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A Clock for the Manufacturing Systems Integration Testbed

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Author(s)

Donald E. Libes

Abstract

This paper describes a software module that provides timing services to the MSI, a Manufacturing Systems Integration Testbed in the automated factory.

The software alarm clock provides services to other MSI software including:

  • Synchrony
  • Real-time, or non-real-time adjusted in a variety of ways
  • Alarms at relative or absolute internals.

By providing a central time service, these services are provided more reliably, efficiently, and flexibly than could any client on its own.

This paper describes how the timing software was implemented, what its interfaces are, and how to design and write programs that use it.

Citation
NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR) - 4666
Report Number
4666

Keywords

automated factory, Manufacturing Systems Integration, real-time

Citation

Libes, D. (1991), A Clock for the Manufacturing Systems Integration Testbed, NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.4666 (Accessed July 27, 2024)

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Created September 1, 1991, Updated November 10, 2018