Ken Roach
Lifetime Supporting Member + Moderator
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 ?
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 ?