Thanks to the rise of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the number and type of sensors deployed on factory floors is growing and in search of a streamlined way to communicate and share data, ...

IO-Link is a powerful yet simple protocol with wide industry support. IO-Link improves digital or analog sensor interfaces, providing significantly more information, configurability, and control to ...

The use of IO-Link as a communication protocol in industrial plants has seen remarkable expansion over the past several years. The total number of installed IO-Link nodes reached 51.6 million by the ...

Renesas Electronics Corp. has expanded its industrial automation product lineup with two new IO-Link products: the CCE4511 four-channel IO-Link master IC and the ZSSC3286 IO-Link ready, dual-channel ...

Designers of industrial-automation applications have many viable choices for sensor-related signal conditioning and network connectivity, each with a variety of attributes. Among these is IO-Link, a ...

A new transceiver for the single-drop communication interface IO-Link promises to boost factory floor efficiency and productivity by enabling seamless, bidirectional communication between sensors, ...

The vendor-independent interoperability aspects of IO-Link make this non-fieldbus method of connecting plant floor devices and systems an appealing way to jump-start Internet of Things initiatives.

Sponsored by: Texas Instruments. As the concept of Industry 4.0 gains momentum, the easy-to-implement IO-Link serial interface will no doubt play a major role in creating the next-generation smart ...

Across manufacturing plants, automation systems have changed and demand higher visibility, faster data exchange, and simpler integration. Sensors and actuators are becoming more intelligent, but their ...