Guidelines for Control System Interfacing

Use the following guidelines to interact with a control system.

1. Select the PLC and develop the required phase logic.

2. Select an I/O Server for your PLC (Available from your distributor).

3. Use the Tag Linker Access Editor dialog box to define an Access Name for the I/O Server.

4. Use the Tag Linker View Filter Selection dialog box to select tags.

5. Assign the appropriate Item Names to the tags.

6. Configure parameters if necessary (such as scaling).

7. Perform Tag Linker validation.

8. Perform Tag Linker Runtime Export.

9. If tags are required in the InTouch HMI, use the InTouch DBLoad utility to import the .csv file.

10. Configure one instance of IBCli for each Access Name.

11. In the Environment Display dialog box, click Update > Runtime.