Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

 

I am new to IOC and PLC programming, so forgive me if this is a newbie question. I search Tech Talk but did not see an answer.

 

I am working on a project where we will be receiving CIP (Common Industrial Protocol) data. The CIP data stream is not consider critical and is for reference only. Due to reasons beyond my control, the CIP data will need to be processed by a program (IOC) and not a PLC. I have written an IOC program (C/C++) that receives/sends data to our Allen Bradley PLC using the Ethernet/IP driver. Can the Ethernet/IP driver be configured to receive CIP data, thereby looking and acting like a PLC? Or is there another IOC layer/driver that could provide this ability? Or is there another solution that I am overlooking?

 

Many thanks.