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Safety controller gains choice of fieldbus modules

A Pilz Automation Technology product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Jun 1, 2004

New communications modules enable the PNOZmulti modular safety controller to be linked as a slave device to a DeviceNet, Interbus, CANopen or CC-Link industrial fieldbus network.

Four new communications modules enable a PNOZmulti software-configurable, modular safety controller to be linked as a slave device to a DeviceNet, Interbus, CANopen or CC-Link industrial fieldbus network.

These are in addition to the PNOZ mc3p Profibus DP communications module that was announced recently.

Machine builders can therefore use a PNOZmulti to control and monitor safety functions and output data that can be transferred via any of these five fieldbuses to a PLC or other machine controller.

This data can be monitored, stored or used within a machine control system, for example, to display the status of the safety devices.

Capable of transferring data at a rate of 12Mbit/s (for the Profibus DP model), the modules are fast enough for virtually any machinery safety application.

To assist with commissioning and troubleshooting, the 22.5mm-wide modules are equipped with LEDs that display the status of the units themselves.

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