Out of the control cabinet!

Decen­tralised plants are easier to break down into mod­ules. Changed cus­tomer require­ments or pro­duc­tion needs can be imple­mented more easily because of the flex­i­bility. At the same time, the mod­ular approach saves time and money, as indi­vidual mod­ules can easily be repro­duced. That saves engi­neering and pur­chasing costs. 

The remote I/O system PSSuni­versal 2 pro­vides ben­e­fits in any sit­u­a­tion where plants are dis­trib­uted over a wide area. The com­mu­ni­ca­tion module PSSuni­versal 2 is used for decen­tralised net­working plus the transfer of safety-related and non-safety-related sig­nals at field level. With PSSuni­versal 2, a wide range of appli­ca­tions can be imple­mented by con­necting up to 64 I/O mod­ules. The three-part system design sig­nif­i­cantly reduces the work involved in ser­vice and main­te­nance: diag­nos­tics can be per­formed with extreme pre­ci­sion in the remote I/O system. This enables errors to be located and rec­ti­fied quickly. Users can con­nect the remote I/Os to higher level con­trollers via common indus­trial com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­to­cols. This means it is ide­ally suited for incor­po­ra­tion into existing con­trol archi­tec­tures.

PSSuni­versal 2 processes both safety-related and non-safety-related con­trol sig­nals. Safety and automa­tion are phys­i­cally mixed but log­i­cally sep­a­rated, so operate without feed­back. The merging of automa­tion and safety func­tions along with both tech­nical and mechan­ical improve­ments help users save time and costs right from the plan­ning phase. Users have an effi­cient, open and expand­able system.

Automation in any environment

Pilz has a remote I/O port­folio with pro­tec­tion type IP67 for rugged envi­ron­ments with dust, water and extreme tem­per­a­tures. Thanks to the fully encap­su­lated module elec­tronics, these devices are par­tic­u­larly robust mechan­i­cally: they are pro­tected against dust and tem­po­rary sub­mer­sion and can be used for tem­per­a­tures from
 –30 °C to +60 °C.

As a safe PLC con­troller, PSS67 PLC is suit­able for appli­ca­tions up to the highest cat­e­gory PL e. PSS67 PLC is part of the automa­tion system PSS 4000. It is com­pletely com­pat­ible with other con­trollers in the system and is easy to inte­grate into existing archi­tec­tures. PSS67 PLC has 16 safe dig­ital inputs for the direct con­nec­tion of sen­sors and can be com­bined with the com­pact module PSS67 I/O from Pilz, which for­wards sig­nals from the field.

Pilz is con­tin­u­ously expanding its range of decen­tralised periphery. With the latest addi­tion, the fail­safe ana­logue mod­ules for PSSuni­versal 2, a com­pre­hen­sive port­folio is now avail­able. And Pilz is plan­ning to intro­duce the first remote IO-Link Safety Master by the end of 2024. This means that decen­tralised automa­tion net­works will be even more open – and more attrac­tive.