Fanuc Robot Connectivity using Fuuz Gateway

Fanuc Robot Connectivity using Fuuz Gateway

Fanuc Robot Connectivity


Fanuc Robots provide multiple I/O communication ports. 

Warning
Be sure that all Ethernet ports are configured to separate networks

For best results, we suggest using our ModbusTCP or OPCUA drivers to connect to your Fanuc robots directly.

Naturally, the Fanuc robots will provide you the ability to address any of the 10's of thousands of Modbus registers within the controller, depending on the specific robot model. If you want to use OPCUA - you'll need to map your holding register tags, to the OPCUA tags within the robot controller. This can be a manual process, unless your controller provides a method to leverage a pre-configuration file that can be imported to setup your variable addressing.

In our testing, OPCUA works quite well and is highly performant in gathering both Read and Write of data to the register blocks within the Fanuc robot controller.

There are some nuances with the Fanuc controller, in that browsing is not generally supported. Due to this Fanuc limitation, in order to retrieve tag data from the controller, you will need to update the read request through the OPCUA server, to include the register block you want to get back. Detail on how to address the registers can be found in the attached manuals, or your own manual. If you need additional information, you'll need to contact Fanuc support to acquire your manual and if you need assistance with figuring out how to configure this - just submit a support ticket to our team.

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