[{"term":"Libraries_BA","id":0,"type":"QUICKLINKS"},{"term":"Instructions","id":1,"type":"QUICKLINKS"},{"term":"WAGO-I/O-PRO","id":2,"type":"QUICKLINKS"},{"term":"Building","id":3,"type":"QUICKLINKS"},{"term":"221","id":4,"type":"QUICKLINKS"}]

{ "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Homepage", "item": "https://www.wago.com/sg" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Solutions", "item": "https://www.wago.com/sg/industries" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Manufacturing Industry", "item": "https://www.wago.com/sg/manufacturing-industry" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "1.1.solutions_factory_variable-perphery", "item": "https://www.wago.com/sg/manufacturing-industry/modulare-maschinen-profinet-io" } ] }

Topics 14 October 2019

Faster Modular Device Adaptation

The PROFINET IO Fieldbus Coupler from WAGO can save you a lot of time when engineering and configuring your devices. The function of variable peripheral configuration, an innovative version of option handling, makes it possible to use software created once to realize different versions of a device easier.

Customized products, shorter product cycles, greater product diversity – they all demand greater manufacturing flexibility at lower costs. Modular devices offer the solution because their individual function blocks can be exchanged, optimized and reused. In combination with PROFIsafe safety technology, the PROFINET IO Fieldbus Coupler from WAGO makes it quick, easy and safe. Variable peripheral configuration of the fieldbus node is an innovative version of option handling. It allows mechanical engineers and operators to create the maximum system configuration of a device once and then easily configure any variants by PLC application at any time – without an engineering system at all.

Simply Enabling Device Elements by PLC Application

Variable peripheral configuration helps companies better master the challenges of Industry 4.0. With conventional solutions for making devices more flexible, the engineering system requires extensive adaptation to changes. This mainly affects the hardware configuration, i.e., adaptation of the correct number of fieldbus nodes or matching I/O modules using a GSDML file.

With variable peripheral configuration, the customer or technician can immediately enable and directly commission planned device elements by adapting variable values from the PLC program. The PLC program automatically checks the validity of variable values, so that the changes are immediately applied correctly. In other words, arranging devices is high flexibility and order-related without reprogramming and adjusting the hardware configuration – an essential requirement for Industry 4.0.