Downtime can be reduced.

Notifies you of faulty parts and such phenomena in the Sensor in real time.

The frequency of sudden failure can be decreased.

Condition monitoring of sensors and equipment to prevent troubles.

The efficiency of changeover can be improved.

The batch check for individual sensor IDs significantly decreases commissioning time.

While the presence or absence of cooling water is checked by means of the ON/OFF-based pressure sensor, it is unable to detect any drop in the flow rate of the cooling water or any rise in the cooling water temperature. For that reason,

· The transformer is not cooled, and gets overheated, potentially leading to sudden stops of the equipment and the entire line.

· The tip may be deformed, causing defective products.

Simultaneous monitoring of the flow rate and temperature changes, and informing of those changes, enable you to carry out predictive maintenance and reduce defective products.

The detection position changes due to wear and vibration in the equipment’s mechanical parts and as a result, false detection and collision with the sensor have a negative impact on the equipment...

Constantly monitoring the position of the sensing object and notifying of excessive remoteness or proximity can be used for predictive maintenance of the equipment.

· In a conveyance process operating for 24 hours, dust or dirt accumulated on the detection surface of the photoelectric sensor, leading to a decline in the light incident level that causes the sensor to make false detection and the equipment to stop...

· Water drops stick to the sensing surface of the reflective sensor causing reflected light to enter...

With a response time of 1 ms, Photoelectric Sensor’s light incident level is output for monitoring. It is output when the light incident level exceeds the instability detection threshold, so you can check the site before false detection occurs and perform predictive maintenance.

· An abnormality was displayed on the abnormality display screen, but upon going to look at the equipment, no external error was detected and the cause of the stop was not understood...

· Those responsible for maintenance investigated the cause of the abnormality from the activity of the stopped equipment, but because the maintenance person relied on the skill he or she has to identify the abnormality and replace the failed sensor, stoppages from 2 hours to several days occur...

When an abnormality occurs in a sensor, because you can see where the abnormality occurred and the factors estimated for it, you can go to where the abnormality occurred and recover the equipment in the shortest amount of time.
Also with wire disconnection detection, not only output wires, but also power lines can be detected unconditionally.

You need a quick recovery but you have only Non-IO-Link sensors with no IO-Link sensors in stock. You probably think in such a case, the control program needs modifications, and requires additional time for the recovery.
With IO-Link Master, since the IO-Link ON/OFF data and the data for Non-IO-Link sensors are located in the same memory, replacement with Non-IO-Link sensors can be carried out without any modification of the control program, resulting in a reduction of the equipment downtime.

· During system start-up or changeover, operators had to perform the I/O check for each of the thousands of sensors installed on the line, and it took an enormous amount of time...

· When a sensor is installed wrong or an error occurs, wasteful work occurred that would normally be unnecessary...

By checking the sensor identification (manufacturer/sensor type/model number), you can easily check mistakes such as misconnected or unconnected sensors and installation mistakes.
Also, because it is possible to program multiple sensors at once using the command language used only for the controller, it is also possible to reduce commissioning time sharply.

For the connection of IO-Link Sensors and IO-Link Masters, two types are available: a screw-less clamp terminal block and an M12 connector.
In addition, NX-ILM400 IO-Link Master with screw-less clamp terminal block is connectable not only to EtherCAT, but also to EtherNet/IP communication coupler units, and you can choose between them according to the system configuration.