Motion Control Products For Demanding Applications

Inmoco's new Elmo Gold Line range of motion products is ideal for motion control applications in the semiconductor production, robotics, medical, avionics, laboratory automation and printing sectors. The range, targeted at engineers and machine designers, includes intelligent servo drives, a distributed multi-axis network controller and a network input/output (I/O) controller. These products are claimed to provide seamless connectivity (communications, feedback and I/Os) and straightforward operation to create high-performance solutions for modern motion control systems.

The Gold Line products enable engineers to develop synchronised multi-axis distributed motion solutions in one environment using the combination of Elmo's Elmo Application Studio (EAS), IEC61131-3 or C Programming and Common Application Templates. The EAS software provides a unified and intuitive user interface for all the tasks that are carried out during system development and operation. These include system configuration, drive setup and tuning, drive and multi-axis programming and the handling of the overall application files.

Complementing the functionality of EAS, Elmo's Common Application Templates are said to shorten the learning curve and speed up the time to market for the implementation of new applications. The Gold Line range supports the Ethercat networking standard, enabling fast, real-time, multi-axis control applications using a distributed control topology. It enables rapid, reliable and deterministic communication for up to 100 drives, with built-in distributed clock implementation (ripple of less than 1us) and optional communication redundancy.

The Gold Line also supports CAN networking (CANopen Version 3.0), with the added benefit of CANopen 2.0 compliance on the Gold Maestro multi-axis motion supervisor, providing compatibility with Elmo's Simpliq range of products. In addition, Ethernet, with a variety of standard protocols, is available to connect the Gold Maestro to a machine's host computer, programmable logic controller or human-machine interface.

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