14 June 2011
Reliable function diagnostics is especially important in high-dynamic machines such as those used throughout the printing and paper industry. Balluff has introduced a cost-effective way to detect deviations in quality in the manufacturing process in real-time indirectly through a sensor. With the company’s Dynamic Sensor Control (DSC) compatible sensors, a special Balluff version of standard binary sensors can output not only the switching and error signal, but also warning and trend messages. The increasing contamination of a photoelectric sensor, wandering of a target in the direction of the inductive sensor, for example are events which can be reported in real-time to the controller. All that is required to connect and send the switching signals, error messages and warning is 3-conductor standard cable because the dynamic information is modulated over the standard binary signal. Multi-conductor cables are not required needed.All that is required is a connection to a DSC sensor hub. This collects and condenses the information from up to eight DSC ports to one IO-Link port on the Master, which passes the signals on to the controller over the fieldbus.
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