IO-Link sensors from ifm open up completely new possibilities for the user. From easy and quick setup to additionally available machine monitoring data to process transparency from the machine level to the ERP software: IO-Link offers convincing efficiency gains and cost savings.
Manufacturing plants worldwide are increasingly relying on high-performance data and information technology to improve their overall equipment efficiency. IO-Link’s breakthrough technology enables sensors to simultaneously transmit diagnostic information to the PLC and to higher-level IT infrastructures.
What does IO-Link offer users?
- An IEC 61131-9 global standard digital communication protocol.
- An easy-to-set-up point-to-point communication, not a fieldbus.
- A technology that can be connected to control systems with Ethernet-based fieldbus systems (such as EtherNet/IP, PROFINET, AS-i).
How do users benefit from IO-Link?
- Uses standard, unshielded M8 or M12 cables of up to 20 metres.
- Allows devices to send and receive significantly more data.
- Receive digital measured values and process data from the sensor without any conversion losses.
- Parameter setting and monitoring via software.
- Reading and logging of event and diagnostic data.
- Binary use of sensors in SIO mode.
- Use of additional digital functions in COM mode.
Bottom line
IO-Link provides an easy and comfortable way to build a future-proof foundation for smart industrial automation.
