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3 Tips to Evolve Your Ignition System's Communication to PLCs

33 min video  /  1 minute read
 

Speakers

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Jay LaFave

Project Engineer

DMC, Inc.

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Elizabeth (Hill) Reed

Project Engineer

DMC, Inc.

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Paul Mangels

Systems Engineer

DMC, Inc.

In this session, you'll get some great Ignition tips for communicating to PLCs. You'll learn about writing to separate tags to ensure data integrity and robust logic, leveraging direct OPC reads to obtain data synchronization, and using JSON-derived tags to reduce communication load with a PLC-hosted OPC UA server.

Posted on November 9, 2021

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