Good evening Gents,
I am trying to achieve CIP using a KRC4 and a AB Compact GuardLogix PLC and I am having some difficulties.
I have configured standard Ethernet/IP connection between the PLC and robot and that is working correctly, but i cannot seem to get CIP working.
From what I understand, the robot controller has a single IP address that distributes both standard and safe IO packets.
I have followed the instructions in the KUKA Ethernet/IP documentation and believe that i have configured the slave and safety slave tabs correctly in WorkVisual.
However, in Studio 5000 I add a generic ethernet/ip module to handle the standard IO, and this works fine. When i try to add a generic safe ethernet/ip module, Studio 5000 throws an error with an IP conflict - is this the correct way to do it?
Furthermore, when i try to jog the robot in 'start up mode' the drives never turn on. I have a message 'safety stop' on the pendant, however i thought the safety was completely bypassed in startup mode. Is this to do with CIP Safe not being configured correctly?
Any help is much appreciated.