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 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.
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Very useful video! Thanks!