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Using XIBO for both simple assembly line display and traditional Kiosk for Admin areas

Asked by Todd Dickinson

We are a small plant for an international manufacturer, this location currently has 5 administrative digital signs and another 6 manufacturing related visualizations. In both cases, the number of displays are about to grow.

The administrative/corporate displays have the typical rotating set of announcements, weather, calendar of events. No support for multi-panel layouts. Currently, the administrative digital signs are running on an expensive dedicated platform.

Our manufacturing displays are currently dedicated visualization displays directly fed by our line controllers (PLC). We have been tasked with replacing these with custom code and off-the-shelf displays. These do not display complex images, just simple labels and real time values (Station 2: 15); for the day station 2 has completed 15 units. There is a requirement to be able to roll other information occasionally on these displays as well.

I envision developing a web service to centralize access to all production and PLC data.

It appears to me that XIBO platform provides an excellent foundation to perform this type of function.

Any/all comments or suggestions welcome.

Todd

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Best Dan Garner (dangarner) said : 		#1

Hi Todd,

You've a few options with Xibo really - depending on how real time you want the Andon board to be.

1. Web Page that Xibo embeds - you control the content and formatting of the page and Xibo just shows it
2. Xibo API script that pulls PLC data and pumps it into an Xibo DataSet - use Xibo data set views to display the content
3. Web Service that can output an XML feed of the data
4. Custom module in Xibo that can talk directly to the PLC

PLC data is fairly flexible as a content source, provided you have the appropriate drivers. I would imagine that would be the hardest part of the solution.

Be interested to hear how it goes!

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Todd Dickinson (opus61856) said : 		#2

Mr. Garner,

Thanks for the answer.

Xibo appeared to be a perfect fit; it takes the headache of supporting multiple display size and orientation.

One follow-up:
 - Are there any relatively complex, decently documented PHP custom modules out on the web that your aware of?

Thanks again for the quick response.

Regards
Todd

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Todd Dickinson (opus61856) said : 		#3

Thanks Dan Garner, that solved my question.

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Dan Garner (dangarner) said : 		#4

Sorry Todd - by custom module I meant "a custom module would have to be created for your use case". If that is something you would be interested in getting done, you can look at the directory for potential developers (xibo.org.uk/directory)