Barcode question

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Hello.  I am seeing the barcode scanner option and have a couple of questions.  With Calypso, can you use a barcode on your traveler to choose which program you want to open?  Or, is the barcode scanner just something to use once the program you want to run is open to input data into the program header?  It would be nice if it was able to be used to open a program, then as long as it is on the traveler correctly, there would be no errors in opening programs.  I am asking because we have multiple machines and programs are being opened by people on 1 machine that is set up on a different machine and they are not doing manual alignments on them, just using the alignment from the other machine.  We just had a pretty good crash on one of our machines recently that this happened.  Thanks for the help with this.

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Are the programs being stored on a network. How can one machine open a program from another machine?

I would recommend using autorun and locking out privileges for operators. With programs on the CMM's local drive and in autorun the operators would only be able to open the program for that machine. All they would be able to do is click the program icon load the part and hit run. If you have it set up correctly in would in effect, be the same as what you ask. In addition, you can use poke yoke fixturing with no need for start alignments.