RE: Package scale - input options

["M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Jeff,

-  What vendor?
-  Which brand of scale?
-  Is there special software that runs on the PC or is the hardware 
wedge enough?
-  Did the vendor supply the entire package or is the keyboard wedge 
the trick to making this work with any scale?
-  What was the cost to implement?


 -mark


At 6/28/2012 07:23 AM, you wrote:
> We have a scale/Scanner/Ethernet terminal connected via a keyboard wedge.  I
> had our scale vendor program the scale print key to send   information such
> as
>
> Gross weight
> Tare weight
> Net weight
> Piece count
> Total count
>
> This includes a carriage return/field exit after each variable.
>
> I have an input screen/program  that accepts this data on the system I.  The
> user scans a barcode (shop order/operation) weighs a drum of parts presses
> the print key the scale information is uploaded to the screen.  I then use
> all of this information to perform inventory transactions on the system.
>
> Jeff Elam
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of franz400
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 6:52 AM
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> Subject: Re: Package scale - input options
>
> if it acts like a barcode scanner, then that "pc app" could be a 5250
> iSeries Access screen...
> Have often used scanners as keyboard input.
> jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 6:12 AM
> Subject: RE: Package scale - input options
>
>
> >>   What is required to pipe data from a package scale into a 5250 screen?
> >> Similar in concept to a barcode scanning gun.
> >>
> >>   There is a (Toledo, I believe) scale with a USB connection.  Is some
> >> specialized software required?
> >>
> >>   TIA for any suggestions.
> >
> > Sounds like it.  In the first place, there is no USB port on the System i
> > (unless they've changed that in the past few years), so it's not going to
> > be
> > a pure i solution.  Unless I miss my guess (and it is a guess) you'll need
> > to attach it to a device (PC?) and have a program/app on that device that
> > will read the scale and then fill in a screen (or a field on a screen)
> > with
> > the result.
> >
> > Dennis Lovelady