The power rail booster supports connection of a PROFIBUS DP through a contact wire, such as can be implemented on monorail conveyors or high-bay storage and retrieval systems, thus ensuring continued use of the wide range of PROFIBUS DP system services, such as diagnostics and PROFIsafe safety engineering through a bus.

Monorail conveyors

Vehicle control for monorail conveyors can be achieved cost-effectively with a concept based on SIMATIC standard components. High availability, short response times and easy expansion can be achieved by using distributed controllers, such as SIMATIC ET 200S with IM 151-7/CPU. These can also be programmed by the user with SIMATIC STEP 7 via the contact wires.

High-bay storage and retrieval systems.

The maintenance-hungry data photoelectric barriers used in high-bay storage and retrieval systems can be replaced, thus increasing plant availability.

Applications with slip rings

The power rail booster enables cost-effective routing of PROFIBUS DP through rotating axes even in the case of large diameters.