▶ The easiest way to learn industrial automation: https://realpars.com/ ▶ You can read the full post here: http://www.realpars.com/blog/io-link-technology ⌚Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 02:02 - Application 02:56 - Optimization 04:15 - Engineering 05:11 - Commissioning 05:38 - Maintenance 06:25 - Wrap-Up Modern manufacturing companies understand the value of their data. They want to collect as much data from their machines and sensors as possible and analyze that data to optimize their processes and operations. Unfortunately, many sensors communicate with controllers using simple analog or digital signals, making it impossible to retrieve more data from them. IO-Link is a digital communication standard that can replace analog communication between a sensor and an IO block. Since IO-Link is a digital communication standard, more information can be exchanged on a single cable, making it possible for companies to collect more data from sensors using their existing infrastructure. IO-Link is basically a low-cost route to Industry 4.0 and data-driven decision-making for companies that want to collect more data without overhauling their existing infrastructure. In this video, we’ll look at an example of IO-Link being applied in an application to see the benefits of IO-Link. A Hydraulic Pressure Unit, also known as an HPU, is a machine that pressurizes fluid so that it can perform heavy lifting. A traditional HPU is equipped with several process sensors that monitor the flow, vibration, pressure, and level in the HPU and send their data back to a controller using analog signals in a range of 4 - 20 milliamps. By connecting these sensors to an ifm IO-Link Master, machine builders, and end users can unlock the data from the machine to optimize processes and ease engineering, commissioning, and maintenance of their machines. With IO-Link, process data is sent from the sensor to the controller using a digital signal in an engineering unit. Since IO-Link is a digital communication standard, more data can be sent over a single wire than ever before. Sensors can send multiple process values to the controller as well as diagnostic information. With ifm’s DataLine IO-Link Masters, this additional data can be sent from the IO-Link Master directly to the cloud via the dedicated IIoT port where it can be analyzed using IT tools and machine-learning algorithms to uncover real insights that optimize processes and operations. IO-Link also helps to streamline the engineering and commissioning of machines. Since IO-Link unlocks the intelligence of sensors, less work has to be done programming controllers. ifm provides IO-Link Startup Packages that contain everything you need to integrate an IO-Link sensor into your controls application including device descriptions and add-on instructions that can be imported into your projects. With Startup Packages, you can integrate IO-Link devices into your projects without writing a single line of code. Using moneo configure, ifm’s IO-Link configuration software, you can save machine configurations as a parameter set. Since a parameter set can include multiple masters and sensors, the full configuration for a standard machine can be stored. IO-Link makes more diagnostic data available from sensors to unlock the ability of maintenance departments to perform real predictive maintenance. IO-Link also makes maintenance easy through its Automated Device Replacement functionality. With ADR, the configuration for each device connected to an IO-Link Master is stored in the IO-Link Master. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk1Tmndcu1SsgtQ4MYnipvg For more insight check out the links below: Intro IO-Link page: https://bit.ly/intro-to-IO-Link Setup Videos: https://bit.ly/support-videos-IO-Link Expansion hubs: https://bit.ly/expansion-hubs-IO-Link Signal Converters: https://bit.ly/signal-converters-IO-Link ============================= If you want to learn more about IO-Link, then we suggest that you check out our course IO-Link Essentials: Accelerating Towards Industry 4.0: https://www.realpars.com/courses/io-link-essentials-industry-4-0 ============================= Did you miss out on the latest and greatest? Catch up now by watching our videos right here: https://www.realpars.com/blog-post/single-pair-ethernet-benefits https://www.realpars.com/blog-post/opc-ua-pharma https://realpars.com/opc-ua-basics/ ============================= TWEET THIS VIDEO: https://ctt.ac/4Cgfm ============================= Follow us on Facebook 👉 https://www.facebook.com/therealpars Follow us on Twitter 👉 https://twitter.com/realpars Follow us on LinkedIn 👉 https://www.linkedin.com/company/realpars Follow us on Instagram 👉 https://www.instagram.com/realparsdotcom #iolink #predictivemaintenance #realpars