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Support Questions / Advanced HMI as soft-PLC?
« on: March 12, 2013, 05:59:54 PM »
Can Advanced HMI be used as a soft-PLC using Allen Bradley remote I/O?
I'm sure this is possible with Modbus/TCP, since the dev environment is completely flexible and any logic can be done once the I/O is pulled in. But can it be used to talk to a string of Flex I/O behind a 1794-AENT? Is the Ethernet/IP driver implemented such that it can replace a controller and pull data directly from remote I/O?
If not, are there any plans to do this? Seems like it could open a new avenue for Advanced HMI as a total logic and visualization package.
I'm sure this is possible with Modbus/TCP, since the dev environment is completely flexible and any logic can be done once the I/O is pulled in. But can it be used to talk to a string of Flex I/O behind a 1794-AENT? Is the Ethernet/IP driver implemented such that it can replace a controller and pull data directly from remote I/O?
If not, are there any plans to do this? Seems like it could open a new avenue for Advanced HMI as a total logic and visualization package.