Also safety now equipped with IO-Link

However, the company also has great solutions for applications that do require interlocking. The latest additions are the CTM and CEM-C60 safety switches.

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The compact CTM switch has perfectly adapted to the high requirements in the food industry: it has an attractive smooth design, is made of plastics permitted in the food industry and is available in an IP69 version. In addition, the operating and locking pin of the switch is flexibly arranged so that it can still be easily applied even at radii as small as 15 cm. In turn, the CEM-C60 is a modular switch with magnetic locking. A standard Euchner switch - CES-C04 or CES-C07 - is mounted on the magnet.

Performance

For their primary task - safely detecting or locking doors, gates and flaps - the Euchner sensors are equipped with a PL e / Cat. 4. In addition, to prevent monitored parts from falling open, both switches have a holding force even in the non-locking state. More specifically, the CTM has a locking holding force of 1,000 N; in the open state of the latch, it is 20 to 30 N. In the case of the CEM-C60, these forces are 650 N and 30 N, respectively. The latter force results from the application of a permanent magnet.

IO-Link

To get the most out of the sensors and obtain all kinds of additional information, the switches can also be supplied with an IO-Link connection. In this way, Euchner meets the requirements of Industrie 4.0. After all, IO-Link now seems to be widely accepted in mechanical engineering as an underlying sensor network. The advantage is that it can communicate with many superordinate networks, so that the information from the IO-Link network can also be used in MES/ERP applications, for example.