
First Security Guideline available
The IO-Link community has published a new Security Deployment Guideline. This is intended to help users evaluate and implement security measures for the use of IO-Link technology.
Bihl+Wiedemann is a medium-sized, owner-managed company - founded in 1992 by Jochen Bihl and Bernhard Wiedemann in Mannheim. It develops and manufactures complete solutions for functional safety and data communication in machines and systems.
In a world of increasing automation, functional safety is essential. Plant operators not only have to comply with legal requirements, but also ensure efficiency and availability. For more than 70 years, EUCHNER has been supplying customized solutions for safeguarding guards - combining the highest safety standards with simple integration and future-proof communication technology.

At the end of May 2024, the China-based company Nanjing Loyst Industrial Networks was recognized as a new IO-Link test lab. This brings the number of IO-Link test labs worldwide to four.

At the end of May 2024, the China-based company Nanjing Loyst Industrial Networks was recognized as a new IO-Link test lab. This brings the number of IO-Link test labs worldwide to four.

Temperature measurement technology based on resistance thermometers or thermocouples is widely used in many applications. To integrate these into a digitized environment, ifm now offers an IO-Link temperature measurement module.

The 'CMMT' 3-axis magnetic field/temperature sensor with IO-Link is the third sensor type that Turck has developed specifically for easy-to-use condition monitoring applications - alongside the 'CMVT' vibration/temperature sensor and the 'CMTH' for humidity and temperature measurements.

ifm electronic at the Logimat 2024
With the 'O2I' multicode reader, ifm shows how IO-Link can be used in modern vision systems. Applications can be found primarily in logistics.

The first step in IIoT projects is usually the digital connection and subsequent configuration of the devices - for example with IO-Link devices and the 'moneo configure' software from ifm. This is now available free of charge.

How does data get from production to IT? Balluff presented a software-as-a-service solution called Asset Data Provider (ADP) in Nuremberg. Artur Nonnenmacher, Product Manager at Balluff, reveals the details.

Georg Schlegel at the SPS 2023
The 'Modular Bus System (MBS)' from Schlegel is used to easily integrate various operating elements into the control systems of machines or systems. The company has now added a basic and extension module to the system in order to control command devices with IO-Link.