Communication Plug-ins
MERLIC provides the some standard communication plug-ins that can be used immediately after the installation. Most of them are implemented for the communication via specific types of protocols and clients to control and monitor the vision system whereas the "save-results" plug-in can be used to save data on disk.
Communication plug-ins can be configured on the "Communication" tab of the MERLIC RTE Setup. For more information, see Setting Up Communication Plug-ins.
When a plug-in is started, it will be executed in a host process of MERLIC RTE. In addition, it will receive "events" from MERLIC to monitor the vision system and can post "actions" to control MERLIC.
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This plug-in enables the communication with a Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC PLC via the MELSEC (MC) protocol.
This plug-in enables the communication with a Schneider Electric Modicon®* PLC via the Modbus protocol.
This plug-in uses MQTT to interact with external components. MQTT is an open OASIS and ISO standard for information exchange between (I)IoT devices.
This plug-in provides an OPC UA server that can be used to integrate MERLIC as a machine vision system into a manufacturing machine and set up the communication to an OPC UA client.
This plug-in exposes a subset of the C API for the communication plug-in development in the form of a RESTful API, including a built-in example web application.
This plug-in saves data contained in MVApp results to a configurable directory on disk.
This plug-in enables the communication with programmable logic controllers (PLCs) or other hardware using Industrial Edge Connector apps.
This plug-in enables the communication with the Siemens PLCs SIMATIC S7-1200 and SIMATIC S7-1500 via the SIMATIC S7 communication protocol.
* Modicon® is a registered trademark of Schneider Electric USA, Inc.
