RE: Package scale - input options

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
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
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