Authorize work
Validate tenant, warehouse, task, lifecycle, operator, resource, and automation policy before creating machine intent.
Fixed-automation integration
Connect warehouse intent to machines without bypassing safety.
Available with configuration
XMS Cloud orchestrates business work at the warehouse control boundary. WCS, PLC, robot, and certified safety logic retain motion, interlock, and machine authority.
Authority model
Mission and semantic command are not raw device control.
Check conditions
Resolve allowlisted command, configured tags, permissives, quality, equipment state, and shared-resource reservation.
Issue through edge
Send the configured HTTP, Modbus/TCP, raw-TCP, or WCS request through its bounded adapter—not a public backend-to-PLC socket.
Observe and reconcile
Record issued, acknowledged, completed, rejected, timed-out, faulted, and physically divergent state.
Cataloged fixed-automation dialects
Qualify the equipment and protocol combination.
Runbow sorter WCS
HTTP top-scan sortation integration with vendor exchange recording and sortation workflow tests.
Robotic pick-cell PLC
Modbus/TCP dialect for governed pick-cell work, reports, state, and failure handling.
Conveyor segment PLC
Modbus/TCP dialect for segment work and observed state; routing and safety topology remain site-specific.
Packaging machine PLC
Modbus/TCP plus bounded raw-TCP label channel for packaging-machine jobs and reports.
Simulated equipment
In-process sorter, pick-cell, conveyor, and packaging adapters for workflow and failure rehearsal.
Commissioning evidence
Force the unsafe and unknown states before go-live.
Refuse before write.
Remove guard-closed, E-stop-clear, zone-empty, downstream-ready, or another configured permissive.
Unknown is not safe.
Return stale, uncertain, or bad quality and verify no command is inferred as accepted or complete.
Expire under watchdog.
Issue a permitted command, withhold acknowledgement or completion, and retain timeout evidence.
Raise one persistent alert.
Make lane, load, cell, or machine observation disagree with reservation and work state.
Require classification.
No automatic reset until safe state, fault class, checklist, operator acknowledgement, and restart authority are explicit.
Invalidate stale proof.
Firmware, PLC program, tag map, WCS build, protocol, or equipment change requires regression and evidence refresh.
Packaging finish line
Supervise health and work across the end-of-line.
Carton erectors, sealer/labellers, conveyors, palletizers, and supporting machines expose job, health, consumable, fault, and OEE context to warehouse control.
- Machine work stays related to carton, order, pallet, and station.
- Command and acknowledgement remain separate states.
- Local equipment and safety logic remain authoritative.
WCS and PLC review
Bring the topology, equipment list, protocols, tag map, safety ownership, and failure matrix.
Define authority, network zones, commands, permissives, acknowledgements, evidence, restart, and change control.