Anybody have experience with using GE ME view screens with a compact logix L32E. I have an application where the customer wants 9 screens. One at each unit and a system screen to display the unit information. I tried setting up Arrays to minimize traffic but to no avail. GE array support has a problem. I can read each tag individually tho. I end up with 8 screens requesting 300 tags each and the system about 600. It is killing my ethernet bandwith. I have started to pare it down.

Any help would be appreciated.

Ps: I am using a manged switch and configured for fix I/p with the PLC as the gateway.

Never used GE ME, so this may not be applicable.
Is it possible to have one system unit read all the tags from the PLC, and have the other units read the data form the system unit?

Maybe the GE software will use arrays properly if you configure it to read as though it's communicating to an SLC-5/05 or PLC-5E with EtherNet/IP.

Configure PLC/SLC addresses equivalent to ControlLogix arrays in RSLogix 5000, and you might have a more efficient communication method.

If the GE software uses only the old A-B Ethernet proprietary protocol (called CSPv4) it might not work correctly to have the Logix emulating PLC/SLC controllers.

I'm not sure but someone tell me only the last version of Poficy ME can support logix series.

I may try the suggestion of Ken R. on making them PLC5 tags. I was looking to make sure that my AB stuff was set up correctly. GE is coming in Monday to look at it. This may be a case where the added cost of the AB PV would have saved me time in test.

I check with my program (proficy version 5.50) and the driver is AB CLGX. Do you see this driver? If not, what is your version ? Do you use Quick panel or quick panel view touch screen? Maybe I'll be able to help you.

Bye

I am running Proficy 5.5 sim8. I have requested 5.6 cd. The screen is a View (CE) screen. IC754VSICTD. I amusing the CLX driver under AB Ethernet I/P. I have three issues.
1. The array read under this driver reads the first tag and what ever the value of that tag is, proficy populates the array with that value. So if the first value is 100, The array reads back OIM[100,100,100,100], rather than the next value. So I had to go to individual tags.
2. I set up more than one device so that I could have faster updates of control tags over the metering dispay tags. This works on a couple of screens but not all, even though the projects were cloned from one that worked.
3. I have problems where one view screen is setting tags other than its own. I can actually see in the plc where one of the view screens is setting tags that are not even in its application.

I have looked at trying to convert to PL5 or SLC500 tags however this means reprogramming every tag in the base application. But given the way Proficy handles tags I have been reluctant. GE is sending some tech guys down to look at it today. I will post what they find. If they can't make it work, I am screwed big time. I have two lineups that have already shipped and 3 more in production. The threshold seems to be 5 screens and 4 ab flex i/o drops. After that the system becomes unreliable.

Thanks for the input

Slcman I re read your note. I only have AB TCPIP driver. No dedicated CLX driver. See version above.

Well I finally got it working. What I ended up doing is putting a network analyzer on the ethernet and found some interesting stuff. The Ethernet flex I/O updates individually. You set the update rate on the ethernet module but that only controls the outputs. I am used to the RIO modules where the update rate was for the whole drop. Once I scaled all of the I/O back I was able to open up a ton of bandwidth.

On the Ge side I found that the feature of conditional scan and update does not work. The application in fact updates at the rate defined for the target. But it updates all tags. Now I understand why they have the delete unused tags feature. You need to do this on large applications. I will have to change how I do things. Working great now.