
NPN/PNP and NO/NC: An Engineering Guide to Avoid Inversion in PLC DI Integration
1. Introduction: Why Does “Inversion” Happen? Inversion Is Not a Sensor Failure—It’s a Misalignment of Conventions In industrial automation, determinations such as “object present/not present” and “in position/not in position” are typically implemented using discrete (switching) sensor outputs and connected…









