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I think you risk butting up against the fundamentally opposite nature of the two forms of redundancy: 1) Safety PLC's use redundancy to ensure equipment shuts down when either the master processor or the safety partner fail. 2) Process PLC redundancy is used to ensure equipment keeps running when ...

I would encourage your end-user to stock up on spares for the MVI-31xx-MCM. Used, if necessary. No one is going to design a new in-rack solution for the SLC family, considering that most of the line's hardware is officially discontinued or end-of-life. Or upgrade to a newer platform. --------- ...

Indeed, the Ethernet/IP protocol specification must be licensed ($600/year, currently) from ODVA. What you are asking is doable but definitely non-trivial. And neither the opening handshake nor the UDP packets carry the definition of the packed I/O data. That must be deciphered from the EDS file for ...