Hi Vio, thank you for detailed explanation of bellow mention problem (tracking work hours of palet plant).

In this moment, for us is much more important to have realiable tracking when packing machine is working, and when not, then to have reliable counting of correct pallets. I would like to use solution which can be implement fast, and without serious modification of software and hardware in Doboj plant. Your solution explained under topic 1. (using the existing signal of lighting barrier as starting trigger, and using the photo sensor after we finshed foiling at strech hood as ending trigger, in predefined period of time) sounds good and acceptable for me. But, I do not understand, how we will recorded, or where we will stored data about ''good running minutes''? Is it possible to generate some log file (it could be simple txt file (of course, it will be excelent if we will be able to generate excel file), which will contain information in which period we have correct pallets (that's ''good running minutes'') with softweare we have right now?

So, my question will be, is it possible to generate some log file (it could be simple txt file (of course, it will be excelent if we will be able to generate excel file), which will contain information in which period we have correct pallets (that's ''good running minutes'') with softweare we have right now? Time when we record first ''good pallet'' is start of palletizing, and the time when we record last good pallet is end of palletizing. I