SPS IPC Drives 2016New products in Nuremberg
What new products did the exhibitors present at SPS IPC Drives 2016? Computer&AUTOMATION provides an overview of what was on show in the Nuremberg exhibition halls this year.
The FIO Safety I/O 4DI/2DO safety Ethercat terminal from Kuhnke is a digital input/output terminal with four safe input channels and two safe output channels. No special controller is required to function as a safe slave, as the solution is based on FSoE in addition to Codesys - meaning that the safe Ethercat I/O module can be used on any FSoE master. The solution is rounded off by the decentralized SIL3 safety controller FIO Safety PLC in accordance with IEC 61508. The configuration and programming are created with Codesys and transferred via Ethercat/ FSoE. Codesys provides safety modules such as emergency stop, two-hand operation and muting according to PLCopen. Users can also develop customized function blocks for their applications. According to the provider, this means that all FSoE slaves such as drives or I/Os can be safely controlled and continuously monitored.