Section 1: Introduction
This document will allow the user to setup an Ethernet/IP Tag Datalink (Implicit Messaging)
connection between a Rockwell ControlLogix or CompactLogix PLC and an Omron NX-SL5700
safety CPU, through an NX-CSG320 communications gateway.
In this configuration, the NX-SL5700 is performing the machine safety functions, incorporating
devices such as door switches, safety area scanners, ESTOP buttons, force guided relays,
remote safety IO blocks, robots with CIP Safety capabilities, and other safety components.
The PLC is performing only non-safety functions such as the monitoring of the safety devices for
annunciation on an HMI.
Tags can be mapped from 2 different places when using an NX-CSG320 and an NX-SL5700.
Tags can be mapped from the Safety CPU to the Gateway, and then mapped to Ethernet/IP, or
status information from local NX safety IO connected directly to the NX-CSG320 can be
mapped directly to EtherNet/IP.
This Tag Datalink (Implicit Messaging Connection) will share:
2 boolean data points from the ControlLogix through the NX-CSG320 to the NX-SL5700
6 boolean data points from the NX-SL5700 through the NX-CSG320 to the
CompactLogix
IO Module status from local NX Safety IO from the NX-CSG320 to the CompactLogix.
This document will explain both of these mapping methods.
Note: the names of the NX-SL5700 and NX-CSG320 as shown in Sysmac Studio have been
changed from the default for clarity.