Profibus-Connection with NI LabVIEW Runtime-engine

[Wöcki]

Hi,

I have a Profibus network running in our porduction lane.

Now we want to report several states of this production continously.

Therefore I want to connect a desktop-pc via profibus to the PLC. But I want to run the VI on the PC as an application(exe) with the NI LabVIEW runtime engine because I won´t install LabVIEW on this PC. (on my development computer I have LabVIEW 2011)

My question is:

Does the Profibus communication work if I run the VI that way if I add the needed "additional installer" to my installer file?

I´m quite sure that it will work but I want to check this point before ordering a Profibus-Board.

I hope you understand my question and give me a positive answer so I can order an new Profibus-PCI-Board

best regards

Martin

[Christoph_D]

Hi Martin,

the scenario you are describing sounds reasonable and that should work.

But in general, if you buy something at NI you can always call and describe your situation. Either the sales person can help you with your decision or in more complicated cases the sales person redirects you to a support engineer.

Best regards,

Christoph