Ideal conditions for high-availability systems

Condition monitoring – the forward-looking strategy for your new system

How does smart maintenance detect faults before it is too late? With pre-processed, specifically transmitted status data – without the need for complex infrastructure expansion. TURCK's condition monitoring solutions make this possible for greenfield projects: whether it's multiprotocol Ethernet, ARGEE and IO-Link, or cabinet guards and cloud services.

Availability is a key factor in the overall effectiveness of plants. If machines are at a standstill due to malfunctions, unplanned production breaks occur, resulting in losses. To prevent this, maintenance uses permanent access to sensor data in the times of Industry 4.0. The advantage is that anomalies caused by gradual errors or wear are detected more quickly. Either because an alarm directly reaches the responsible employee or because status data is already included in the predictive maintenance. Additional costs for avoidable maintenance work are now a thing of the past, as are confusing data volumes.

The sensor signal becomes a digital maintenance plan

Unusual engine vibrations? High temperature in the field device? Foam formation in the tank? Getting close to maximum operating hours of interchangeable tools?

As soon as status information is sent from the sensor to the IIoT in a targeted manner, status queries become digital added value. Find out more about Turck's versatile system solutions for new systems — whether you want to collect data directly on the machine (IP67) or in the control cabinet (IP20).

Put additional information to good use

In order to monitor critical values, a separate sensor is usually not required for condition monitoring tasks. Instead, IO-Link devices supply both process data and acyclic device data, i.e. parameters or diagnostics. A standard sensor can also provide important additional information using the appropriate fieldbus station. The ARGEE programming environment allows you to easily store conditions and actions—from simple to complex—in Turck's IP67 block I/O modules.

Direct path to IIoT

Turck's Ethernet-enabled I/O hardware supports three protocols: Profinet, EtherNet/IP and Modbus TCP. Because of this "multilingualism," I/O systems or block modules can transfer pre-processed status data to an edge controller via a dedicated protocol without impairing the communication of process data to the controller. Depending on the monitoring requirements, the information flow from there leads either to the process control system or to a cloud, for example via OPC UA or MQTT.

Control cabinet at a glance

Increased temperatures, high humidity or improperly closed doors are just a few of the many potential hazards for control cabinets and their sensitive components. Users can play it safe with compact control cabinet monitors that keep an tabs on important values via internal or external sensor. Turck's IM18-CCM even sends this data to the IT environment via Ethernet.