New IO-Link Products – August 2023
There are ten (10) new IO-Link products to announce this month, including those from: microsonic, Siemens, SICK, Leuze, HBK, Balluff, and Renesas.
There are ten (10) new IO-Link products to announce this month, including those from: microsonic, Siemens, SICK, Leuze, HBK, Balluff, and Renesas.
Ethernet-APL is an incredible advancement in networking. And the PROFINET protocol includes the features needed to operate a plant with maximum efficiency. Now let's look beyond what's possible at the protocol level.
New products this month include: new I/O modules from Belden; a new MTP Suite from COPA DATA; omlox hub software and omlox core zone hardware from TRUMPF Tracking Technologies; PROFIsafe encoders from TR electronic; and MTP training from Semodia.
The PROFIBUS Group (UK) will participate at MachineBuilding.Live on October 4, 2023. The event is being held at a venue much favored by engineers of all disciplines: the acclaimed National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham.
After 12 years at the helm, longtime PI Chairman Karsten Schneider handed over the reins to Xaver Schmidt, who was unanimously elected as the new Chairman. Topics like process automation and network security were focal points during the many discussions.
New products this month include: an IO-Link configurator from PocketCodr; IO-Link Masters and IO-Link Safety from Phoenix Contact; load cells with IO-Link from Mettler Toledo; functional safety and Ethernet-APL evaluation boards from MESCO; and indicators and converters for IO-Link and PROFINET from motrona.
Sometimes wires just are not an option and there is a need for a wireless solution. Such is the case in this application story where an adaptive packaging machine required wireless to meet its performance goals. See how IO-Link Wireless helped meet the company's objectives.
The annual independent notary recording of installed products with interfaces using technology from PROFIBUS & PROFINET International (PI) yielded very positive numbers for 2022. This is especially true for PROFINET and IO-Link, but PROFIsafe achieved a considerable increase over the previous year as well.