Panasonic FP0 Series - Manual (Page 21)

Control CommX, PCWAY, OPC Server
Visualisation software for ready made or customised solutions
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The connection in ActiveX technology.
■ Connects your Visual Basic application to Matsushita PLCs.
■ Gives you the possibility to easily develop highly customised control solutions.
■ Create your own application very quickly by simply adding the functionality of ActiveX control to your code written with
Visual Basic.
■ No knowledge of MEWTOCOL (Matsushita's PLC communication protocol) needed.
Control CommX
Add-on software for Excel to monitor and change PLC data.
■ The Excel add-in software PCWAY is available for data collection of the networked
PLCs. The contents of the PLC bits and data registers can be simply shown and
managed on Excel worksheets.
■ Settings in PCWAY can be used to switch display contents and character colour
corresponding to contact on/off status and register values, and perform calculations
based on register values. Excel macros are not necessary.
PCWAY
The connection between PLC and SCADA software.
■ Provides a standard interface between our FP Series PLCs and various
SCADA/HMI software* used to build a monitoring system compliant
with commercially available OPC clients. It is also possible to use OPC
automation interface to link our FP series PLCs with Visual Basic.
■ OPC (OLE for Process Control) is an interface standard for linking
software with various companies’ control devices. This standard
allows connections between OPC-compliant products.
MEWTOCOL OPC Server
Initial Setup in Visual Basic Configuration of Communication Register of Various Programming
Setup Process
Communication Types
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Completion
Remote
supervisory
control
Plant Plant Plant
* We have confirmed linking with iFIX Ver.2.6 (Intellution),
InTouch Ver.7.0 (Wonderware), and RSView32 Ver.6.3 (Rockwell Software).
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