IFM AL1322 IO-Link Master to Logix: Automation Tech Talk for 09/11/25

Shawn walk’s through connecting an IFM AL1322 IO-Link Master to a Rockwell Logix PAC using Studio 5000 in today’s episode of #AutomationTechTalk Lunchtime Edition livestream:

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Shawn Tierney (Host):  Happy afternoon, everybody. Shawn Tierney here from Insights and Automation. Today is Thursday. What is today? September 11, I believe.

I hope you all are having a great day. And, you know, I didn’t even know if I was gonna be able to do this, give it everything that’s been going on. Plus, I just got off the phone, actually off of out of a meeting with a larger vendor talking about their brand new IO, which I’ll be covering in a few weeks. Pretty awesome stuff. Can’t wait to share it with you guys.

But in any case, if you were here yesterday, I actually ended up deleting the livestream after the livestream because I ran into an issue that something didn’t work. And I believe I resolved that. So I’m gonna try it again today. And what am I talking about? What are we gonna cover?

Well and, again, if you can’t hear me or if there’s a problem with the visuals, let me know in the chat because there’s no nobody in the control room. It’s all just me. But in any case, we’re gonna be integrating these two. I have, a long time ago, the folks over at, IFM sent me in some products. They didn’t sponsor any coverage on it, and I’ve really struggled covering it.

So I did cover these modules with a, with a, a PLC they sent me, and I did, cover these devices with Allen Bradley and Siemens products as dumb devices, not as IO Link devices. But I thought, you know, the automation, automation tech talk lunchtime edition, I think, would be a great time to cover some of these unsponsored products that have been piling up, and I try not to accept anymore because I’m out of room. But in any case, it’s it’s, I thought this would be a good time to test them out. And today, based on what happened yesterday, today, I’m going to try to get both of these set up on our CompactLogix. Now try to go back here to full screen.

What happened yesterday was Logix kept crashing, and I believe it’s because of, Connect Components Workbench when I upgraded it and installed something that was incompatible with the version of Logix I had. So we’ll find out. But in any case, let’s go over to the computer here, and I have to do this kind of a different way because if I do it through the camera system, I do have a I do have an, request into the company, this whose software this is, and it’s not showing me the view I wanted. That’s the view I wanted. But I’m like, guys, you gotta help me make my you know, zoom in on this camera, but in any case, I won’t, bother you with that.

What we are looking at here, though, is what’s the first step in getting these things to work? And the first step is where’s the web page I had up? K. We gotta go to the product’s web page, and on the product’s web page, we wanna grab a couple of downloads. Okay.

If we’re gonna integrate these, IO link blocks on EthernetIP to our CompactLogix, we’re gonna wanna get the download. So this is the web page. After the fact, this is an AL thirteen twenty two. After the fact, I’ll go and put all links. And, again, I ran right over here from the meeting I just had, so I didn’t have a chance to put those links in.

But any case, we wanna go to downloads. And the two downloads I needed, and I apologize if you caught yesterday’s show. I’m gonna repeat myself a little bit, but I got the Allen Bradley collection here. Right? And I also got the, NetSetter software.

K. So this allows me to configure the device’s IP address. Okay. Now I don’t know if both of these are set up or not. So let me minimize that, and let’s go over to, the net set of software, which I just opened.

Right? Unzipped it, and you get this error here. I didn’t show this yesterday. You gotta have a PCAP library. Now PCAP, if you’re not familiar with that, packet packet captures.

Right? Capturing packets as they go down your Ethernet. Okay? So we need to have, some software that does that. So let me close that, and they they recommended two different ones.

I just went and got WinPCAP. It seemed like, seems like good software. And, no. I don’t wanna start it all the time, and finish. Now let’s go back to the NetSetter, IFM NetSetter here, and let me know if I’m leaving anything out.

I’m kinda did this yesterday, so I wanna make sure I’m being clear on what I’m doing here. And what we’re looking for let me go back to the overhead, and nope. That’s not what I wanted. Let’s do this. K.

So these are the a l. Let’s see if I can get an even closer here, and I don’t have the overhead lights on. I feel like I’m missing a light, but in any case, let this one be easier. So you can see that this is the Ethan IP version of the a l thirteen twenty two. So I also have PROFINET versions of this, and maybe I’ll do those next week.

We’ll see how things go. But I wanted to show you guys that, and let me back that out. Alright. Excellent. So let’s go back over to it it hides that view.

Okay. And now we can see the net setter. Alright. So let’s go ahead and run a scan here and see if the IFM nets, and it says, the installed PCAP library has been restricted to limited to admin rights. I’m also got this security.

I’m gonna get rid of that. There we go. And it says, hey. The PCAP library you guys see in this has been, restricted to to admin rights. And saying I won’t find anything pro profi profinet if it’s restricted to that.

So let me go ahead and see if it’s running. Let’s see here. PCAP, when PCAP? K. Let’s run this as an administrator.

K. It’s saying it’s already installed. So windows, why didn’t you find it? You always get you had to love that. Let’s go down to the w’s.

There she is. Now see, I don’t see, I don’t see an executable to allow that. So we’re just gonna press on here. I don’t wanna get stuck with any of those issues. Let’s go ahead and do a scan.

And I know it saw my 7069 l 30 e r, and it’s not finding these because I just wired them up. Again, I just run-in here, and so I did not put power back on. Looks like no smokes coming out. I shouldn’t joke about that. We had a fire alarm today, which also kinda threw a cold curveball in.

But, in any case, Yeah. Now they’re coming up. K. Let’s see here. It does seem like it’s cutting off part of my screen.

Why is it why would it do that? Stream. Yeah. What’s wrong with you? Maybe it’s just the browser I’m in.

Alright. So you can see it found them. And you know what? I wanna make one of these one thirty 1, and, the other one’s already 132. So I’ll make one one thirty one, right to device, and 132.

So that’s how you configure these out of the box. That’s how you would set them up. And so now let’s go ahead and, close this up and go to RSLogix. Now to save time, I, just created a blank, l 30 e r program. Okay?

And this is where we were having problems before. I would right click and do new module and I crashed, but one of the things I had to do to make sure this would work before we went live is I wanted to go into the downloads and register the EDS files. K? So inside the starter package for Rockwell, there are EDS files. Right?

And so what I did is I copied this path, and then I ran the EDS hardware, installation tool, or there’s another one called the device, depending on the version of software you have. There’s another one called the device hardware installation tool. Let’s see if we can find that here. Yes. See, this one has the EDS one.

Sometimes you’ll see the device hardware installation tool. They they do the same thing. They just change the name to device because it can support IO Link as well. So let me go ahead. IO Link uses an IODD.

Oh, speaking of IO Link, let me switch over here. They did not get the IO Link did not get the IO Link episode out last night. I’m hoping to get it out tonight. So, stay tuned if you follow the automation podcast and you look at those kind of technical presentations. We should have the IO link out tonight.

So let me go back to this view. Okay? And we’re going to bring in those EDSs. Now I’ve already done this because I, after what happened yesterday, I want to make sure everything was working, but if you’ve never done this before, I just wanted to walk through it with you. Okay.

And now in Logix, and I may have to close and reopen Logix. I’m hoping I don’t have to. It’s acting a little funny. It’s like refreshing. K.

I’m gonna right click on Ethernet here. I assume it’s already refreshed, and I’m gonna add it in. You can see I already did it once. Oops. Yeah.

It’s it’s definitely host. K. New module. K. AL1322.

It’s been added as an EDS, so there it is. Create and this is where it was crashing yesterday. And what I did with and you see it