GE PLC / iFix questions

General Discussion
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A customer has a bunch of new GE PLCs and a new iFix SCADA system, but is very interested in Ignition:

  • Can you provide some suggestions for a drive to connect the PLCs to Ignition?
  • Is iFix an OPC server to which Ignition can connect?

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. I apologize for the lack of details.

2

We use Kepware to connect our 9070 and 9030’s to Ignition.

iFix 4.0 and up all can be connected to via OPC. I do it here quite a bit. You can see both the local database and any network connected databases through the OPC interface.

  • Dravik
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Dravik’s got it. We see Kepware used quite a bit when we have a PLC Ignition doesn’t have a native driver for.

As for connecting to iFix, you may need the OPC-COM module if it’s a OPC-DCOM server. Other than that, you should be fine!

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[quote=“michael.stofan”]Dravik’s got it. We see Kepware used quite a bit when we have a PLC Ignition doesn’t have a native driver for.

As for connecting to iFix, you may need the OPC-COM module if it’s a OPC-DCOM server. Other than that, you should be fine![/quote]

Michael -

It is indeed a DCOM server.

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Good to know, thanks!