Non-Serialized Items: Defined

Non-Serialized items are parts, assemblies or other articles that you are not interested in positively identifying, but you want to know their location.

Non-Serialized items:

• Do not have a unique identifier.
• Hold two attributes, a parent ID and an item type.
• Do not require a tag for sensor recognition.
• Can be pallets, carriers, bins or other articles that are reused in production.

Example

The following diagram shows a cart, which is an item that is reused in a factory,and trips a limit switch that is at the entry point of a Carriage Return Region 5 (CR5). The tracking system is notified that an item has passed into CR5.

1	CIMPLICITY server with the Tracking system.
2	Simple limit switch signal the tracking system that something passed.
3	The server receives the signal.