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How To Setup IAI RCON Ethernet/IP Gateway Using IA-OS Software
Hello everyone, I am Tom Trinh, Senior Application Engineer for Valin Corporation.
Today I will illustrate how to set up Internet/IP communication to communicate between IAI RCON Ethernet/IP Gateway to an Omron N series PLC using the IA-OS utility.
Here's a system configuration that you can have with the IAI RCON controller.
So what you have here is a gateway on the very left side and I have a 24 Volt power supply connect to it. That's how it's powered. The gateway can be CC link, DeviceNet, or EtherCAT, or Ethernet/IP, or Profibus, or Profinet. In our demonstration today, we will use Ethernet/IP. Next to its, you can stack up whatever the drive that you need for the actuator that you choose. The actuators can be RCP, RCA, RCL, RCD, RCS, ISB as well as electric cylinder, EC cylinder. For certain actuators that require three phase and single phase, there's an extra module here and there's also regenerative resistor unit if you need it. For some other models that require absolute unit. For certain actuator you know we can use these RCON ABU as well. And then these are option units for running the RCS and ISB. To get this RCON up and running you would need couple software. First one is the IA-OS that allows you to do diagnostics as well as set up positions if needed. There is another software called Parameter Configuration Tool and that's how you would need to use to set up number of axis like connect to the gateway and also the mapping of the Ethernet/IP or any gateway, a field networks if you need. There's also teach pendant that you can connect to the gateway as well. As far as the software and how you connect to the gateway, there are two ways to do that. You can either connect USB cable to a USB port or an Ethernet cable between your PC to the Ethernet port.
This slide shows my demo current demo that I have that I will illustrate. So what I have is an Ethernet/IP Gateway RCON-GW-EP and I have a drive that is RCON RCON- PC-2. It basically allows me to control two actuators. These are the two actuators that I connect to the RCON-PC-2. The first one is RCP6-SA4C-WA-35P-5-60-P3-R01. So this actuator has a 60 mm stroke, 5 mm pitch screw and also the robotic cable. On this actuator I have a RCP6-TA6C-WA-42P-20-200-P3-P-CJT. So this actuator has the pitch of 20 millimeter with a stroke length of 200 millimeter. And both of these actuators have a battery-less absolute encoder meaning you don't need any battery which is a very nice feature to have. Then I have a 24 Volt power supply connect and powered up the RCON system. I also have the little switch here Ethernet switch that allows me to connect the PLC to it. This is just happened to be an Omron NX102 PLC. But this PLC can be any PLC with the Ethernet/IP scanner. It can be Mitsubishi, it can be Siemens, Allen Bradley. They all will work. Now what I have also here is the my computer and I have a USB cable for my computer connecting to the RCON. I also have an Ethernet cable connect from my computer to the switch. The software that I need once again is IAI-OS and IAI Parameter Configuration Utility and I'm using Omron Sysmac Studio just to manipulate the data. I will show you how it works.
Now open the IA-OS utility. IA-OS utility is the utility allows to do many many things, but in our demo we are using it as a diagnostic tool that allows us to do some monitoring. So when you launch it, there’re two ways to connect to it via USB or Ethernet. I'm going to go ahead and connect USB. So once you click the USB, another window like this shows up. It's showing it's trying to communicate and when it's finished another window come up like this. You want to click start communication and then another window will come up like this. You notice this shows my gateway, my RCON- PC-2. You want to click OK here. Another window will come up like this. You want to select Monitoring and then click OK. Once you've done that, this window will show up. As you can see it shows you some of the status immediately here on the axis one and axis two and then this window will come up right here. You want to click OK now with this. This window right here is very important. As I mentioned before, we got 48 bytes and that's 24 words and that's how this shows you those 24 words I used. The 1st 8 words I used for the gateway, the 2nd 8 words I used for the first axis and the last 8 words I used for the axis too. This window shows you can actually have more bits that you can monitor for axis one as well as axis 2.
So that's how you set up Ethernet/IP communication to communicate between IAI RCON Ethernet/IP gateway to an Omron N series PLC using the IA-OS utility.
If you have any questions, please feel free to call us at the number below and thank you for watching.
Contact Valin’s automation experts today at (855) 737-4716 to discuss migrating your system.
Today I will illustrate how to set up Internet/IP communication to communicate between IAI RCON Ethernet/IP Gateway to an Omron N series PLC using the IA-OS utility.
Here's a system configuration that you can have with the IAI RCON controller.
So what you have here is a gateway on the very left side and I have a 24 Volt power supply connect to it. That's how it's powered. The gateway can be CC link, DeviceNet, or EtherCAT, or Ethernet/IP, or Profibus, or Profinet. In our demonstration today, we will use Ethernet/IP. Next to its, you can stack up whatever the drive that you need for the actuator that you choose. The actuators can be RCP, RCA, RCL, RCD, RCS, ISB as well as electric cylinder, EC cylinder. For certain actuators that require three phase and single phase, there's an extra module here and there's also regenerative resistor unit if you need it. For some other models that require absolute unit. For certain actuator you know we can use these RCON ABU as well. And then these are option units for running the RCS and ISB. To get this RCON up and running you would need couple software. First one is the IA-OS that allows you to do diagnostics as well as set up positions if needed. There is another software called Parameter Configuration Tool and that's how you would need to use to set up number of axis like connect to the gateway and also the mapping of the Ethernet/IP or any gateway, a field networks if you need. There's also teach pendant that you can connect to the gateway as well. As far as the software and how you connect to the gateway, there are two ways to do that. You can either connect USB cable to a USB port or an Ethernet cable between your PC to the Ethernet port.
This slide shows my demo current demo that I have that I will illustrate. So what I have is an Ethernet/IP Gateway RCON-GW-EP and I have a drive that is RCON RCON- PC-2. It basically allows me to control two actuators. These are the two actuators that I connect to the RCON-PC-2. The first one is RCP6-SA4C-WA-35P-5-60-P3-R01. So this actuator has a 60 mm stroke, 5 mm pitch screw and also the robotic cable. On this actuator I have a RCP6-TA6C-WA-42P-20-200-P3-P-CJT. So this actuator has the pitch of 20 millimeter with a stroke length of 200 millimeter. And both of these actuators have a battery-less absolute encoder meaning you don't need any battery which is a very nice feature to have. Then I have a 24 Volt power supply connect and powered up the RCON system. I also have the little switch here Ethernet switch that allows me to connect the PLC to it. This is just happened to be an Omron NX102 PLC. But this PLC can be any PLC with the Ethernet/IP scanner. It can be Mitsubishi, it can be Siemens, Allen Bradley. They all will work. Now what I have also here is the my computer and I have a USB cable for my computer connecting to the RCON. I also have an Ethernet cable connect from my computer to the switch. The software that I need once again is IAI-OS and IAI Parameter Configuration Utility and I'm using Omron Sysmac Studio just to manipulate the data. I will show you how it works.
Now open the IA-OS utility. IA-OS utility is the utility allows to do many many things, but in our demo we are using it as a diagnostic tool that allows us to do some monitoring. So when you launch it, there’re two ways to connect to it via USB or Ethernet. I'm going to go ahead and connect USB. So once you click the USB, another window like this shows up. It's showing it's trying to communicate and when it's finished another window come up like this. You want to click start communication and then another window will come up like this. You notice this shows my gateway, my RCON- PC-2. You want to click OK here. Another window will come up like this. You want to select Monitoring and then click OK. Once you've done that, this window will show up. As you can see it shows you some of the status immediately here on the axis one and axis two and then this window will come up right here. You want to click OK now with this. This window right here is very important. As I mentioned before, we got 48 bytes and that's 24 words and that's how this shows you those 24 words I used. The 1st 8 words I used for the gateway, the 2nd 8 words I used for the first axis and the last 8 words I used for the axis too. This window shows you can actually have more bits that you can monitor for axis one as well as axis 2.
So that's how you set up Ethernet/IP communication to communicate between IAI RCON Ethernet/IP gateway to an Omron N series PLC using the IA-OS utility.
If you have any questions, please feel free to call us at the number below and thank you for watching.
Contact Valin’s automation experts today at (855) 737-4716 to discuss migrating your system.
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