Increasingly complex products, manufacturing flexibility and high demands on quality assurance require intelligent, configurable and programmable sensors. To fulfill these demands, IO-Link streamlines the varying interfaces required to connect to a control system and tooling. A 3-wire connection can communicate process data (as single bits, bytes and data blocks for input and output data). It also communicates acyclic data (for identification, configuration, parameterization and diagnostics) with up to 230.4 kBaud to both sensors and actuators. The functions and performance data are defined in device description files for master and devices; these are easy to customize via WAGO-I/O-CHECK. If a device must be replaced, the configuration and parameterization can be automatically restored without maintenance personnel. Project design, installation and operation are simplified! Four different IO-Link devices or standard digital sensors/actuators can simultaneously connect to the WAGO 750-657 IO-Link Master. At just 12 mm (0.47 inch) wide, the module has three connections for each of the four channels.
