Remote Support of Powerflex 700 Drives

We have a sister plant and their maintenance dept has very little skills in automation and controls.

I am looking for a way to support powerflex 700 drives remotely.

Currently we have 2 gateway computers that we can remote access and it has a pci card for connection to the plant data highway network.

Most processors are slc 5/04 and various models of plc 5 processors. The majority of the i/o and all drives on these systems are on RIO.

Is there anyway to connect to these drives with drive executive over rio? and connect from rio to DH+?

I believe you can use RSLinx Gateway to connect the 2 Linx networks, which would enable you to see both from either side.

No, RIO doesn't have the services to support Drive Executive. see AB Knowledgebase 48439.

Let me understand this correctly, you have a SLC 5/04, connected to a Powerflex through RIO ? You can put a NET-ENI card in the system, talk to the SLC 5/04 through Ethernet and using linx, you can scan the backplane of the 5/04 and see the RIO Scanner module,
which in turn should be connected to your Powerflex!

zerokewl said:

...which in turn should be connected to your Powerflex!

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This is where it breaks down. Yes, its connected but the scanner doesn't know what its connected to.