TUTORIALS
Point-and-Click Data Exchange
How To Connect
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Establish a connection between the Workbench configuration software and the IIoTA™ / Data Commander™ MES Gateway Appliance.
Point-and-Click PLC Values
into a Database
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Insert data into a database from a PLC in less than two minutes:
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Choose your PLC driver and assign the PLC's IP address
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Connect to the database with its IP address
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Map the PLC values to the database fields with drop-down menus
Connecting to a Device (PLC)
Auto-enumerate (Capture)
PLC Tags/Registers
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The IIoTA™/Data Commander™ comes with drivers for a wide variety of PLCs and machine controls, discovers them, and displays them for point-and-click data exchange with databases.
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Since these are native device drivers, the IIoTA™/Data Commander™ can communicate directly to the device via the native language.
How to Connect to a SQL Server Database
(Create a Transport)
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This video demonstrates how to connect the IIoTA™/Data Commander™ MES Gateway Appliance to a Database server on the IT (Enterprise) side.
A Transport is a connection to a database server. The goal is to get information to and from the database server and that starts with a connection.
Create a Select Action
(Transport Map)
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How to select information
from a database server. Once read from the database, write it to a device (PLC).
Why? Read recipe information from the database side into the PLC side.
Benefit: Instantly transfer recipe modifications across the entire facility.
Create a Select Action
from Multiple Rows
(Transport Map)
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How to select information from
multiple rows in a database server and write the changes to a device (PLC).
With the IIoTA™/Data Commander™, modifications to the database can easily and quickly be written to the device (PLC).
Create an Insert Action
(Project)
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Learn how to create an Insert Action.
Monitor PLC bits to Insert production values into a database. Entering real-time production data from the PLC into the database guarantees traceability of all the parameters used in the production.
Create an Event-Based Select Trigger
(Project)
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How to create an event-based select trigger. This video demonstrates, how to get data from the data table and write it to a device (PLC). Plus, learn how to set up WATCH variables and reports for debugging.
Create a Listener: Part 1
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How to create a listener. What is a listener. Why use a listener.
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The IIoTA™/Data Commander™ can be used to connect a scanner or any legacy devices that have been added to the line by setting up a listener.
Create a Listener: Part 2
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How to create a listener map.
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The listener map will be used with the listener trigger to move data from the IIoTA™/Data Commander™ into the device (PLC).
Create a Listener: Part 3
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How to create a listener trigger.
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Learn how to take a QR code value that's coming into the IIoTA™/Data Commander™ and move it into the PLC.