Product News: Rockwell Automation's GuardLink 2.0 with new EtherNet/IP interface - Smart Industry

GuardLink 2.0 is the world’s astir precocious serially connected information input solution designed to trim downtime and installation costs, per its shaper Rockwell Automation. GuardLink 2.0 offers precocious diagnostics by mode of the caller Allen-Bradley 432ES GuardLink EtherNet/IP On-Machine Interface or a operation of our Dual GuardLink Relay and EtherNet/IP Interface. GuardLink 2.0 protocol besides enables safety-rated power instrumentality presumption reporting and automatic diagnostic reporting to an HMI utilizing CIP Safety implicit EtherNet/IP, notes Rockwell.

The caller 432ES GuardLink EtherNet/IP interface promises to alteration users to link up to 96 information devices via 3 autarkic information channels. The interface tin cascade powerfulness to further interfaces and tin support way of timing and frequence of events to amended attraction and make process efficiencies. The 432ES supports linear, prima and device-level ringing topologies, portion gathering the highest information ratings up to SIL 3, Cat 4 PLe.