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Develop Safety Applications Chapter 6
Consume Safety Tag Data
Follow these steps to consume data produced by another controller.
1. In the consumer controller’s project, create a user-defined data type
identical to the one created in the producer project.
2. Right-click Controller Tags and choose New Tag.
3. Set the Type as Consumed, the Class as Safety, and the Data Type to the
user-defined data type you created in step 1 .
4. Click Connection to open the Consumed Tag Connection dialog box.
5. From the Producer pull-down menus, select the controller that produces
the data.
6. In the Remote Data field, enter the name of the produced tag.
7. Click the Safety tab.
TIP The user-defined type can be copied from the producer project
and pasted into the consumer project.