OMRON CHAPTER 16 – Connecting to Omron Industrial Components
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CHAPTER 16
Connecting to Omron Industrial Components
This chapter details connecting CX-Supervisor to Omron's Industrial Components, like Temperature
Controllers, Digital Panel Meters and Timer/Counters. Any process value or parameter from these
devices can be monitored or written. See the device documentation for available parameters and their
description. This is achieved in CX-Supervisor by creating a point and linking it to the required
parameter. Device ranges supported are following models that support communication (where ‘*’
indicated a wildcard):
• K3GN
• E5*N
• E5*J
• E5ZE
• E5*K
• H8GN
• K3N*
• E5ZN
Adding a point linked to a parameter
1, 2, 3…
1. Start CX-Supervisor Development and open your project.
2. Open the Point Editor by selecting the Point Editor option from the Utilities
menu or by clicking the toolbar button.
3. In the Point Editor dialog click the Add Point button in the toolbar to open the
Add Point dialog.
4. In the Add Point dialog move to the I/O Type: options and select the Input,
Output or Input / Output option as appropriate. Note that the I/O Update Rate:
and I/O Attributes: options and displayed.
5. In the I/O Attributes: options select OPC/Other and click the Setup button.
This will open the Communications Control Attributes dialog.
6. In the Communications Control Attributes dialog enter the appropriate
parameters as follows:
Communications Control Attributes
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