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January 30, 2023
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Kepware Mitsubishi Driver Ethernet to CC-Link IE-Field

  • January 30, 2023
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I'm currently testing KEPServerEX 6 in a highly Mitsubishi Focused facility. We have many Mitsubishi PLC's but only six are on a ethernet network and are considered "Masters." The majority of the Masters are connected to other Mitsubishi PLC's via CC-Link IE-Field. I have been able to connect to one of the Master PLC's and create tags, data log to sql, etc. I am trying now to pull data (X's and  D's) directly from a PLC on the the CC-Link IE-Field network. For example in the attached picture i'm trying to connect to W/S Station 8. In the Mitsubishi driver I have the ID set to 10.25.0.130:N1:8. The I.P. is the Built in Ethernet Port I.P. on the Master PLC which I can connect to just fine. Then N is Network 1 which is a CC-Link IE-Field Master Card on the Master PLC rack and 8 is Station 8 on the CC-Link IE-FIield. When I try to monitor those the tags in Quick Client I get this error.

Date Time Level Source Event
1/30/2023 12:32:29 PM Error Mitsubishi Ethernet Mitsubishi Q Series.Waste Water 2 | Unable to read from address block on device. The device reported an invalid address or an error. | Address block = 'X0070' to 'X007F'.

 

So is what i'm trying to do even possible or does all of the PLC's have to be on a Ethernet Network that could be multilevel for Kepware to be able to read addresses directly?

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Best answer by cmorehead

@MY_10569467 

 

KEPServerEX does have the ability to poll other OPC servers through the use of one of the Kepware OPC Client Drivers: Here are links to the OPC UA and OPC DA Client Driver product pages:

 

https://www.kepware.com/en-us/products/kepserverex/drivers/opc-ua-client/

 

https://www.kepware.com/en-us/products/kepserverex/drivers/opc-da-client/

 

 

Thanks,

*Chris

 

 

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VladimirN24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
February 1, 2023

 Hi,

 

Try to check "Event Log Messages" in "Mitsubishi Ethernet Driver" manual.

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cmorehead13-Aquamarine
13-Aquamarine
February 1, 2023

Hi @VladimirN


Unfortunately, KEPServerEX does NOT currently support the CC-Link protocol used to connect one Mitsubishi PLC to another Mitsubishi PLC. 

 

Here is a link to the Kepware knowledge base article that covers how to enter an enhancement request to see if the functionality can be added to a future release of the product:

 

https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS295047

 

Thanks,

 

*Chris

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