In a significant advancement for the industrial automation sector, Siboni and CoreTigo are proud to announce their continued cooperation, utilizing CoreTigo’s IO-Link Wireless technology, within Siboni’s servo motors.
By integrating CoreTigo’s IO-Link Wireless technology, Siboni created the PL4 series, of wireless, planetary gearbox, electronic drive brushless motors. These low-voltage, compact solution motors, are highly energy efficient while offering superior control precision, making them perfect for accurate industrial applications.
IO-Link Wireless Inside
The integration of CoreTigo’s TigoAir 2 embedded system-on-module into Siboni’s servo motors is a leap forward in intelligent motion control solutions. This enables the mission-critical information required by industrial professionals to maintain optimized production lines. Siboni’s IO-Link Wireless enhanced motors are suitable for various application fields, such as packaging machines, rotary tables, industrial robotics, logistics, mobile applications (including AGVs and LGVs), and smart transport tracks.
These enhanced motors feature numerous advantages:
• Real-time Wireless Control:
Cable-free control of the servo motor which increases flexibility and reduces the complexity of deployment and maintenance. With a 5msec latency, it offers the performance of a wired industrial-grade connection, without the wires.
• Advanced Sensing Capabilities:
As rapidly and continuously rotating motors are subject to various effects, it’s crucial to keep track of their performance, monitoring numerous variables, while machining. Using IO-Link Wireless allows this in an integrated and seamless manner, without having to put the production line to halt for analysis. This includes the ability to sense, transmit, and analyze information from a variety of sensors, including temperature, vibrations, and humidity, for optimization and predictive maintenance.
• Wireless Connectivity to Any Automation System:
Harnessing IO-Link Wireless for Siboni’s PL4 servomotor series eliminates the need for complex wiring. Additionally, it allows seamless integration with various industrial communication protocols, such as PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT, and OPC UA.
• Efficient Data Management:
Pre-processing algorithms are implemented within the motor, limiting data payload and transmitting only essential data to the PLC. This prevents the PLC from traffic overload while allowing the full range of data to flow from the IO-Link Wireless Master to cloud and enterprise applications aggregating all the information.
• Comprehensive Analytics:
Standard statistical algorithms such as RMS, Variance, Kurtosis, and FFT can be implemented easily, enabling advanced analytics and intelligent insights.
Watch the IO-Link Wireless Servomotor in this video.
How Does it Work
The PL4 series was created by integrating an IO-Link Wireless system-on-module directly into the servomotor, at the field level, enabling it to communicate directly with the IO-Link Wireless Master. At the control level, the IO-Link Wireless Master communicates both with the PLC (with various Industrial Ethernet protocol options) as well as with enterprise applications, via the TigoEngine software application.
In this manner, full control & visibility are enabled from the top of the organization, all the way to the factory floor level.
Other benefits of the IO-Link integration include:
• Seamless and complexity-free installation
• Increased flexibility and installation options
• Reducing maintenance, as a result of fewer cables
• Simple future add-on of multiple IOs
Demonstrated Live
Siboni and CoreTigo recently showcased these capabilities at the SPS Italia 2024 expo, showcasing how their collaboration addresses the growing demand for flexible, efficient, and reliable automation solutions. While CoreTigo and other partners demonstrated numerous advanced applications enabled by IO-Link Wireless, Siboni highlighted the practical applications of servomotors in complex industrial environments, emphasizing their role in driving Industry 4.0 initiatives.
These capabilities will be demonstrated live again by Siboni, at SPS 2024 (Germany), at Hall 1, Booth 249, as part of CoreTigo’s IO-Link Wireless Ecosystem. Visitors are welcome to visit Siboni and the IO-Link Wireless partners – 12-14 November, Nuremberg Messe, Nuremberg, Germany.
For more information visit Siboni or CoreTigo online.
About IO-Link Wireless
IO-Link Wireless is a deterministic, low latency (5 msec) and low synchronization rates (10’s of micro seconds), highly-reliable and scalable universal wireless communication protocol. Based on the IO-Link IEC 61131-9 standard, it is designed specifically for factory automation, coexisting with other networks – both wired and wireless.
About Siboni
SIBONI has been offering flexible, modular and integrated mechatronic solutions for motion control in a single product for over 60 years, through DC motors, planetary gearboxes up to brushless motors with on-board and nearby electronics. The integration of CoreTigo technology within SIBONI products has allowed them to be taken to a higher level, making them more connected and improving their control and diagnostics.
SIBONI’s mission is to create customized solutions for motion control, to satisfy the wide-ranging needs of machine builders and system integrators, both in the field of industrial automation but also in all those applications, such as electric traction, where it is required low voltage power supply through batteries.
SIBONI’s know-how not only allows you to design completely dedicated products, but also to follow the entire life cycle of the product, thanks to the production site in Forlì (Italy) and a proximity supply chain that guarantees quality components and an industrial process flexible, respecting the high quality standards of its products.
About CoreTigo
CoreTigo enables faster and more flexible manufacturing by providing high-performance machine digitalization, wireless connectivity and edge solutions for machine builders, system integrators and industrial equipment manufacturers. CoreTigo’s products enable the design and retrofit of machines and production lines that were not possible before. These solutions increase flexibility, adaptivity and modularity, resulting in cost effectiveness, increased productivity and downtime reduction. Embraced by industrial leaders, CoreTigo’s solutions are based on the IO-Link Wireless global standard, which is fit for harsh factory environments and motion control applications, providing the most reliable wireless connectivity for millions of sensors, actuators and industrial devices worldwide.
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