RS (Fort Worth, TX) announced Omron Automation’s NX Series safety controllers and accessories for contemporary industrial environments with more than 10 safety devices, long or complex programming sequences and demanding safety network requirements.
Features:
- Engineered to help users overcome common safety and operating challenges in industrial environments ranging from electronics, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, automotive and heavy equipment manufacturing facilities to material handling and logistics environments
- Scalability and Compatibility: Standardized connections and protocols, modular expandability capabilities, flexible hybrid network architecture that supports both integrated and standalone safety architectures and up to 2,032 I/O safety points
- Advanced Safety Functionality: Fault detection, high-speed processing capabilities and CAN functions compatible with both centralized and decentralized systems
- Easy Programming and Configuration: User-friendly interface and automatic programming and configuration capabilities and optional SD card
- Diagnostic and Monitoring Capabilities: Error code system and LED indicators and continuous data logging and system validation tools
- Space Savings: NX Safety Controllers have compact, uniform form factor
- Sysmac Studio Integration: NX controllers also support integration into Omron’s unified automation platform, Sysmac Studio
Omron offers two distinct models of the NX Series product line with specialized safety functionality, the NX-SL and NX-SL5, both of which are readily available at RS.
NX-SL models:
- Available with 32 or 128 safety I/O connections, up to 256 or 1,024 I/O points and 0.5 or 2MB program memory
- Modular design that makes them easy to adapt to variety of machine types and sizes and, for retrofit projects, support direct connections to any PLC with EtherNet/IP coupler
- Can be combined with EtherCAT coupler to facilitate seamless Functional Safety over EtherCAT (FSoE) for systems that require remote I/O
NX-SL5 models:
- Available with 127 or 254 safety I/O connections, up to 1,024 or 2,032 I/O points and 2 or 4MB program memory
- Can support multiple safety zones and network protocols
- Optimized for larger, more complex applications that demand high-speed safety control and broader coverage