Chapter 42: Industrial communication

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This chapter describes how to use the MIL Industrial Communication module to communicate information to other devices.

• Industrial communication overview
• Steps to perform industrial communication
• Basic concepts for the MIL Industrial Communication module
• Industrial communication with robots
• • Calibration considerations
  • • Calibration by directly mapping the robot coordinate system to the pixel coordinate system
    • Calibration by indirectly mapping the robot and pixel coordinate systems to the world coordinate system
  • Communicating with a robot
  • Orientation conventions
• Industrial communication with PROFINET
• • Setting up the environment
  • Receiving and sending data to the controller
  • • Memory modules and their data fields
• Industrial communication with Modbus
• • Setting up the environment to use the local computer as a Modbus slave
  • Receiving and sending data to the controller as a Modbus slave
  • • Data tables and their data fields
  • Setting up the environment to use the local computer as a Modbus controller
  • Reading and writing to slave devices as a Modbus controller
• Industrial communication with EtherNet/IP
• • Setting up the environment
  • Receiving and sending data to the controller
  • • Assemblies and their data fields
  • Explicit communication with another device on an EtherNet/IP network
• Industrial communication with CC-Link IE Field Basic
• • Setting up the environment
  • Receiving and sending data to the controller
  • • Data tables and their data fields