OMRON EtherNet/IP driver

Observe these guidelines when working with the OMRON EtherNet/IP driver.

Supported controllers

The driver may support these controller families:
  • OMRON® NJ Series
  • OMRON® NX Series
  • OMRON® NU Series
Important: The driver has been tested with NJ301-1100 firmware revision 1.09 and NJ101-9000 firmware revision 1.50.

Controller tags import

You can only import tags from TXT files in the offline mode.

Important:
Before importing tags:

  1. In Sysmac® Studio, set Network Publish to Publish only.

  2. From Sysmac® Studio, export tags to a TXT file.

For more information, refer to the product documentation.

Data types

The driver supports these data types:
Controller data type FactoryTalk Optix data type Length Notes

BOOL

BOOL

1 BIT

BYTE

BYTE

1 BYTE

WORD

UINT16

2 BYTES

DWORD

UINT32

4 BYTES

LWORD

UINT64

8 BYTES

SINT

SBYTE

1 BYTES

INT

INT16

2 BYTES

DINT

INT32

2 BYTES

USINT

BYTE

1 BYTE

UINT

UINT16

2 BYTES

UDINT

UINT32

4 BYTES

LINT

INT64

4 BYTES

ULINT

UINT64

8 BYTES

REAL

FLOAT

4 BYTES

LREAL

DOUBLE

8 BYTES

TIME

DURATION

4 BYTES

DATE

DATE TIME

2 BYTES

Use these data types with Date and time objects, which allow you to set and view date and time data.

TIME_OF_DAY(TOD)

UTC TIME

4 BYTES

DATE_AND_TIME(DT)

DATE TIME

8 BYTES

STRING(256)

STRING-MAX256

256 BYTES

ARRAY 1 dimensional

Type [dimension]

ARRAY 2 dimensional

Type [1st dimension, 2nd dimension]

ARRAY 3 dimensional

Type [1st dimension ,2nd dimension, 3rd dimension]