Posted to News on 29th Jan 2024, 12:00
Phoenix Contact introduces safety-related PLCs for Profisafe
Phoenix Contact has extended its PLCnext portfolio with a powerful safety PLC for Profisafe devices in a Profinet network. The new AXC F XT SPLC 3000 safety controller can be operated as a left-side extension module on the AXC F 2152 and AXC F3152 devices.
(See Phoenix Contact at MachineBuilding.live, 2 October 2024, on stand 16)
The safety controller can be used in applications up to safety category SIL 3 in accordance with IEC 61508/61511 and PL e in accordance with EN ISO 13849-1.
In operation, the SPLC 3000 can communicate with up to 300 F-Devices as an F-Host and simultaneously act as an F-Device. The safety controller is fully integrated into the open PLCnext Technology ecosystem and provides a high degree of modularity in combination with the Profisafe I/O extensions of the Axiobus, which can be aligned on the right-hand side.
The high-performance and redundantly designed ARM-based safety-related CPUs have a clock rate of 800 MHz for channel 1 and 600 MHz for channel 2.
