How to share DIO between two separate Fanuc Controllers?

alive15 · August 1, 2019 at 11:08 PM

Good afternoon all,

I have two R30iA controllers, and need to share the DIO between the two robots. So robot 2 can see all the i/o from robot 1 and vice versa. How can I accomplish this without having to physically use copper wire from robot 1 i/o card to robot 2's i/o card? Any sort of Ethernet options available?

For example, if my machine sends cycle complete as input to Robot 1, I want Robot 2 to know also, without having to use an output from Robot 1 and a physical wire for only one input into Robot 2. Make sense?

Thanks you.

Nation · August 1, 2019 at 11:44 PM

Ethernet I/P can do this easily. I've done it before when I needed to run a 4 robot cell, and the plc was not setup. One robot will have to have the scanner option installed thought to act as the master. Other robots only need the scanner option.

**Fabian Munoz** · August 2, 2019 at 1:31 PM

alive15

If you have a PLC involved you can just send an output to each robot from the PLC
You need ethernet/ip option on the 3 devices

andreic · August 6, 2019 at 5:25 PM

Another easy option would be EGD I/O.

How to share DIO between two separate Fanuc Controllers?

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