Dear Members, I would like to use the PLCNext Axioline PLC to transfer the data between a industrial Robot and DCS and control the Robot operations from PLC. Robot is offering only gRPC Server API. Does PLCNext can work as gRPC Client and get the data from the robot? What hardware components are involved and any example PLCNext Engineer codes are available? Thanks.
Regards
Kaly.
Kaly,
Thank you for your question.
PLCnext can work as gRPC client as the PLCnext runtime has an internal gRPC server to allow access of variables from the PLC GDS (Global data space) via gRPC.
An example using a Python script can be found here: Using gRPC communication So in your instance I would be tempted to say you could create a python script running on the controller to pass data between the Robot and the PLC. However we would need to know more about the application and the products involved before we could provide a more engineered solution.
If you are uncomfortable sharing further details on a public forum. Feel free to send an email with further details to access local technical support - uk-info@phoenixcontact.co.uk
Regards,
Andy
Hi Andy, Thanks very much. We will be integrating ANYbotics ANYmal Robot gRPC server with AVEVA PlantScada SCADA System using PLCNext as gRPC/OPCUA Gateway, I will get in touch once we kick start the project.
Regards
Kaly.