Selection Requirements to Establish
Work through what you can. Anything still undecided is exactly what a conversation with our engineers is for.
01Control and I/O
- Existing control platform or PLC family, or whether the platform is open
- Digital and analogue I/O counts, with signal types and ranges
- Distributed or centralised I/O, and the distances involved
- Sensors and actuators already specified
- HMI, panel or supervisory visualisation required
02Networks and data
- Fieldbus and industrial Ethernet protocols in use
- IO-Link devices and master requirements
- Determinism and cycle time the application demands
- Where the data goes: SCADA, historian, MES, ERP or cloud
- OPC UA, MQTT or REST integration, and any edge processing needed
- Data logging, buffering and retention
03Safety and installation
- Safety functions required, and the performance level or SIL to be met
- Emergency stop, guarding, light curtains and interlocks
- Enclosure rating, ambient temperature and installation location
- Power supply, UPS and earthing arrangement
- Standards and documentation required for acceptance