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How to Setup the Autonics ARIO-C-EI with Omron N Series PLC
Hello everyone, I'm Tom Trinh, Senior Application Engineer for Valin Corporation.
Today I will illustrate how to set up an Autonics ARIO-C-EI Ethernet/IP Coupler to communicate to an Omron N Series PLC.
So what you see in front of you here I have 3 windows. One of them is the DAQMaster software from Autonics which is free that allows you to change the IP address of the Autonics Ethernet/IP coupler as well as monitoring it. The screen below here is basically the video feedback.
So you can see actually how the LEDs will change when I force an output on from my computer. OK, so first and foremost to connect to the Internet IP coupler from Autonics, you can connect to it via USB cable and that's what I have here. It is connected to here or you can connect to Ethernet as well. But for now I'm using this USB port connect to this port here.
OK And also you need to supply power to the Ethernet coupler and you see I have 24 Volt coming in here. Brown is a positive, blue is a negative and then I jumper some of the wires here so that I can bring it down to the I/O power as well. So that's what we have on this. As far as the cabling, you notice the coupler itself has Ethernet port on the top here and also the one below.
So I'm connecting one of the cable from the top to the Omron PLC and if I need more than one I can just daisy chain from this port to another coupler like this.
Keep in mind this Ethernet/IP coupler allows you to connect up to 64 slices like this which is very nice. That's a lot. As long as the scanner can support it, you can have as many as 64 slices for this.
All right, let's see what do we have up here. So this is the video feedback from my camera, the DAQMASTER software. So that's what we have here. We're actually looking at this live right now. But just real quick you can you can hit scan and it will automatically scan what's out there and bring it up and show you up here. So that's what DAQMASTER allows you to do. And let's see that's pretty much it, I mean DAQMASTER can do a lot more but this is what you have right now on this side. By the way, as far as EDS file, we can get you the EDS file for the Ethernet/IP. Contact us and we can get that to you. It's very simple. It's just a file that you need to set up your Ethernet/IP configuration.
On this side, I’m using the Omron Ethernet/IP Configurator and in the Sysmac studio to set this up.
By the way, this Ethernet IP coupler will work with any PLC that has a scanner. For example Allen Bradley, Mitsubishi, Siemens, anything, any PLC, any manufacturer that has Ethernet/IP scanner it will work. So on this side once you have the EDS file, you install it and then you create the Ethernet/IP set up.
So what I have is as a hardware on the Autonics side I have the ARIO-C-EI Ethernet coupler.
I have a four digital output. The part number is DO04P, that's a four point digital output and then I have a four point digital input which is AUtonics DI04P.
So I have 4 digital input and four digital output. OK now knowing that and I know each one of these slices because it's 4 bit so it takes only a nibble, but I need to use the whole byte, so I have one byte here for the output and I have another byte here for the input. So keep that in mind.
So on the Ethernet/IP site, all I need to do is create two global variables one of them is the input and one of them is the output and tie that to the global variables. So what I did here, under the global variable I create A tag name called Autonics_input with an array of 1 byte Autonics_output with an array of 1 byte. OK, so that's what I need to do first.
Then I go to my Ethernet/IP configuration and as you notice here I'm using the second port which is 192168.2.100. By default the Omron PLC this is one 192168.251.1.
I change it purposely so that it will match the with these same first three objects of the Autonics because the Autonics EthernetIP coupler is 192168.2.3 by default.
That's why you can change it in the software before.
Now I'm going to stick with it and leave it the same.
Having said that, so that's what the second port of the online PLC is 192.168.2.100.
So I do that and then what I do is in the configuration I basically add a target here and that target is 192168.2.3 as I mentioned. So you click add here and then you add it and once you have the EDS file installed within the Sysmac Studio, this should automatically come up and you add it.
So that's one step that you need to do first. Once you do that, it will appear here and you make sure you select registration all so that the global variable will come automatically into here for you. And you notice once you select Registration All, you now have the tag, the tag name Autonics_input under the input tag. All right. And this is size 1 byte. And if you go to the output tab here, same thing, you have the global variable Autonics_Output automatically come for you. All right, so that's the second step you created it, you create it in a global variable and then you registration all. So once you've done with that, you click this icon right here. And I already do this already, but basically what you do is you make sure that the target variable for the input is assembly 101 and the size 1 byte and that ties to the global variable Auutonics_inputs. OK for the outputs you want to use the assembly 100 under target variable in a size 1 byte. Now this just happened to be 1 byte in one byte out because all I have is 4 digital outputs and 4 digital inputs. OK, if I have more on the Ethernet/IP coupler from Autonics, I will have to change this number of bytes, but that's simple. You just go in here and change that. OK, for now we keep it 1 byte because that's all I have. Once you have that, that's all you need to do. Then you transfer to the controller. This setup here will now go down to the PLC and that's all you have to do as far as a setup the Ethernet?P within the Oman N series PLC. OK now so I've already done all this so I'm going to test it for you.
So right now I open the watch window and I have Automics outputs right here. OK, right now you notice I have 1111. So all four of the outputs are on right now on the watch window here and also here which is the DAQMASTER software and also down here from my camera it shows 4 outputs on. I'm going to turn them all off right now. So to do that I'm going to go over here. I'm going to turn them all off from the PLC. As soon as I hit enter, you will notice all four outputs will be off. Here we go. Yep, it turns it off. Here, camera turns it off. Let's say I want to turn on only the first one. OK, here we go. Only one of them is on. Alright, if you want to turn on two of them, bit zero and bit one. Voila. Alright, you don't want to turn them all on. I can certainly do that 12. Let me back up. Actually, here we go. They are on now.
So that's how you set up the Ethernet/IP coupler for Autonics ARIO-C-EI using the DAQMASTER by the way, the software is FREE as I mentioned before and so this is how you set up the Autonics ARIO-C-EI to communicate to the Omron PLC, N series PLC.
If you have any questions, please call (855) 737-4716 or fill out our online form.
Today I will illustrate how to set up an Autonics ARIO-C-EI Ethernet/IP Coupler to communicate to an Omron N Series PLC.
So what you see in front of you here I have 3 windows. One of them is the DAQMaster software from Autonics which is free that allows you to change the IP address of the Autonics Ethernet/IP coupler as well as monitoring it. The screen below here is basically the video feedback.
So you can see actually how the LEDs will change when I force an output on from my computer. OK, so first and foremost to connect to the Internet IP coupler from Autonics, you can connect to it via USB cable and that's what I have here. It is connected to here or you can connect to Ethernet as well. But for now I'm using this USB port connect to this port here.
OK And also you need to supply power to the Ethernet coupler and you see I have 24 Volt coming in here. Brown is a positive, blue is a negative and then I jumper some of the wires here so that I can bring it down to the I/O power as well. So that's what we have on this. As far as the cabling, you notice the coupler itself has Ethernet port on the top here and also the one below.
So I'm connecting one of the cable from the top to the Omron PLC and if I need more than one I can just daisy chain from this port to another coupler like this.
Keep in mind this Ethernet/IP coupler allows you to connect up to 64 slices like this which is very nice. That's a lot. As long as the scanner can support it, you can have as many as 64 slices for this.
All right, let's see what do we have up here. So this is the video feedback from my camera, the DAQMASTER software. So that's what we have here. We're actually looking at this live right now. But just real quick you can you can hit scan and it will automatically scan what's out there and bring it up and show you up here. So that's what DAQMASTER allows you to do. And let's see that's pretty much it, I mean DAQMASTER can do a lot more but this is what you have right now on this side. By the way, as far as EDS file, we can get you the EDS file for the Ethernet/IP. Contact us and we can get that to you. It's very simple. It's just a file that you need to set up your Ethernet/IP configuration.
On this side, I’m using the Omron Ethernet/IP Configurator and in the Sysmac studio to set this up.
By the way, this Ethernet IP coupler will work with any PLC that has a scanner. For example Allen Bradley, Mitsubishi, Siemens, anything, any PLC, any manufacturer that has Ethernet/IP scanner it will work. So on this side once you have the EDS file, you install it and then you create the Ethernet/IP set up.
So what I have is as a hardware on the Autonics side I have the ARIO-C-EI Ethernet coupler.
I have a four digital output. The part number is DO04P, that's a four point digital output and then I have a four point digital input which is AUtonics DI04P.
So I have 4 digital input and four digital output. OK now knowing that and I know each one of these slices because it's 4 bit so it takes only a nibble, but I need to use the whole byte, so I have one byte here for the output and I have another byte here for the input. So keep that in mind.
So on the Ethernet/IP site, all I need to do is create two global variables one of them is the input and one of them is the output and tie that to the global variables. So what I did here, under the global variable I create A tag name called Autonics_input with an array of 1 byte Autonics_output with an array of 1 byte. OK, so that's what I need to do first.
Then I go to my Ethernet/IP configuration and as you notice here I'm using the second port which is 192168.2.100. By default the Omron PLC this is one 192168.251.1.
I change it purposely so that it will match the with these same first three objects of the Autonics because the Autonics EthernetIP coupler is 192168.2.3 by default.
That's why you can change it in the software before.
Now I'm going to stick with it and leave it the same.
Having said that, so that's what the second port of the online PLC is 192.168.2.100.
So I do that and then what I do is in the configuration I basically add a target here and that target is 192168.2.3 as I mentioned. So you click add here and then you add it and once you have the EDS file installed within the Sysmac Studio, this should automatically come up and you add it.
So that's one step that you need to do first. Once you do that, it will appear here and you make sure you select registration all so that the global variable will come automatically into here for you. And you notice once you select Registration All, you now have the tag, the tag name Autonics_input under the input tag. All right. And this is size 1 byte. And if you go to the output tab here, same thing, you have the global variable Autonics_Output automatically come for you. All right, so that's the second step you created it, you create it in a global variable and then you registration all. So once you've done with that, you click this icon right here. And I already do this already, but basically what you do is you make sure that the target variable for the input is assembly 101 and the size 1 byte and that ties to the global variable Auutonics_inputs. OK for the outputs you want to use the assembly 100 under target variable in a size 1 byte. Now this just happened to be 1 byte in one byte out because all I have is 4 digital outputs and 4 digital inputs. OK, if I have more on the Ethernet/IP coupler from Autonics, I will have to change this number of bytes, but that's simple. You just go in here and change that. OK, for now we keep it 1 byte because that's all I have. Once you have that, that's all you need to do. Then you transfer to the controller. This setup here will now go down to the PLC and that's all you have to do as far as a setup the Ethernet?P within the Oman N series PLC. OK now so I've already done all this so I'm going to test it for you.
So right now I open the watch window and I have Automics outputs right here. OK, right now you notice I have 1111. So all four of the outputs are on right now on the watch window here and also here which is the DAQMASTER software and also down here from my camera it shows 4 outputs on. I'm going to turn them all off right now. So to do that I'm going to go over here. I'm going to turn them all off from the PLC. As soon as I hit enter, you will notice all four outputs will be off. Here we go. Yep, it turns it off. Here, camera turns it off. Let's say I want to turn on only the first one. OK, here we go. Only one of them is on. Alright, if you want to turn on two of them, bit zero and bit one. Voila. Alright, you don't want to turn them all on. I can certainly do that 12. Let me back up. Actually, here we go. They are on now.
So that's how you set up the Ethernet/IP coupler for Autonics ARIO-C-EI using the DAQMASTER by the way, the software is FREE as I mentioned before and so this is how you set up the Autonics ARIO-C-EI to communicate to the Omron PLC, N series PLC.
If you have any questions, please call (855) 737-4716 or fill out our online form.
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