Plugin Industry 4.0

Dear Customer,
To meet the requirements of Industry 4.0 a dedicated plugin for RosettaCNC has been developed.
With this plugin your CNC can:

communicate with other systems using the OPC-UA secure industrial protocol
send files to your CNC using FTP or the secure FTPES
send alarm notifications using emails
record CNC events on a CSV file

Using the OPC-UA protocol almost all CNC data can be read from a standard OPC-UA client.

Need help ?
Write in the forum on the www.rosettacnc.com site or send an email to the following address: support@rosettacnc.com, the RosettaCNC development team will be happy to answer you in a short time.

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The plugin works in background and can be executed automatically at startup.
Its settings can be controlled clicking on the tray icon.

After clicking on Settings the a window with multiple tabs will be displayed.

The tab contains the OPC-UA server information.

OPC-UA Server Address: the address that should be used by an OPC-UA client(1) that is used to exchange data with this server.
FTP Server Address: the address that should be used by an FTP client(2) to send files to the CNC
FTP Server Port: the port that can be selected to be used by the FTP server
Username: the username that the OPC-UA client should use when performing the login
Password: the password that the OPC-UA client should use when performing the login
Administrator Password is the password that enables the access to the Settings window. By default it is empty and user does not needs a password to change the settings..

(1) We have tested RosettaCNC OPC-UA server with a few client such as the generic one provided for free by Unified Automation https://www.unified-automation.com/downloads/opc-ua-clients.html.

The tab contains the information about your RosettaCNC board.
Please consider that the IP Address of your RosettaCNC board should be set for the plugin to work properly, while the name can be freely chosen and will be used for email notifications and for the OPC-UA Address Space.

The tab contains the files settings:

The Shared programs directory can be changed to specify in which directory the files sent from FTP clients will be placed.
The Current program directory specify the path of the G-code file currently used by RosettaCNC. Usually this path does not need to be changed.

The tab contains two buttons to handle the log file.
RosettaCNC log file is a CSV file that is used to store all the actions performed by your CNC.

The file has the following format

Date 		; Time 		; Category 	; Event 		; Info
12.04.2019 	; 10:30:15 	; Info		; Logger switched on
12.04.2019 	; 10:30:17 	; Warning 	; CNC Board connected
12.04.2019 	; 10:30:19 	; Info 		; Machine state INIT 	;
12.04.2019 	; 10:30:22 	; Info 		; Machine state IDLE 	;
12.04.2019 	; 10:31:40 	; Info 		; Machine state RUN 	; program name atomic_circle.ngc ; estimated duration 00:00:30
11.04.2019 	; 13:16:25 	; Info 		; Machine state PAUSE 	;
11.04.2019 	; 13:16:26 	; Info 		; Machine state RUN 	; program execution continue
12.04.2019 	; 10:32:11 	; Info 		; Machine state IDLE 	; program atomic_circle.ngc completed successfully
11.04.2019 	; 15:36:32 	; Warning 	; CNC Board disconnected

The tab contains the notifications settings.
The user can simply type its own address in Recipient Addresses and test the notifications immediately clicking on Send test email.
Example: to send every notification to two addresses set Recipient Addresses to Mario <mariocnc@gmail.com>, John <john.smith@yahoo.com>

The default notifications@rosettacnc.com address is provided but the user can freely use a private one.
To use a private address the following data should be set:

Sender Url: the Url used to send the emails. Example: smtps://smtp.gmail.com:465.
Sender Address: the email address used to send the emails. Default: notifications@rosettacnc.com.
Sender Username: the username to use the Sender Address.
Sender Password: the password to use the Sender Address.

The OPC-UA Address Space represents the set of objects and related information that the OPC-UA server makes available to clients.
RosettaCNC OPC-UA server publishes the following variables: Program related variables

ActMainProgramName: the name of the G-code program being executed
ActMainProgramLine: the G-code program line in execution
ActMainProgramEstimatedDuration: the estimated duration in milliseconds of the current G-code program
ActMainProgramStartTime: the UTC DateTime of when the current program has started

General variables

ActFeedRate: the current feedrate
ActSpeed: the current spindle speed
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(1) Methods are showed as pink buttons on UaExpert client.

Open UaExpert application Right click on “Servers” and then on “Add…”

Click on “Double click to Add Server …”

Type the address displayed on the first tab of the plugin settings (see above).

Type your credentials or chose the anonymous access

To connect to the client:

double click on the desired client
ignore possible warning windows, clicking on accept
chose the communication mode and type your credentials or chose the anonymous access

The folder Shared programs directory specified Files Tab can be reached from an FTP client installed in another computer.
This folder has the following structure:

in the main folder you can place the G-code files ready to be used by your CNC
in this folder, every time a new G-code main program is executed a file named current_main_program.ngc is generated. This is the main program currently in execution.
in the sub folder log a .log file is generated. The Log format is described in the Log tab.

Filezilla provides a popular FTP client that can be downloaded from https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client.

In order to connect to RosettaCNC from another PC using a clint such as Filezilla you need to set:

Username and Password: that can be set in the Server Tab
FTP Port: that can be set in the Server Tab
FTP Server address: that is displayed in the Server Tab
RosettaCNC shared files folder: that can be set in the Files Tab.

RosettaCNC Plugin uses the secure industrial protocols OPC-UA and FTPES to be able to communicate with all compatible clients.
To test the communication or when a complete integration is not needed it is possible to use the RosettaCNC Widget to communicate between the CNC and every Windows PC connected to the local industrial network.