Ethernet is no longer an option for Industrial Devices – ETHERNET IS A REQUIREMENT. Ethernet is the fastest growing segment of Industrial Networking for one reason – The Market (Your Customers) Loves Ethernet. And the most important Industrial Ethernet protocol is EtherNet/IP™. EtherNet/IP is the Ethernet solution used in the Rockwell Automation architecture and the one GM is requiring for Robots, Welders and other automation devices.
Even though Ethernet is the current standard for industrial communications, there is still an awful lot of DeviceNet Slave devices out there. There is a ton of perfectly good scales, flow meters, drives and lots of other things that use DeviceNet communications. This is equipment that you’ve probably used for a long time and you’re comfortable with. You know how to set it up, how to make it work and you know that it’s reliable. Plus, you’re probably not really comfortable putting all your I/O devices on Ethernet.
The problem is that you’d really like to see all that DeviceNet IO from your EtherNet/IP Client. And DeviceNet Masters that plug into PLC racks are pretty darn expensive and usually pretty hard to setup. So, you’ve probably bit the bullet, invested a thousand or more, waded through a complex manual and spent a few hours figuring out how to implement it. You’ve probably thought, “Shouldn’t this be easier?”
Well, that’s what our device does. It makes moving DeviceNet IO data to an EtherNet/IP Client simple. It quickly and easily moves the slave IO data you need from those scales, drives and other slave devices to EtherNet/IP Clients without all the hassle. Here’s how you do it:
- Start the web server and configure your first DeviceNet device. Enter its DeviceNet MacID Address and the length of the Input and Output assemblies.
- Repeat this for every DeviceNet Slave device you have.
When you get done, the DeviceNet Master starts reading all the I/O data you specified and appending all the data together. The entire group of registers then becomes the network input to your EtherNet/IP Client. For output data, the reverse happens. Data from the EtherNet/IP Client is written out to your DeviceNet devices using the list of output assemblies you specified in the order you specified.
It’s Easy! So Easy that we will let you try it for 45 days with a no questions asked return guarantee. You don’t like it, you don’t like the documentation, we’ll happily take it back. |
