The OMRON-Xplorer interface is suitable for the acquisition of measured data with ibaPDA from an OMRON controller via an Ethernet connection and using the FINS protocol.

The data is cyclically read by ibaPDA instead of being sent by the PLC.

Interface configuration

Start acquisition even if a CPU is not accessible

Enable this option to start the acquisition even if a CPU is not accessible. Instead of an error, an warning is prompted in the validation dialog.

If the system has been started without a connection to the CPU, ibaPDA tries to connect to the PLC at regular intervals. The measured values stay at zero as long as the PLC is disconnected.

Allow inaccessible operands

Enable this option to start the acquisition even if operands are not accessible. The inaccessible operands are prompted as warnings in the validation dialog instead of errors. If this option is disabled and inaccessible operands are present, then the acquisition will not start.

<Open log file>

If connections to controllers have been established, all connection specific actions are recorded in a text file. Using this button, you can open and check this file. In the file system on the hard disk, you find the log files of this interface in the path …\ProgramData\iba\ibaPDA\Log. The file name of the current log file is InterfaceLog.txt; the name of the archived log files is InterfaceLog_yyyy_mm_dd_hh_mm_ss.txt.

<Reset statistics>

Click this button to reset the calculated times in the table to zero.
Connection table

For information about the connection table, see Connection table.
Available modules

  • OMRON FINS Module
Product name

ibaPDA-Interface-OMRON-Xplorer (Art. no. 31.000035)