{"id":8704,"date":"2020-12-16T09:15:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T17:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/?p=8704"},"modified":"2021-02-23T09:55:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T17:55:38","slug":"material-handling-equipment-mhe-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/material-handling-equipment-mhe-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Material Handling Equipment (MHE)\/Auto-Apply Support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Looking to automate more of your packing and shipping?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>eFORMz integrates with a number of material handling equipment (MHE) systems. eFORMz communicates directly with the most common automation protocols and languages, such as CIP, EtherNet\/IP and Modbus\/TCP. In addition, eFORMz can make use of web service and direct network port communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uses include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Employ induction scanning of box \u2018license plate\u2019 bar codes to initiate a series of lookups, leading to the generation of a shipping label.<\/li><li>Read scales to rate shop, generate a shipping label or check weigh boxes before loading.<\/li><li>Read position sensors and bar code scanners to ensure the proper label(s) are prepared for auto-apply.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Some supported vendors include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Rockwell \/ Allen-Bradley<\/li><li>Automation Direct<\/li><li>Advantech<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Modbus Service Listener<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>eFORMz supports Modbus TCP\/IP. For the Modbus service listener, add the following configuration line to the <code>ServiceManagerSettings.xml<\/code> file:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">&lt;Service Name=\"Modbus\" Class=\"com.minisoft.mhe.ModbusService\" Parameters=\"username:modbus password:password project:projects\/customer\/dothis.efz \" Start=\"true\" \/&gt;<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking to automate more of your packing and shipping? eFORMz integrates with a number of material handling equipment (MHE) systems. eFORMz communicates directly with the most common automation protocols and languages, such as CIP, EtherNet\/IP and Modbus\/TCP. In addition, eFORMz can make use of web service and direct network port communications. Uses include: Employ induction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,685],"tags":[687,668,667,686],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8704"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9031,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704\/revisions\/9031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}