In many industrial applications, drives are monitored for rotational speed or standstill. In the automotive, food, steel and mining industries, speed sensors are used to safely detect standstill, overspeed and underspeed of drives or belt break on conveyors. On mobile machines such as fork-lift trucks, speed sensors serve as speed pick-ups.
ifm’s compact speed sensors integrate rotational speed detection and monitoring in one unit. This allows for low-cost and easy monitoring of rotating speed. The sensor head operates using inductive or magnetic sensing principles and it detects a target on a rotating machine part. The integrated evaluation converts this information into rotational speed. The limit of the speed at which the output switches is set via IO-Link.