Product Overview
TheAllen-Bradley Ethernet device driver works in conjunction with KEPServerEX to provide data exchange between OPC/DDE clients and Allen-Bradley PLC5/SLC500 compliant PLCs via Ethernet. KEPServerEX automatically optimizes your data acquisition based on client demand. Data integrity is ensured with our extensive error handling.
This driver does not require a Rockwell Automation RSLinx license.
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Performance
- All memory types and data types supported
- Array support
- Multithreaded design allows for simultaneous messaging with multiple PLCs
- 1785 ENET may require PLC firmware upgrades
Supported Devices
- Hardbook SoftPLC
- Micro SoftPLC
- PLC 5/10
- PLC 5/15
- PLC 5/20
- PLC 5/20E
- PLC 5/25
- PLC 5/30
- PLC 5/40
- PLC 5/40E
- PLC 5/60
- PLC 5/80
- PLC 5/80E
- SLC 5/01
- SLC 5/02
- SLC 5/03
- SLC 5/04
- SLC 5/05 Open
- Smart SoftPLC
Available Languages
- English
- German
- Japanese
- Simplified Chinese
Application Support
- DDE Format CF_Text and AdvancedDDE
- NIO Interface for iFIX
- OPC .NET Service (OPC .NET) Version 1.00
- OPC Alarms and Events (OPC AE) Version 1.10
- OPC Data Access (OPC DA) Versions 1.0a, 2.0, 2.05a, and 3.0
- OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) Clients
- SuiteLink and FastDDE for Wonderware
Release Notes
6.5.829.0
6/19/2018
- Fixed an issue where string tags could crash the server.
6.2.460.0
7/6/2017
- Added Chinese language support.
6.0.2107.0
11/15/2016
- IP address octets are properly constrained to a maximum value of 255.
- Added German language support.
- Added Japanese language support.
5.20.396.0
5/3/2016
- Resolved a defect that could cause a crash if a malformed packet with an incorrect header length response was received from the PLC. The driver now ignores the malformed packet.
5.17.495.0
2/24/2015
- Added the SoftPLC device model type to expose the extended address range of SoftPLC controllers. SoftPLC does not support the ASCII memory type.
- Fixed an issue where the PLC5 model could read the wrong memory location for string types beyond element 780.
5.15.585.0
7/22/2014
- Added block read support for string memory type tags to both the SLC 5/05 Open and PLC-5 Family models.
5.10.205
11/13/2012
Added support for Communication Serialization.