ASi-3 for collecting individual binary signals, ASi-5 for complex operations where high transmission speeds and data bandwidths as well as efficient device addressing are important – both technology generations form a “dream team” which is just made for material flow plants. With a new 24 V brake chopper, a new housing family which is perfect for installation in cable ducts, and the expansion of the product range to include additional drive manufactures, Bihl+Wiedemann now offers even more efficient automation solutions with AS-Interface.

Not only customers of SPAX, the world’s leading manufacturer of screws and connection technology, rely on durability, safety, quality and user friendliness. The company itself also sees these as factors which are just as elemental as future security – especially when it comes to the machines used to produce their products. Not least for these reasons the internal mechanical engineering department at SPAX, which maintains and renews the production machines - especially presses and rollers - decided for ASi and ASi-5 solutions and Bihl+Wiedemann as partner.

As simple as it is to connect devices in AS-Interface networks using the profile cable and piercing technology, so challenging could be the configuration for complex automation solutions such as zero pressure accumulation or muting. With Bihl+Wiedemann you don't notice any of this, since the user interfaces of the software products – and thereby the overall user experience – is being constantly improved. The same applies to the company’s devices such as the ASi-5 Module BWU4386 with eight IO-Link Master Ports.