Waldkirch, November 2008 – SICK will present, for the first time, the S3000 safety laser scanner in differing PROFINET variants at the SPS/IPC/DRIVES 2008 trade fair in Nuremberg. Apart from the safety-relevant functions, e.g. protective field switching or parameterisation of separate signal outputs for two protective fields working in parallel, the S3000 PROFINET IO opens up comprehensive diagnostic functions via its bus connection. The communication capability of the safe laser scanner is not, however, limited to PROFINET – the electro-sensitive protective equipment is also ready for the world of Ethernet TCP/IP.

S3000 PROFINET IO safety laser scanners meet demands for increasingly greater communication between the controller and devices on the field level. This development has been driven in part by the maximum flexibility of machines and plant that can be supported by appropriate communication-enabled sensors – leading to greater produc-tivity, e.g. reduced equipping times. Moreover, bidirectional and real-time communica-tion structures allow further increases in plant availability, for example, by signalling potential component failures in advance or by making processes more efficient by means of preventive maintenance.

Ready for a variety of applications

As the safety laser scanners of the S3000 series are used in numerous mobile and sta-tionary applications as well as in a variety of configurations, all important scanner vari-ants will offer direct PROFINET integration. Depending on the task, scanners with ranges of 4 m, 5.5 m or 7 m are available with a choice of four or eight switchable pro-tective fields and, if necessary, an encoder interface.