In today’s industrial landscape, IO-Link enables seamless data exchange for efficient operations.

In a lean manufacturing process, a poka-yoke method is employed to eliminate product defects by preventing, correcting, or drawing attention to human errors in real time. Industrial engineer Shigeo Shingo first applied the term poka-yoke (“mistake-proofing” in Japanese) to the Toyota Production System. 

With the introduction of industrial networks, sensors offering positional data were soon offered with direct connections to these networks.