I have a mostly standalone piece of equipment that is supposed to help provide some additional cooling to a plants glycol system by utilizing waste heat generated by the equipment. I am having an issue with integrating the controls for a pump on the plant network with the local Ignition system on the equipment however.
The pump is controlled by a Productivity processor that controls a VFD to run the pump and a few sensors to monitor conditions. It is connected to the main plants Ignition system through Modbus TCP. The plant network uses a 10.10.xxx.xxx subnet.
The standalone equipment with the local Ignition server utilizes 192.168.xxx.xxx subnet on the other hand. It is currently integrated into the plant network using a StrideLinx NAT/VPN device, with the standalone equipment being on the LAN side and the plants network being on the WAN side. We can use the connection correctly going from the plant side to get into the standalone equipment.
However I need to get that Productivity processor on the local Ignition system, so the equipment operator can control the glycol pump as needed. I am unsure of how to set up this connection however.
