Ease instrument commissioning and enhance maintenance
Plant personnel in the food & beverage industry are leveraging IO-Link-enabled digital instruments and sensors to create insights
Plant managers, operators and engineers can recall multiple instances attempting to troubleshoot issues with insufficient information available. To address this and related issues, many technological innovations are filling in the informational voids, aiding root cause analysis.
IO-Link is a lighter digital protocol, easier to configure and at lower cost to install and maintain than fieldbus and Ethernet-based communication packages, while still providing most, if not all, of the required diagnostic and process data points digitally to a central host system. With an estimated 27 million nodes in operation worldwide as of 2021 and a rapidly-growing base, especially in food & beverage facilities, IO-Link is supported by a wide and growing range of instruments.