Auto Transport links and Sequences in PM

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It’s a bit cumbersome when you need to connect complicated transport links and build sequences in PM, this example demonstrates how to automatically generate transport links and sequences based on Excel data using the Python API.

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Note

  1. The Excel format is fixed but can be modified according to your project needs.
  2. Read excel and generate transport links and sequences scripts are in Feeder component
  3. Each machines has custom process, it changes next process target, that’s how it works.

Good to know

  1. When current process and next process are the same process, it still works, but the product will first go to neighbor process before circling back.

Explanation

PM Process 10 x Steps 5.vcmx (247.0 KB)
PM Process 10 x Steps 5.xlsx (10.7 KB)

PM Process 600 x Steps 20.vcmx (938.3 KB)
PM Process 600 x Steps 20.xlsx (78.4 KB)

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