Ask your OEM: "Show me your PackML State Model. Show me your PackTags." If they give you a blank stare, find a different OEM.
If you’ve ever walked onto a packaging floor, you’ve seen the chaos. One machine speaks German (Siemens), another speaks Japanese (Mitsubishi), and the line controller is trying to translate everything into broken English.
Inconsistent interfaces. Endless re-coding. A simple jam on a cartoner shuts down the entire line for 20 minutes because no one can figure out what state the machine is in.
Instead of an OEM naming a sensor DB212.DBX4.5 , they name it PackML_Unit_1.Commands.Stop or PackML_Unit_1.Status.CurrentState .
Enter (Packaging Machine Language). It isn’t a new programming language. It is a state model and a set of tag naming conventions that turns a line of bickering machines into a single, cohesive orchestra.
