Remote I/O

Banner’s Remote I/O products optimize control system performance and simplify system design for machine builders and controls engineers. Typically, I/O blocks reduce wiring and feature onboard diagnostics LEDs, and they reduce the costs of installation, integration, and maintenance. Banner I/O Blocks do all of this, but they also provide additional benefits. These include greater flexibility for control system design, improved control system performance, multi-protocol support, compact designs that reduce I/O clutter and save space within your machine or cabinet, and options for customization.

Banner I/O Blocks streamline PLC or HMI programming through intelligent features that enrich basic discrete signals. This enables the blocks to monitor a wide range of metrics from discrete signals, such as count, durations of input pulses, events per minute, and counts per minute, at speeds up to 5000 Hz. This capability also provides configuration options for port mirroring—to route an input state to any outputs on the same block, for example—and delay modes for each port, including on/off delays, one-shots, pulse stretchers, and more. Specific I/O Blocks also include DXM functionality to improve performance by shifting system control logic away from PLCs. These also allow you to write programs in ScriptBasic or use Banner software to simplify adding action rules, math functions, and other commands.