icon)
• Good Board Latched (Lock Icon)
• Good Board Divert Latched (Lock Icon)
• Bad Board Latched (Lock Icon)
• Bad Board Divert Latched (Lock Icon)
• Flip Board Latched (Lock Icon)
• Good Board Diverted (Yellow Arrow)
• Bad Board Diverted (Yellow Arrow)
• Machine Ready Blocked
• Good Board Blocked
• Bad Board Blocked
• Flip Board Blocked
• User initiated system shutdown

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User Interface

Page: /extensions/multiplug.ext.smema/lane/

Page: /extensions/multiplug.ext.smema/lane/programmable-event/