In industrial and mobile automation, position sensors have to meet many requirements. Not only must they be designed with robustness, speed and precision in mind, but they must also be able to communicate – particularly in the context of Industry 4.0. IO-Link is fully exploiting the sensors’ “intelligence” in complete automation systems. This is giving rise to considerable added value without increasing cost. A good example are the mag-netic linear position transducers from Novotechnik, which are fitted on the new textile machinery from Mageba International to detect the position of the dancers.

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