Solving Wireless I/O Challenges with Simple Reliability

Solving Wireless I/O Challenges with Simple Reliability: SMC’s EXW1

Robotic arms, automatic tool changers, rotary indexing tables, and other industrial automation equipment subject communication cables to repeated rolling, bending, torsional stress, and variable flexing. This high-speed, dynamic movement accelerates cable wear and creates multiple failure points that can compromise machine performance over time. Similarly, in rotary applications, slip rings transmit electrical power and sensitive electronic signals from stationary bases to rotating tabletops. These applications require solutions that add cost and potential failure modes.....