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Why IO-Link Is Like an Industrial Version of USB

Unless you’ve been hiding in a cave for the past few years, you’re probably running into a lot more sensors and I/O components offering IO-Link to communicate with the PLC. With all this IO-Link buzz in the air, Colin Cartwright will explore all the exciting possibilities that IO-Link brings to automation and industrial connectivity with you, over the next few months.

 

 

 

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Murrelektronik Canada: How to Choose a Sensor Cable

When Colin Cartwright started as a controls engineer more than 30 years ago, choosing a sensor cable was relatively easy because there weren’t very many options to choose from. It was 1990 and if a sensor had a connector (many were still widely available with screw terminals at that time), it was either a 7/8 Mini connector or a M12 connector.