Hi, Does Ignition have a native ADS communications driver for Beckhoff TwinCAT or is OPC UA the only option? Thanks.

I'm also eagerly waiting for a native Beckhoff Driver.

It's became high need due to a lot of issue in Beckhoff OPC performance issue with PLC number of Cores utilities for OPC in Beckhoff..

I'll also voice my wish (need) for this driver with some of our new equipment using Beckhoff.

We would also like an ADS driver :slight_smile:

Just a bump here again on this topic.

[image] Anyone interested in a pure-Java Beckhoff ADS driver for Ignition? Ignition Hi all, After quite a bit of thinking about it ... I've actually started working on an ADS Driver for Ignition. The connection is already working ... currently working on making the tag-in…

The driver is already working and first beta tests have been started. Need to attach the bells and whistles and finish setting up the legal entity to be able to sell it :wink:

awesome! we have a customer who needs this for a really fast data acquisition system

Hi, in Norway Ignition is really starting to gain momentum, a lot of companies has adopted to the software. Same applies for Beckhoff, especially in the aquaculture industry. A ignition ADS driver would really help to utilize these two systems.

You already can, because Beckhoff has either onboard OPC UA server or software OPC UA server for their PLCs. Is there some use case not served by Beckhoff's OPC UA implementation that you can point to?

Beckhoff ADS Driver

Ignition

David_Stone July 22, 2025, 10:48am 39

Maybe start there?