>I am in the process of completing a manufacturing application.
>Within this application I have a production screen and a weigh station screen. Both sceens/terminals can and have the same job/work order open and active.
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>Once a products is off its production line it is instantly registered using the production screen. Once registered the product then moves to the weigh station to get weighed. Note - production is still going on.
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>What in this environment is the best way to update/refresh the weigh screen automatically when new products are added to the production screen in order to help the weighing operator expect incoming.... and vice versa, when the weight is entered to automatically update the weight info area in the production screen to inform the production operator ?
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>Both screens use a grid of the same local view to display the products.

Depending on your design, it might be enough to have a timer and periodically requery/refresh your view.
The more complex way would be to set up the DCOM object that will notify other workstations by raising the event when the new product added.