Contract packaging cells, rental lines, seasonal extensions: a certain kind of section exists for a defined period and then does not. This build is its drive — local I/O, nothing to configure, and a Q4/2 plug that makes the arrival and the departure equally short.

What a temporary section actually needs from its drive is the absence of project work. There is no fieldbus, so no device name, no address list, no GSD file to hand over at the end; there is no cable gland, so the next move does not require a termination; and the integrated 24 V PSU means the local panel needs no supply of its own. The installer mounts the drive, plugs the power, lands the M12 signal leads, and the section runs.

When does temporary become permanent?

When the product that section supports stays in the portfolio — and the upgrade path was designed in advance. The same 1.5 kW hardware exists as the 5AF0 build with PROFINET and EtherNet/IP and the 5AA0 build with AS-Interface, both sharing the identical FSA housing, the same 4.1 A LO rating and the same Q4/2 power entry. A permanent future costs an order number and a plug swap, not a re-engineering.