atlas copco PowerMacs Communications

[Jesse_D]

Hello, 

If you just are looking to do raw ethernet communication we have several shipping examples (help>>find examples in labview) and tons of documents on the web. If you post any problems to the main labview forums you will have a lot of visibility. 

I think one of the TCP client examples that ship with labview will work well for your application. I would just make sure with Atlas that raw TCP messages are used for the data and not an industrial protocol based on TCP. 

[IASControls]

Thank you Jesse...

The problem I have at this moment is that I just called the Atlas Copco Tech support guy and he told me that if I want to receive a live data via the TCP/IP I will need to go into this controller and write do some programming call "OPEN PROTOCOL COMMAND FOR LIVE DATA" and I don't know how to do this... he sent to me the manual but it has 300 pages...hahaha.... once I can configure this controller I will move to LabView TCP/IP programming..... is there any VI example to talk to the Atlas Copco PF4000 controller? or a protocol command programming to configure this?

thank you very much !

[Jesse_D]

No, I am afraid not. 

You might check if the Atlas controller supports an industrial protocol, such as modbus, though. It might be easier to setup an protocol than use raw tcp messages.

Unfortunately we don't have an example just for the Atlas device. If you do end up using raw TCP though the labview setup should be the same as communicating with any other TCP device. You will need to put in logic to parse the data you get from the controller. The information for that will be contained in the manual you have.

[IASControls]

Jesse..

I will check with Atlas Co. about this interface.... thank you for your support !

Take care

[sssidsaxena]

Atlas Copco's PF4000 Controller communicates with Kepware and it transfers Live Tightening Results (LTR). U can select any program out of the programmed Psets by selecting OPN and giving batch size as OPN=BATCHSIZE, 30=5 where 30 is pset having batchsize of 5 tightenings.

I have done in this way only. Hope it will help you people.