{"id":73,"date":"2020-04-13T22:58:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T22:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxhelpdev.wpengine.com\/?post_type=epkb_post_type_1&#038;p=73"},"modified":"2026-09-01T17:52:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T23:52:01","slug":"fanuc-i-series-with-ethernet-focas2","status":"publish","type":"epkb_post_type_1","link":"https:\/\/dxhelp.scytec.com\/?epkb_post_type_1=fanuc-i-series-with-ethernet-focas2","title":{"rendered":"Fanuc Controls With FOCAS Support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many Fanuc controls offer the ability to communicate over standard Ethernet using FOCAS1 or FOCAS2 drivers.\u00a0(FANUC Open CNC API Specification version 1 or 2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Utilizing the FOCAS capabilities information such as equipment status, part counts, overrides, and alarm information can be obtained without adding any hardware or software to the control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In order for DataXchange to communicate with a Fanuc control, the control must be correctly configured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An explanation of configuring older FOCAS1 controls can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/support.scytec.com\/portal\/en\/kb\/articles\/how-to-configure-older-fanuc-controls-focas1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An explanation of configuring FOCAS2 controls can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/support.scytec.com\/portal\/en\/kb\/articles\/configuring-the-fanuc-31i-control\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Many Fanuc controls offer the ability to communicate over standard Ethernet using FOCAS1 or FOCAS2 drivers.\u00a0(FANUC Open CNC API Specification version 1 or 2) Utilizing the FOCAS capabilities information such as equipment status, part counts, overrides, and alarm information can be obtained without adding any hardware or software to the control. In order for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"epkb_post_type_1_category":[16],"epkb_post_type_1_tag":[],"class_list":["post-73","epkb_post_type_1","type-epkb_post_type_1","status-publish","hentry","epkb_post_type_1_category-fanuc-focas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxhelp.scytec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/epkb_post_type_1\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxhelp.scytec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/epkb_post_type_1"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxhelp.scytec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/epkb_post_type_1"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxhelp.scytec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxhelp.scytec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dxhelp.scytec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/epkb_post_type_1\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2627,"href":"https:\/\/dxhelp.scytec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/epkb_post_type_1\/73\/revisions\/2627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxhelp.scytec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"epkb_post_type_1_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxhelp.scytec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fepkb_post_type_1_category&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"epkb_post_type_1_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxhelp.scytec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fepkb_post_type_1_tag&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}