Rockwell Automation 1789-L10_L30_L60 SoftLogix 5800 System User Manual User Manual

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Communicate with Devices on a ControlNet Network

Appendix B

6. Click Connection to complete creating TagB.

The Consumed Tag Connection dialog box appears.

7. Enter the Producer controller’s name (Soft1) in the Producer field and the

tag to be consumed (TagA) in the Remote Data field and click OK.

For more detailed information on how to create Produced/Consumed
tags, see Logix5000 Controllers Produced and Consumed Tags
Programming Manual, publication

1756-PM011

.

Soft2 Controller - Consumes TagA and
Stores it in TagB

IMPORTANT

Produced/Consumed tags can be created only offline and use the
Scheduled portion of ControlNet bandwidth. After creating and
downloading these tags, the network must be rescheduled.

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