Italian and Israeli industrial automation firms Siboni and CoreTigo have launched a series of wireless electronic drive brushless motors, employing CoreTigo’s IO-Link Wireless technology, within Siboni’s servo motors.

By integrating CoreTigo’s IO-Link Wireless technology, Siboni created the PL4 series, of wireless, planetary gearbox, electronic drive brushless motors. These low-voltage, compact solution motors, are designed to be highly energy efficient while offering superior control precision, making them perfect for accurate industrial applications.

Italian firm Siboni designs and manufactures motors and gearboxes for industrial automation applications. Products include brushed and brushless DC motors, permanent magnet synchronous motors, and precision planetary gearboxes. Siboni’s products are used in a variety of industrial automation applications, including industrial machinery, textile machinery, packaging machines, forming machines, printing machines, and belt conveyors.

Israeli firm CoreTigo provides wireless and machine optimisation solutions for industrial automation. Its products are used by machine builders, automation equipment manufacturers, system integrators, and manufacturing facilities. CoreTigo’s solutions are based on the IO-Link Wireless global standard, which is designed for harsh factory environments and motion control applications.

The integration of CoreTigo’s TigoAir 2 embedded system-on-module into Siboni’s servo motors is an advance in intelligent motion control solutions. It provides key information required to maintain optimised production lines. Siboni’s IO-Link Wireless enhanced motors are suitable for various application fields, such as packaging machines, rotary tables, industrial robotics, logistics, mobile applications (including AGVs and LGVs), and smart transport tracks.

They provide real-time wireless control, increasing flexibility and reduces the complexity of deployment and maintenance. With a 5msec latency, they offer the performance of a wired industrial-grade connection, without the wires.

They also provide advanced sensing capabilities. As rapidly and continuously rotating motors are subject to various effects, it’s crucial to keep track of their performance, monitoring numerous variables, while machining. Using IO-Link Wireless allows performance tracking, monitoring multiple variables while machining, without having to put the production line to halt for analysis. This includes the ability to sense, transmit, and analyse information from a variety of sensors, including temperature, vibrations, and humidity, for optimisation and predictive maintenance.

The integration also provides wireless connectivity to any automation system. Harnessing IO-Link Wireless for Siboni’s PL4 servomotor series eliminates the need for complex wiring. Additionally, it allows integration with various industrial communication protocols, such as PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT, and OPC UA.

Pre-processing algorithms are implemented within the motor, limiting data payload and transmitting only essential data to the PLC. This prevents the PLC from traffic overload while allowing the full range of data to flow from the IO-Link Wireless Master to cloud and enterprise applications aggregating all the information.

Standard statistical algorithms such as RMS, Variance, Kurtosis, and FFT can be implemented, enabling advanced analytics.