OMRON EtherNet/IP driver

Observe these guidelines when working with the OMRON EtherNet/IP driver.

Supported controllers

The driver may support these controller families:
  • OMRON® NJ Series
  • OMRON® NX Series
  • OMRON® NU Series
IMPORTANT: The driver has been tested with NJ301-1100 firmware revision 1.09 and NJ101-9000 firmware revision 1.50.

Controller tags import

You can only import tags from
TXT
 files in the offline mode.
IMPORTANT:
Before importing tags:
  1. In Sysmac® Studio, set
    Network Publish
     to
    Publish only
    .
  2. From Sysmac® Studio, export tags to a
    TXT
     file.
For more information, refer to the product documentation.

Data types

The driver supports these data types:
Controller data type
FactoryTalk Optix
 data type
Length
Notes
BOOL
BOOL
1 BIT
BYTE
BYTE
1 BYTE
WORD
UINT16
2 BYTES
DWORD
UINT32
4 BYTES
LWORD
UINT64
8 BYTES
SINT
SBYTE
1 BYTES
INT
INT16
2 BYTES
DINT
INT32
2 BYTES
USINT
BYTE
1 BYTE
UINT
UINT16
2 BYTES
UDINT
UINT32
4 BYTES
LINT
INT64
4 BYTES
ULINT
UINT64
8 BYTES
REAL
FLOAT
4 BYTES
LREAL
DOUBLE
8 BYTES
TIME
DURATION
4 BYTES
DATE
DATE TIME
2 BYTES
Use these data types with
Date and time
 objects, which allow you to set and view date and time data.
TIME_OF_DAY(TOD)
UTC TIME
4 BYTES
DATE_AND_TIME(DT)
DATE TIME
8 BYTES
STRING(256)
STRING-MAX256
256 BYTES
ARRAY 1 dimensional
Type [dimension]
ARRAY 2 dimensional
Type [1st dimension, 2nd dimension]
ARRAY 3 dimensional
Type [1st dimension ,2nd dimension, 3rd dimension]
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