Commissioning; Twincat Quick Start - Beckhoff EL2124 Documentation

Commissioning

5 Commissioning
5.1

TwinCAT Quick Start

TwinCAT is a development environment for real-time control including multi-PLC system, NC axis control,
programming and operation. The whole system is mapped through this environment and enables access to a
programming environment (including compilation) for the controller. Individual digital or analog inputs or
outputs can also be read or written directly, in order to verify their functionality, for example.
For further information please refer to http://infosys.beckhoff.com:
• EtherCAT Systemmanual:
Fieldbus Components → EtherCAT Terminals → EtherCAT System Documentation → Setup in the
TwinCAT System Manager
• TwinCAT 2 → TwinCAT System Manager → I/O - Configuration
• In particular, TwinCAT driver installation:
Fieldbus components → Fieldbus Cards and Switches → FC900x – PCI Cards for Ethernet →
Installation
Devices contain the terminals for the actual configuration. All configuration data can be entered directly via
editor functions (offline) or via the "Scan" function (online):
• "offline": The configuration can be customized by adding and positioning individual components.
These can be selected from a directory and configured.
◦ The procedure for offline mode can be found under http://infosys.beckhoff.com:
TwinCAT 2 → TwinCAT System Manager → IO - Configuration → Adding an I/O Device
• "online": The existing hardware configuration is read
◦ See also http://infosys.beckhoff.com:
Fieldbus components → Fieldbus cards and switches → FC900x – PCI Cards for Ethernet →
Installation → Searching for devices
The following relationship is envisaged from user PC to the individual control elements:
84 Version: 5.2 EL20xx, EL2124