The Fanuc robot quipped with a Profinet communication card is a lot more expensive then the standard version that comes with TCP/IP. Would this be possible? I saw that the S7-1516 processor has the option of adding a communication processor that has Industrial Ethernet. FANUC LVC is the perfect solution for operations that require increased accuracy at high speeds. The software, which is unique to FANUC, allows the robot to learn its vibration characteristics using an accelerometer, optimise its path and reach higher accelerations while keeping vibration to a minimum, even at maximum speed.
I'm working for the first time with an ABB IRC5 Robot controller that is using Beckhoff I/O modules with ProfiNet buscouplers, and I hope somebody in the Forum can help get me over the initial communications setup hurdles.The IRC5 robot controller has a Siemens CP1616 ProfiNet card installed in a PCI slot, which ABB calls a DSQC 678.The ProfiNet network consists of that CP1616 card, two Beckhoff BK9103 ProfiNet bus couplers, one Beckhoff BK9053 ProfiNet bus coupler, and an SMC Pneumatics EX260 valve manifold on ProfiNet.I've never used these devices together and am a novice also with Step7. Documentation from ABB and from Beckhoff simply says 'use Step7 Hardware Configuration to configure the CP1616' and tells you to go read Step7 documentation to figure out how.The system came from the OEM with the CP1616 configured to scan just one of the Beckhoff BK9103 adapters. We know this works. We can see physical sensor states changing in Robot Studio.I want to upload the working configuration before I start trying to add the rest of the I/O adapters to the configuration.I have Step7 5.5 installed on a Windows 7 32-bit VMWare virtual machine. It's configured as a static IP bridged to the physical Ethernet network. I have installed the GSDML files for all of the Beckhoff and SMC devices.I can PING the CP1616 at 192.168.0.1 and can see its built-in web page. I can also PING the Beckhoff BK9103 bus coupler.I can use Step7's Hardware Configuration tool to see the status of the various ports on the CP1616.
It even tells me the name and MAC of the Beckhoff device in the daisy-chain on the X1 port.But that's where my knowledge ends. I can't seem to get any of the topology exploration or 'browsing' functions to work.The basic question is: Does anyone know if a.XDB file or another form of configuration file can be uploaded from a CP1616 like this?JesperMPJuly 22nd, 2014 02:47 AM. Quote:The basic question is: Does anyone know if a.XDB file or another form of configuration file can be uploaded from a CP1616 like this?If I am right in the above, then I think that it should be possible. The OEM was kind enough to send us the Step7 project files this morning, which include the configuration of the Beckhoff buscoupler and the CP1616. It shows me the four Beckhoff K-bus modules and where they've been mapped in CP1616 memory in I and Q registers.I still don't know if you can walk up to one of these machines and upload this information, but at least now I have a backup that I can load if I make mistakes doing the expanded configuration from scratch.Thanks for the input, Jesper.I'll make sure the people who work on it after me have better documentation!JesperMPJuly 22nd, 2014 12:20 PM.
I am guessing the ABB robot looks like a 'Simatic PC Station' to the STEP7 software, despite that it is not really a Windows PC.With the unchanged source project loaded into STEP7, open NetPro ( options. Configure network).Then in NetPro activate view.
With DP slaves / IO devices.And use PLC. Activate connection status.If you then can see the various IO Devices being online, you know that you are online with the ABB controller, and that you have the correct configuration.Is it possible that we could see the 3HAC031975 document?Ken RoachJuly 22nd, 2014 12:34 PM.
Thanks for that procedure. I'm going to try it with the unmodified project now.The copy I found online was the from an FTP crawler. I will check that revision against the one we got on DVD from ABB.I may have more questions about how the I and Q addresses are determined. The single Beckhoff adapter provided by the OEM has just two 8-point digital input modules and two 8-point digital output modules, but the stuff we've added to the ProfiNet includes analog and thermocouple and relay modules.JesperMPJuly 22nd, 2014 02:34 PM. HelloIt seems that this issue is quite similar to the problem I faceI'm trying to Connect ABB IRC5 controller using profinet to Siemens S7-1200 PLCThe PLC is the master and IRC5 is the salve.The IRC5 has 2 options to connect to PROFINET: built-in Field-bus adapter and PCI card - CP1616I've successfully connected it using the Field-bus adapter and it works fine. I've build S7 project using Siemens TIA Portal v13.