Introduction: Scale and Packing Station

Introduction: Scale and Packing Station

Introduction for Connecting a Scale to the Packing Station

Goal:
To be able to determine the weight of a handling unit at the packing station with the touch of a button.

Technical prerequisites:
A scale that can be connected to a PC using a serial interface. Scale that the system supports at this point: Sartorius.

Settings outside the SAP System:

The "scale.exe" program must exist on the PC. The directory in which the program is stored is important for other settings and is listed in "PATH_FOR_SCALE.EXE" (example: C:\temp\scale.exe).

A scale-specific program that transfers scale information (weight and unit) into the DDE field of the scale.exe program must be running on the PC.
For a Sartorius scale, this program is Sartorius.exe, for example. This program lists itself in the PC's registry using the name "Sartorius" (complete path for the registry entry: HKEY_CURRENT_USERS -> Software -> VB and VBA Program Settings -> HUDDEDRV).

Settings in the SAP System:

Remote Function Call (RFC) destination:
In order to link the SAP System to the scale.exe program, you must create an RFC destination. You can use the SM59 transaction to create and maintain RFC destinations. The necessary link must be a type T link (TCP/IP). Select "Start on front-end workstation" as the activation type and then specify it in the "PATH_FOR_SCALE.EXE" program.

Enter the name of the RFC destination you created in the packing station profile.

Enter the name of the scale, as it is listed in the PC's registry, in the packing station profile. Example : "Sartorius".

Using the scale:
Once you have made all the settings, you must start the scale-specific program (such as Sartorius.exe), before you call up the packing station transaction. Then, you can use the Weigh button to determine the weight of objects at the packing station.