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News Release from: Micromech | Subject: AC brushless servo drive
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 14 October 2005
AC brushless servo drive has even more
features
AC brushless servo drive has been developed to incorporate the features and benefits of both steppers and servos and is designed to make machinery upgrading easier.
Just when it was thought that AC brushless servo drives could not get any better, the Omron XtraDrive family has arrived from the Yaskawa stable This exciting drive from Micromech has been developed to incorporate the features and benefits of both steppers and servos and much, much more
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 28 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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It needed first to make it easy for machine upgrading, next for the replacement of stepper motor axes, to convert mechanical gearing to programmable electronic gearing; and then to drive existing third party servo motors (with A quad B encoder feedback).
It has operator hand-wheel feed rate control or timing synchronising for advance and retard inputs, it can replace mechanical cam systems with electronic cam profiles and its dynamic performance is improved due to a patented new servo control algorithm ensuring low tracking error and zero overshoot.
It also has automatic tuning plus an oscillation cancellation algorithm therefore avoiding stress to sensitive machine elements.
The drives have Profibus DP making them compatible for existing networks and uses XtraWare a very low cost programming package which has clear with plain text command set for setting up parameters and evaluation of motion profiles.
The power range is from 100W to 800W for the 240V AC single-phase and 500W to 3.0kW at 400V AC three phase.
Ideal for new single axis or distributed multi-axis applications they can be machine mounted in small enclosures and there are standard cable kits for quick assembly and de-mount for maintenance.
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