Summary
Industrial equipment designers implementing condition-based monitoring (CBM) in legacy automation projects need to add additional functionality without significant reprogramming. Sensors with on-board decision-making and simple binary outputs for driving alarm or shut-down routines are essential. Rugged, multi-mode Smart Sensors from Contrinex trigger high-speed standard input/output (SIO) alarm signals, addressing existing routines on a central PLC without needing to disturb the legacy code.
Customer benefits
- Embeddable inductive Smart Sensors offer multiple sensing modes in a single device, allowing fit-for-fit replacement of existing devices
- Cumulative data for condition-based maintenance, including temperature and operating-cycle count, is recorded in on-board data storage
- The Smart Sensor’s dual-channel capability enables a high-speed binary SIO output to be triggered by an event-based exception
- Existing alarm or shut-down routines are addressed directly by the SIO signal, without the need to disturb the legacy PLC code
- Individual device configurations are stored locally, allowing plug-and-play replacement of sensors when needed
- Industry-standard IO-Link connectivity provides a single interface to the machine control system for process data
- Proven technology ensures highly reliable fit-and-forget operation with no manual intervention
Product specific advantages
- Robust, metal-cased inductive Smart Sensors are ideal for easy integration
- Multi-channel monitoring circuitry allows users to define multiple customized output thresholds
- Sophisticated sensing electronics deliver high-precision multi-mode measurements
- High-speed device-to-device communication enables decentralized data-processing and decision making
- Smart Sensors are individually shielded and EMC immune, eliminating interference when multiple devices operate in close proximity
- Dedicated service-data blocks hold device-specific data including product ID, location and serial number
- Visible LED indicators enable sensors to self-identify on demand, simplifying commissioning and trouble-shooting routines
- Industry-standard -25°C to +70°C operating range