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.

Learn more about our first ASi-5/ASi-3 Fieldbus Gateways with integrated ASi-5/ASi-3 Safety Monitor, our new product family I/O Modules as well as many other product highlights and innovations in 2022.

Versatility in a product range means flexibility in the application. And if even then the technology generations – we’re talking about ASi Safety at Work and ASi-5 Safety – complement each other perfectly, then we have the best requirements for offering customers highly tailored safety solutions for the greatest number of applications and plant sizes – also from a cost and effort perspective.

Certified and ready to use, ASi-5 Safety is more than ever the simplest and most cost-effective way to collect safe and non-safe signals in the field and make them available for automation solutions. The entry level is low in terms of integration and costs, operating and work processes have become even simpler despite of a more complex technology. And with respect to the bus capacity, ASi-5 Safety as the optimal complement to ASi Safety at Work, opens up completely new horizons for the future.

Setting up buffer and accumulation units for a stationary material flow system - and implementing it regardless of the drives used, without any complex PLC programming and scalable as desired from the simple straight conveyor line to systems with multiple infeed and outfeed points to stand-alone solutions with safety technology. This is possible with Zero Pressure Accumulation (ZPA) using AS-Interface and an intuitively operable software from Bihl+Wiedemann.

Learn more about our first modules for ASi-5 Safety, ASi-5 counter modules as well as many other product highlights and innovations in 2022.

Greater data bandwidth, faster transmission speeds, expanded diagnostic – all the possibilities offered by ASi-5 as a wiring technology on the lowest field level are what many wish for when integrating ASi Safety devices as well. In the interview Bernhard Wiedemann, Managing Director of Bihl+Wiedemann in Mannheim, Germany explains how ASi-5 Safety will supplement the established technology of ASi Safety at Work.

Simplicity – this is the promise of AS-Interface. An assurance upon which ASi professionals as well as users

of the wiring technology for whom ASi-5 and ASi-3 is new territory can rely. Because Bihl+Wiedemann offers a whole range of useful tools for simple planning, installation, addressing, commissioning and diagnostics of ASi applications: software suites whose programs make planning, configuration and commissioning of ASi networks easy, a new ASi-5/ASi-3 address programming device for the best in-place user experience as well as diagnostic tools that are also suitable for release measurements and the acceptance of systems..