One customer defined 827 Product Codes, many of which are actually duplicates.

The line they did this on is a Purlin Line that has logic in the PLC to compare the recipe between two product codes to determine if they are actually different.

They were hesitant to redefine all of their product codes and recipes so we created this backdoor solution to allow them to Bypass all of the PCode comparison code in the XL.

In MODBUS version level 121 a new configuration bit was added to enable a Product Code Comparison Bypass mode. Enabling this mode disables the Product code comparisons that halt the queue or enforce setup or tool configurations. The settings controlling those feature get forced to disabled and the settings get hidden from the user.

This feature and a Multi-Axis controller with PCode setup Axes defined are incompatible with one another. The user will be forced to disable one or the other with an error message if they want to run.