Production plant and method for operating a production plant having a robot and a programmable logic controller with relative addressing

Abstract

A method for operating a production plant having a robot and a programmable logic controller, wherein the robot is designed to apply multiple technologies and multiple functional units, wherein a communication between the robot, a functional unit assigned to the robot and the programmable logic controller takes place via a field bus, comprises, for initialization of the robot, allocating signal declarations for the technologies and signal declarations for the functional units a plurality of address ranges, comprising address fields, that can be accessed via the field bus, and allocating the signal declarations of each technology and the signal declarations of each functional unit a starting address, wherein the respective starting address is defined and called relative to a permanently defined reference address.

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