Robotic automation tasks are no longer necessarily associated with excessive installation costs and effort, maintenance, and parts replacement. With non-contact transmission of signals and power using inductive couplers, you can leave wear and cable breaks in the past. Use of these quick-disconnect units also makes you highly flexible.

By also using IO-Link you can significantly simplify your network topology. You reduce the installation costs and effort to a minimum while enjoying noise immunity. With this communication standard you can integrate all the sensors into the fieldbus level. And with IO-Link devices, continuous diagnostics and parameterization are possible using the controller. IO-Link reduces the number of devices and offers transparency down to the last meter. For a lean network structure simply connect your IO-Link devices to an IO-Link network block to bundle the signals. You also profit from huge time and money savings. The Balluff IO-Link portfolio with masters, hubs and intelligent sensors offers an incomparably wide selection for such efficiency.

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