What Makes Murrelektronik the Ideal Partner?
Published on : Wednesday 05-04-2023
As a one-stop provider of machine installation components, Murrelektronik offers more than 75,000 different cordsets for signals, data, and power – the largest variety on the market.
Murrelektronik is an expert in the implementation of installation concepts that are ideally tailored to your applications. We pursue a holistic approach to automation. We analyse your system/machine structure – paying close attention to both the number and location of the input and output points at which sensors, actuators, and smart devices are integrated. Using a variety of conceptual approaches, we will work with you to develop an installation concept that is tailored to your needs.
IO-Link makes installations easy
IO-Link makes the integration of smart devices into installation concepts easy. Our new dream team of IO-Link masters, hubs, and analog converters now goes one step further. They make accessing and evaluating data particularly easy by creating transparency from the device level to the cloud. At the same time, the team is hard to beat in terms of flexibility, usability, and performance.
Our system is universal. It is ideal for those just entering into digitalisation and, at the same time, is a future-proof IIoT concept. It is always just what you need, when you need it.
Creating connections, preferably decentralised and without control cabinets, has always been our passion. For this reason, we provide everything you need for both new machines and retrofits to network the controller with the device level using IO-Link and, if desired, to digitalise it via a direct connection to the cloud.
Universal system
From masters, hubs, converters and devices to connection technology, everything works together and is optimised for the respective application:
1. Pre-configured devices ensure the quickest and easiest start possible, without importing an IODD or using a configuration tool.
2. The autoconfigure mode automatically detects whether an input or output has been connected so the process data can be read or written immediately.
3. The IODD on board functionality (PROFINET) greatly simplifies the controller configuration. Configurations are displayed in plain text in the control program making time-consuming reading of manuals is a thing of the past.
Switch to IO-Link for shorter commissioning times, lower costs, higher productivity and simplified service/maintenance options.
Matchmaker – We get along with anyone and everyone
Standardised processes help when managing the increasing complexity in the manufacturing world and when having to react quickly to changing customer needs. They also do something else… They are the basis for digital transformation. Rethinking development, planning, installation, and manufacturing processes on digital platforms would be inconceivable without standardisation.
Our new Pro-Master modules are the ultimate tool when it comes to standardising machine concepts. They are the "matchmakers" that connect everything to everything, everywhere, and in every language.
One Module for Everything
a. Eight multifunctional ports allow you to connect all signal types while supplying connected devices with up to 4A per port.
b. Three fieldbus protocols and worldwide approvals ensure that the system can be set up the same way - no matter where it ends up being installed.
c. The integrated SMI (Standardised Master Interface) allows data to be accessed via IIoT protocols such as OPC UA, JSON REST API and MQTT. For standardised configuration – independent of the fieldbus and the system!
The direct path to the cloud
Modern automation concepts and technology are unthinkable without digitalisation. More efficient and agile processes, greater machine availability, new business models and permanent data access (for identification, diagnosis and configuration) requires transparent communication from the lowest device level up to the latest generation of mobile and cloud-based applications. Count on Murrelektronik to make end-to-end signal communication in interconnected workflows as easy as possible.
MVK Pro and Impact67 Pro are real workhorses when it comes to the machine and plant digitalisation and the management of more and more data in less and less time.
Perfect for IIoT
The master modules have integrated sensors that continuously provide channel status data. This feature is extremely valuable for both condition monitoring and predictive maintenance applications.
i. The SMI (Standardised Master Interface) provides numerous data access options. Configurations can be set via the web server, tools, OPC UA server, JSON REST API and MQTT. Data visualisation straight out-of-the-box is possible via the web server and JSON REST API
ii. Future proof your system! Create a variety of digitisation concepts while achieving economic success with IO-Link and our Pro-Master modules.
Extension modules for connecting digital sensors and actuators
With IO-Link hubs, you can easily connect multiple digital sensors and actuators to a single IO-Link master port using a standard sensor cordset.
In combination with Murrelektronik’s IO-Link masters, MVK Pro and IMPACT67 Pro, the IO-Link hubs help to minimise downtimes in machines and systems. Individual channel diagnostics are automatically transmitted to the control system. No configuration required. If an error occurs, only the affected channel of the hub is switched off. The new, multifunctional DIO models with up to 16 channels give you maximum flexibility.
IO-Link devices
From power supplies to signal lights and analog converters, we offer numerous devices with a built-in IO-Link interface.
Connection technology
As a one-stop provider of machine installation components, we offer more than 75,000 different cordsets for signals, data, and power – the largest variety on the market. IO-Link connections use one of three different connector types: Signals, Data and Power.
We believe that automation technology will be completely cabinetless in the future. Therefore, we are always focused on decentralised automation. We have been a member of the IO-Link consortium since 2008 and are both forward thinkers and co-designers of the platform. In other words – we are the experts when it comes to getting the best out of the IO-Link standard and translating it into our customer’s language.
