AS-Interface Installation Guidelines

Tips for easy startup

For an easy AS-Interface startup, Pepperl+Fuchs has developed an installation recommendation for the AS-Interface in collaboration with the AS-International Association.

The brochure can now be downloaded in PDF format.

Pepperl+Fuchs, one of the founding members of the AS-International Association, is your competent partner for AS-Interface solutions. Our product range includes:

• AS-Interface master
• AS-Interface power supply units
• AS-Interface I/O modules
• AS-Interface sensors
• AS-Interface Safety at Work

AS-Interface makes it easier to connect sensors and actuators, avoids the use of cable trees and subdistributors, allows flexible extensions, and reduces installation times and expenses for system documentation.

Advantages of AS-Interface:

• Free topology
• Works with all field buses
• Easy installation using cable piercing technology
• Interference-immune data transmission on unshielded flat cable
• Reverse-polarity protected flat cable
• Distributed solutions
• Transmission of safe input and output signals
• Easy to extend, flexible adaptation
• Automatic addressing when devices are exchanged
• Monitoring of sensor failure, cable breaks and short-circuits
• Diagnostic functions via display on master and local display via LED on the modules
• Statistical evaluation of transmission errors