This tutorial shows how to use the Industrial Edge applications MELSEC Connector to establish a connection between an Industrial Edge Device (IED) and a 3rd party PLC that supports MELSEC. These PLC variants are supported:
- Mitsubishi FX5U
- Mitsubishi L02
- Mitsubishi Q00U
- Mitsubishi FX3U
- Mitsubishi IQR
The MELSEC Connector is an application that runs on the individual IED. Connections can be configured using the Common Configurator for industrial Edge. The connector transfers the value series of selected data points from a PLC to the Databus. From there the data can be used within other Edge apps, e.g. the Flow Creator.
Here we configure a connection to a Mitsubishi IQR PLC using the Connector for MELSEC. The data is published on the Databus. By using the application Flow Creator, we fetch the metadata of the MELSEC Connector, write some data on the configured tags and the read out the new data.
- Access to an industrial Edge Managment (IEM) with onboarded Industrial Edge Device (IED)
- IEM: Installed system configurator for Databus
- IED: Installed system app Databus
- IED: Installed app Connector for Melsec
- IED: Installed app Common Configurator
- IED: Installed app Common Import Converter
- IED: Installed app IIH Semantics
- IED: Installed app Flow Creator
- IED: Installed app IIH Essentials (optional)
- IED is connected to the Mitsubishi FX5U PLC via Ethernet
- GX Works2 project loaded on PLC
- Google Chrome (Version ≥ 72)
- Industrial Edge Management (IEMV) V2.4.0-11
- Industrial Edge Device (OS) V2.3.0-13
- Databus V3.0.1
- Common Configurator V2.0.1
- Connector for MELSEC V1.0.0-0
- Flow Creator V1.17.1-1
- IIH Essentials V2.0.1
- PLC: Mitsubishi IQR
- GX Works2
The used PLC project Melsectest.gx3 can be found in the src folder.
You can find further information about the following steps in the Configuration documentation:
As soon as the MELSEC Connector is configured, data can be transfered.
You can find further information about how to handle the data via the Flow Creator in the Usage documentation:
You can find further documentation and help in the following links
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