• Balluff India

Interface For Automation, IO-Link

The performance capability of modern machines and systems in factory and process automation has increased remarkably in recent years and decades. The machines are not only faster, smaller and more reliable, they have at the same time become safer and above all more flexible. Economic forces lead to high demands on availability of the equipment. Here also enormous improvements have been made. This kind of progress has been triggered and made possible to no small degree by innovation in automation technology. All the levels of automation technology, from control technology to field bus or the sensor/actuator level, have been involved. There was one area where progress has not so far kept pace: The interface connecting the sensors/actuators to the automation systems. But the IO-Link interface eliminates the bottleneck on the sensor/actuator level and makes the binary point-to-point connection dialog-capable. It replaces complex interfaces with a 3-wire standard cable and allows consistent parameterisation and di