Rockwell Automation 1768-L45S Compact GuardLogix Controllers - Manual (Page 84)

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Chapter 6 Develop Safety Applications
Consume Safety Tag Data
Follow these steps to consume data produced by another controller.
1. In the consumer controller’s project, create a user-defined data type
identical to the one created in the producer project.
2. Right-click Controller Tags and choose New Tag.
3. Set the Type as Consumed, the Class as Safety, and the Data Type to the
user-defined data type you created in step
1 .
4. Click Connection to open the Consumed Tag Connection dialog box.
5. Select the controller that produces the data.
6. Enter the name of the produced tag.
7. Click the Safety tab.
TIP The user-defined type can be copied from the producer project
and pasted into the consumer project.