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Turck Banner is your global partner for factory, process and logistics automation in many industries. With our connected digital automation solutions, we are one of the pioneers of Industry 4.0 and IIoT. As a specialist in decentralized automation technology and smart sensors, Turck Banner brings intelligence to machines and ensures reliable detection, transmission and processing of production data from the sensor to the cloud, not only with robust I/O solutions in IP67, but also with user-friendly software and services.

Our automation solutions increase the availability and efficiency of machines and plants in a wide range of industries and applications, from the food, pharmaceutical or chemical industry to the automotive industry and mobile machines to intralogistics and packaging. The knowledge of industry-specific applications, gained through intensive exchange with customers, combined with the development and production of electronics at the highest level, provides optimal solutions for our customers' automation tasks.

More than 5,000 employees worldwide develop, produce and sell products and solutions in the areas of sensors, fieldbus, control, cloud, connection and interface technologies as well as HMI and RFID. Our global production and sales network includes more than 30 subsidiaries as well as agencies in another 60 countries. Modern production facilities in Germany, Switzerland, Poland, the USA, Mexico and China allow us to be flexible and respond quickly to local market requirements at any time.

Discover our latest Industry 4.0 concepts below...

Sensor to Cloud

Digitalization is penetrating more and more industrial sectors. Technologies such as IO-Link, RFID and Ethernet are multiplying the amount of data coming from the machine environment, and cloud services are enabling mobile access worldwide. But how do you extract the information from the IOT that is truly relevant to you? Without overloading networks or revealing protected content?

There are different ways and architectures for data retrieval. The first step is to generate this data. For that, Turck Banner proposes one of the broadest offer of IO/Link sensors of the market.

Our remote I/Os are able to pre-process this data simply and efficiently, our unique "ARGEE" technology allows this. Our intelligent and programmable I/O modules with CODESYS are designed to be integrated into open and secure architectures. Our entire offering is equipped with multi-protocol technology allowing parallel data access.

For example, a PLC can communicate with our modules in PROFINET while the latter is communicating in Modbus TCP with another device.

Finally, our field devices are true IOT gateways and are perfectly designed to interface with the cloud solution of your choice. We offer both cloud solutions very easy to implement and especially dedicated to machine manufacturers and also solutions oriented for end users.

Condition Monitoring

The term "Condition Monitoring" refers to the process of monitoring a condition parameter in machines and systems. Nowadays, "listening" to motors, electronic devices or areas of a system to check for faults goes far beyond on-site inspections by workers

Whether it's on ventilation systems, pumps, motors of various sizes installed in production plants and warehouses, often in remote locations. This makes machine maintenance time-consuming and error-prone, especially if maintenance personnel are instructed to perform on-site inspections only infrequently.

Our predictive maintenance and monitoring solutions allow our customers to intervene on a machine when they have planned it and not when the breakdown occurs in the middle of production.

TURCK BANNER solutions can be integrated as original equipment on newly designed machines or retrofitted on existing plants. Thanks to state-of-the-art sensor technology, intelligent field devices and wireless transmission, condition monitoring can be carried out not only continuously, but also from anywhere. Based on the data collected, systems can indicate impending failure at an early stage. Reliable condition monitoring is therefore essential for predictive maintenance.

Decentralized Automation

Efficiently automated machines and plants reduce costs, preserve product quality and ensure high availability for production. Break down rigid hierarchies and transfer responsibility to local components. Decentralized automation also reduces commissioning and time-to-market while simplifying the expansion or relocation of production resources. Modularize your plants and machines - this will give you new degrees of freedom in production.

Turck Banner is a recognized specialist in IP67 decentralization. Sensors, I/O blocks, HMI, PLCs, power supplies, switches, connectors, lighting and signalling...

The whole of our offer makes it possible to conceive a modular machine and without electric box thus reducing the times of design, wiring and starting up.

Production must be more and more agile.

This strategy of decentralization of equipment and architecture also allows machines to evolve much more quickly to adapt to production needs.

Where to start? RFID identification, machine security and condition monitoring are all independent components that can be easily decentralized.

We can work with you to study these specific subjects or help you design your machines according to a complete, flexible and agile architecture. 

Track & Trace (RFID)

End-to-end tracking of incoming and outgoing goods, automatically confirming that the intended materials and tools are used in production, or providing access points with increased security. For these industrial tasks, RFID has proven itself as a powerful automatic identification technology for Industry 4.0, with contactless transmission of large amounts of information, even over long distances, and easy connection to higher-level systems, from PLC to ERP.

HF (13.56 MHz) technology is an important driver of digital production processes and is based on magnetic near-field communication. However, users should opt for UHF technology (865...928 MHz) if longer ranges or mass readings of 200 or more data carriers are required. The modular RFID system "BL ident" from Turck Banner allows parallel operation of the read/write heads in the HF and UHF range - and thanks to the IP67 protection rating, this can also be done directly on site at the machine or plant. This enables decentralized and consistent signal processing in the field.

Communication in logistics and production plants is nowadays divided into hierarchical levels. RFID readers with an Ethernet interface establish a direct exchange of information with higher-level systems, such as PLCs, SCADA, MES and ERP or the cloud. Thus, goods movements are visible in real time, detected goods are matched with the database or automatic invoices are already created in the accounting software.

The platform-independent OPC UA communication standard simplifies the integration of RFID solutions into PLC, MES, ERP or cloud computing systems. With the complementary AutoID specification, it is also possible to exchange devices between Auto-Ident systems from different manufacturers. Turck has played an important role in the development of the standard and has its own RFID interface to the OPC UA server in its portfolio. For secure communication, the interface offers mixed operation of HF and UHF read/write heads. Especially for UHF projects, the know-how of system integrators pays off for companies.

These specialists not only master the parameterization of the read/write heads, e.g. to exclude interference with other devices, but also take care of the installation of intermediate software. For the systems involved, it is actually the middleware that makes the information usable on a data carrier - filtering and transmitting or visualizing it as required.

Since 2018, Turck also offers complete turnkey RFID solutions through its subsidiary: Turck Vilant Systems. The RFID specialist has already completed more than 1,000 RFID system installations in 35 countries and increases the efficiency of all tracking and tracing processes along the supply chain with reading systems, in-house developed middleware and on-site service.

Visual Factory

The factory of tomorrow is more and more communicating with exchanges between machines or towards the ERP, but what about the communication with the operator or the maintenance agent on the field.

We offer programmable RGB lighting and signage solutions that are easy to implement to visually communicate information in the field. This approach fits perfectly into Industry 4.0 and reflects the demands of our customers. A simple machine status becomes more complete, for example, with the indication of the heating time or the starting cycle with a rotating animation on a luminous column.

The operator can be guided by the light to facilitate his operations of installation or assembly for example a specific place or take and put down parts, a specific timing of work. A specific area of the machine illuminated in white can be suddenly switched to red in case of a stop on a specific area facilitating the intervention of maintenance personnel.

The visualization of the manufacturing process can be displayed in different ways with very clear visual indications. Tool change, material change with specific color codes.

A tank level can be displayed with a led light bar in the form of a bar graph. The possibilities are only limited by your imagination. In order to adapt to the architecture of our customers, we offer different types of communication to control our lighting and indicators: IO LINK, MODBUS, SIO, PRO PULSE. TURCK BANNER solutions allow to give a voice to the machine.