New Balluff solution reduces Total Cost of Ownership - Condition Monitoring with DSC Sensors

With Dynamic Sensor Control the value of a machine design can be significantly increased, users profits from greater up-time, simpler start-up and more efficient maintenance. Made possible through DSC-compatible sensors, a special Balluff version of already proven standard binary sensors can output not only the switching and error signal, but also warning and trend messages. The increasing contamination of a photoelectric sensor, wandering of a target in the direction of the inductive sensor and much more, which indicates a status change in the machines, can be reported in real-time to the controller. The icing on the cake: A simple 3-conductor standard cable is all that is needed to connect and send the switching signals, error messages and warning, because the dynamic information is modulated over the standard binary signal. Multi-conductor cables are never needed. In addition, the sensors are even much less expensive than so-called “intelligent sensors” with similar functionality.

All that is required is a connection to a DSC sensor hub. This collects and condenses the information from up to eight DSC ports to one IO-Link port on the Master, which passes the signals on to the controller over the field bus.

DSC sensors with their warning and trend messages offer users not only greater added value compared with standard binary sensors, they are also a cost-effective way to fill the gap that used to exist between Desina sensors with their error message and the configurable and diagnostics-capable IO-Link sensors