Hello team,
I have some lutetia ovens that I want to connect to ignition. I was able to get ignition to see them using the omron driver however there are no tags being passed that I can grab and map. I’m just starting with Ignition so I know there’s some understanding that I am lacking regarding how PLC’s and Ignition interact. Is there anyone out there that has some spare time to connect and talk about Ignition and PLC’s. You’ll find that I’m a quick learner and fun to talk to! (I hope lol) otherwise if anyone can point me in the right direction. Currently the ovens are connected to Indusoft SCADA but I’d like to move everything over to Ignition.
Ignition has drivers that vary in support for different PLC platforms based on what features the PLC supports. For example:
- Allen Bradley ControlLogix/CompactLogix: Browse and add tags from Ignition.
- Siemens S7-300/400: Direct address using tag addresses manually retrieved from the PLC program.
- Siemens S7-1200 via OPC-UA: Browse and add tags from the OPC-UA tags from Ignition.
- Siemens S7-1500 via OPC-UA: Browse and add any tags from Ignition.
As you can see, it varies based on the PLC. I have not done much on the Omron PLC platform with Ignition, but I do know that a lot of the Sysmac based Omron PLCs have OPC-UA capability which is able to browse and add tags easily. Other Omron PLCs will have to be manually addressed.
Normally if you have a working system that is already talking to the PLC, you can get onto the other system and export the tag list with all the addresses directly from the design software. From there you can either write a script to make a set of tags for Ignition automatically or you can manually add these tags yourself.