Smart automation

Murrelektronik supplies modern components equipped with innovative functions and high-performance interfaces to enhance production modularisation and flexibility. Practical examples the include predictive maintenance products and solutions.

Products reaching the end of their life cycle can be replaced just-in-time, avoiding downtime. Devices aren’t exchanged too early which makes the most of the device's service life: the device's life cycle has been used to the limit.

One research project involves the development of intelligent cables using smart core technology. They indicate when a cable has completed 80 percent of its typical number of bending cycles. Then it is time replace it during a regularly scheduled service interval. Several parameters are monitored at the same time in ower supplies: interior temperature, load situation during operation, number of start processes and component service life. Here too, warnings are issued at the right time so the part can be replaced duly during the next routine maintenance, with no unplanned stoppages.

A particularly smart feature is the IODD on board integrated in the MVK Metal and Impact fieldbuses to quickly set-up of IO-Link devices. The data required for the sensors and actuators is directly embedded in the GSDML file. Slaves can be easily connected and operated – plug & play at its finest!