# Barber colman maco controler - how to connect?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/barber-colman-maco-controler-how-to-connect/7937>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [February 1, 2014, 6:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/barber-colman-maco-controler-how-to-connect/7937 "2014-02-01T18:14:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![bartekp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecc23a/32.png) [@bartekp](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bartekp)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 6:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/barber-colman-maco-controler-how-to-connect/7937/1 "2014-02-01T18:14:15Z")

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Did anyone try to connect with this controller ? By ethernet (TCP/IP)

Harwarde descr. bellow:  
[eurotherm.com/products/machi … -retrofit/](http://www.eurotherm.com/products/machine-control-systems/injection-molding/van-dorn-ht-retrofit/)

Any success ?

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**Author:** ![adamabelew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/97f17d/32.png) [@adamabelew](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/adamabelew)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 2:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/barber-colman-maco-controler-how-to-connect/7937/2 "2014-02-04T14:19:47Z")

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I’m not sure about the current conversion that you reference in the link, but I have experience with the original MACO 6500 & 8000 conversion that consisted of a Schneider Quantum PLC coupled to the BC controller and new I/O. This was usually integrated with Wonderware. At the time I worked with this, it was Wonderware 7 or 8.

That being said, I am sure one can utilize the UA OPC server to grab the data from the MACOs updated PLC.

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**Author:** ![greg.simpson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/greg.simpson/32/3135_2.png) [@greg.simpson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/greg.simpson)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 10:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/barber-colman-maco-controler-how-to-connect/7937/3 "2015-03-10T22:27:44Z")

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This is a rather old post. But lets see if I can be of assistance or if you ever got this working with Ignition.

I checked out the link you had in your post. It looks like a Siemens controller may be used in this application. What Siemens controller is used in this application?