Essen\u00adtially, IO-Link Safety is a tech\u00adnology that enables the quick, easy inte\u00adgra\u00adtion of safety sen\u00adsors and actu\u00ada\u00adtors. This offers par\u00adtic\u00adular advan\u00adtages in com\u00adplex plants, such as exten\u00adsive con\u00adveyor sys\u00adtems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Any man\u00adu\u00adfac\u00adturer and system builder that develops and pro\u00adduces large-scale con\u00adveyor sys\u00adtems knows how time-con\u00adsuming the wiring can be. Each sta\u00adtion \u2013 whether it\u2019s an emer\u00adgency stop button, a push\u00adbutton or a status indi\u00adcator on an IO-Link light for example \u2013 usu\u00adally requires sep\u00ada\u00adrate wiring to con\u00adtrol cab\u00adi\u00adnets or decen\u00adtralised mod\u00adules and a cor\u00adre\u00adsponding eval\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion by the con\u00adtroller (stan\u00addard or safety). This level of com\u00adplexity not only slows the project down, but also increases costs, cre\u00adates more poten\u00adtial error sources and makes main\u00adte\u00adnance more dif\u00adfi\u00adcult. In con\u00adtrast, IO-Link Safety saves machine builders time by using a single cable con\u00adnec\u00adtion, capable of han\u00addling both com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtion and safety. That\u2019s because IO-Link Safety can dras\u00adti\u00adcally reduce the instal\u00adla\u00adtion time \u2014 and there\u00adfore also the engi\u00adneering work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Con\u00adveyors, for example, ide\u00adally need to trans\u00adport mate\u00adrial quickly and effi\u00adciently, i.e. without any major dis\u00adrup\u00adtion. This means that man\u00adu\u00adfac\u00adturers, system builders and oper\u00ada\u00adtors of con\u00adveyor sys\u00adtems are often under con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adable time pres\u00adsure because the con\u00adveyors must be up and run\u00adning quickly, while at the same time pro\u00adduc\u00adtion logis\u00adtics must remain secured during oper\u00ada\u00adtion. Strict require\u00adments that IO-Link Safety meets: with plug-and-play wiring and a range of up to 20 metres from the IO-Link Safety Master to the IO-Link Safety Devices \u2013 IOLS sen\u00adsors and\/or IOLS con\u00adtrol units panels \u2013 in the field. Appli\u00adca\u00adtions can be brought into ser\u00advice more quickly thanks to M12 plug-in con\u00adnec\u00adtors and sim\u00adpli\u00adfied device con\u00adfig\u00adu\u00adra\u00adtion. If the con\u00adtrol unit PIT\u00adgatebox IOLS is used as an IOLS device with a point-to-point con\u00adnec\u00adtion to the Master, the range can be even greater. This makes it much easier to design the layout of con\u00adveyor sys\u00adtems, for example, and frees inte\u00adgra\u00adtors from the typ\u00adical infra\u00adstruc\u00adtural con\u00adstraints of hard-wired safety devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Such a high degree of flex\u00adi\u00adbility in the infra\u00adstruc\u00adture sim\u00adpli\u00adfies layout plan\u00adning con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adably, as it is freed from the tra\u00addi\u00adtional lim\u00adi\u00adta\u00adtions of hard-wired safety sys\u00adtems. Another advan\u00adtage is that the IO-Link Safety Master can also be used in rugged envi\u00adron\u00adments thanks to IP67 and IP69K pro\u00adtec\u00adtion \u2013 in met\u00adal\u00adworking for example, where dust or swarf are com\u00admon\u00adplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n