Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This video will show you how to setup and control a Festo SMS IO-Link actuator over IO-Link to a Balluff Ethernet/IP remote IO IO-Link Master and then to a Rockwell CompactLogix PLC. The PLC program shows and uses the SMS Advanced AOI from Festo that has been specifically modified to work with the Balluff remote IO master.

For the files associated with this video, please download from this public GitHub link: github.com/Festo-North-America/MTX-Videos/blob/c06601340aaf536590df24184cf5b0c331f6840f/053_Commission%20and%20Control%20Festo%20SMS%20IO-Link%20Actuator%20with%20a%20Rockwell%20PLC%20via%20a%20Balluff%20BNI00E1%20Remote%20IO%20Block%20and%20custom%20Balluff%20AOI/99_CurrentFullZip/Balluff_BNI00E1_SMS_AOI%20with%20AB%20PLC%20Library_V1.0.zip

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0:00 – Introduction
0:28 – Hardware Overview
1:58 – Balluff Remote IO Network Block Parameterization via IoT Port Webserver
9:26 – Sample PLC Program Overview and Configuration
14:08 – SMS SubRoutine Overview and Configuration
17:35 – SMS Advanced Tag Setup
20:12 – PLC Run Mode – Test SMS AOI and Explain All AOI Tag Functions
28:56 – Outro