Driver for Beckhoff PLC's
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scott.jenkins@basf.com
Currently have to use kepware's driver for Beckhoff PLC, and would be great to have a direct connection using a driver in Ignition
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Matt Johnson
Would like to bump this again
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Paul Mangels
Would like to bump this again - having native ADS driver support would be great. It would make integrating Beckhoff PLCs a lot easier and make it a better sell to use Ignition with Beckhoff. I know most Beckhoff PLCs use an OPC UA server to talk to Ignition, but having an ADS driver that works like the Rockwell one would be awesome.
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Yurika Iwase
Is this suggestion going to be approved by IA soon?
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Ray Crowder
ADS support would be fantastic!
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Tim Kelch
Fully support. Twincat HMI tools are still kinda seem like a work-in-progress - IA far surpasses them.
An ADS driver would allow for near real-time control - which has all types of merit for direct connection (same as if a EtherNet/IP driver was created). I fully understand this opens a whole new can of worms - but it'd be a useful can if more determinism and speed is desired.
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nskoog
I agree, it would be great to have direct ADS connectivity from Ignition to Beckhoff PLC's. No OPC software needed on the PLC side.
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malcolm
It is possible to install the Beckhoff OPC UA Server on the Ignition Gateway (or another PC) and communicate with multiple Beckhoff PLC's from there over ethernetand there native ADS protocol. This then only requires one OPC UA Licence to be purchased for a site.
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WAnderson
A native driver would be handy. A present alternative is to use Beckhoff's TF6100 OPC-UA supplement/function server (there is a licensing fee as well as disk space and processing load cost for this) on the Beckhoff PLC and then connect Ignition to it as an OPC-UA client.