SIRIUS 3UG48 monitoring relays for stand-alone installation for IO-Link

SIRIUS 3UG48 monitoring relays

The SIRIUS 3UG4 monitoring relays for electrical and mechanical variables monitor all important characteristics that allow conclusions to be drawn about the functionality of a plant. Both sudden disturbances and gradual changes, which may indicate the need for maintenance, are detected.

Thanks to their relay outputs, the monitoring relays permit direct disconnection of the affected system components and alerting, e.g. by the triggering of a warning light. Thanks to adjustable delay times the 3UG4 monitoring relays can respond very flexibly to brief faults such as voltage dips or load changes and can thus avoid unnecessary alarms and disconnections and increase system availability.

3UG48 monitoring relays for IO-Link

The SIRIUS 3UG48 monitoring relays for IO-Link also offer many other options based upon the monitoring functions of the tried-and-tested SIRIUS 3UG4 monitoring relays:

• Measured value transmission to a controller, including resolution and unit, may be parameterizable as to which value is cyclically transmitted
• Transmission of alarm flags to a controller
• Full diagnostics capability by inquiry as to the cause of the fault in the diagnostics data record
• Remote parameterization is also possible, in addition to or instead of local parameterization
• Rapid parameterization of the same devices by duplication of the parameterization in the controller
• Parameter transmission via upload to a controller by IO-Link call or via parameter server (if IO-Link master with IO-Link specification V1.1 or higher is used)
• Consistent central data storage in the event of parameter change locally or via a controller
• Automatic reparameterizing when devices are exchanged
• Blocking of local parameterization via IO-Link possible
• Faults are saved in parameterizable and non-volatile fashion to prevent an automatic startup after voltage failure and to make sure diagnostics data are not lost
• Integration into the automation level provides the option of parameterizing the monitoring relays at any time via a display unit, or displaying the measured values in a control room or locally at the machine/control cabinet.

Even without communication via IO-Link the devices continue to function fully autonomously:

• Parameterization can take place locally at the device, independently of a controller.
• In the event of failure or before the controller becomes available the monitoring relays work as long as the control supply voltage (24 V DC) is present.
• If the monitoring relays are operated without the controller, the 3UG48 monitoring relays have, thanks to the integrated SIO mode, an additional semiconductor output, which switches when the adjustable warning threshold is exceeded.

Thanks to the combination of autonomous monitoring relay function and integrated IO-Link communication, redundant sensors and/or analog signal converters – which previously took over the transmission of measured values to a controller, leading to considerable extra cost and wiring overhead – are no longer needed.

Because the output relays are still present, the monitoring relays increase the functional reliability of the system, since only the controller can fulfill the control tasks if the current measured values are available, whereas the output relays can also be used for the disconnection of the system if limit values that cannot be reached during operation are exceeded.

The individual 3UG48 monitoring relays for IO-Link offer the following functions in different combinations:

• Phase sequence
• Phase failure, neutral conductor failure
• Phase asymmetry
• Undershooting and/or overshooting of limit values for voltage
• Undershooting and/or overshooting of limit values for current
• Undershooting and/or overshooting of power factor limit values
• Monitoring of the active current or the apparent current
• Monitoring of the residual current
• Undershooting and/or overshooting of limit values for speed

Note:

For more information on the IO-Link bus system, see "Industrial Communication".

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Use of conventional monitoring relays

Monitoring relays for IO-Link

Notes:

Devices required for communication via IO-Link:

• Any controller that supports IO-Link (e.g. ET 200SP with CPU or S7-1200)
• IO-Link master (e.g. CM 4xIO‑Link for SIMATIC ET 200SP or SM 1278 for S7-1200)

Each monitoring relay requires an IO‑Link channel.

For more information on the IO-Link bus system, see "Industrial Communication".

Article number scheme

Note:

The article number scheme shows an overview of product versions for better understanding of the logic behind the article numbers. For your orders, please use the article numbers quoted in the selection and ordering data.

• Simple cyclical transmission of the current measured values, relay switching states and events to a controller
• Remote parameterization
• Automatic reparameterizing when devices are exchanged
• Simple duplication of identical or similar parameterizations
• Reduction of control current wiring
• Elimination of testing costs and wiring errors
• Reduction of configuration work
• Integration in TIA means clear diagnostics if a fault occurs
• Cost saving and space saving in control cabinet due to the elimination of AI and IO modules as well as analog signal converters and duplicated sensors

The use of SIRIUS monitoring relays for IO-Link is particularly recommended for machines and plant in which these relays, in addition to their monitoring function, are to be connected to the automation level for the rapid, simple and fault-free provision of the current measured values and/or for remote parametrization.

The monitoring relays can either relieve the controller of monitoring tasks or, as a second monitoring entity in parallel to and independent of the controller, increase the reliability in the process or in the system. In addition, the elimination of AI and IO modules allows the width of the controller to be reduced despite significantly expanded functionality.