Floor Automation

You can use MSMQ to control the automated manufacturing of any product that is produced with a numerically controlled industrial machine that is controlled through a personal computer. In the following example, MSMQ is used to collect orders and manage the production flow by controlling the personal computers that control the industrial machines.

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The following MSMQ features are critical to the success of floor automation:

Guaranteed delivery: Ensures that each message is delivered and helps ensure a reliable messaging system.
Message prioritization: Efficient routing of messages. For example, quality assurance (QA) messages need to be delivered eventually, but shouldn't prevent the efficient delivery of time-critical messages.
Connectionless messaging: Interactions of various clients, the personal computers controlling the industrial machines, and a mainframe computer as a single system.
Multiple platform support: Integration of personal computers and legacy systems. For example, an accounting package may reside on an MVS system.
Performance: Control of real-time production processes, such as controlling cooking temperature.
Asynchronous delivery: Faster devices can continue working without waiting for slower devices to respond.