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February 09, 2007
Distributed Drive Eliminates Components and Lowers Cost of Motion System
Distributed architecture of the ION Digital Drive from PMD simplifies design, eliminates components, and lowers cost for DC brush, brushless DC and microstepping control.
Lincoln, MA (PRWEB) February 8, 2007 -- The ION™ Digital Drive from Performance Motion Devices, Inc. (PMD) is a distributed-control module that combines network connectivity, positioning motion control, and power amplification in a rugged, easy-to-use package. This single-axis module is available for DC brush, brushless DC, and microstepping motors, and is ideal for medical, scientific, semiconductor, industrial, robotic, and general automation applications.
To construct a complete low-cost multi-axis controller, one network-connected ION Drive is used per axis. This highly integrated approach eliminates the wiring complexity and cost of dedicated motion control cards connecting to separate amplifiers. ION provides profile generation, servo compensation, stall detection, and field oriented control. It supports distributed control in an asynchronous serial network (RS485) version or a CANBus network version. Multiple ION modules (up to 127) can be connected on a single network. ION provides an output capability of up to 15 amps peak, and 500 W at 56 volts. Other features include hardware performance trace, on-the-fly profile changes, and PLC style inputs and outputs.
President and CEO, Chuck Lewin says "ION represents a much simpler and lower cost way of constructing a motion control system. If we take a basic 3-axis motion controller as an example, a traditional architecture requires one 3-axis motion control card connecting to 3 separate off-the-shelf amplifiers. This is four components altogether, and a lot of wires. Using ION, there are no motion cards, no connections between the motion card and the amplifiers, and just three components altogether (the IONs) required to construct the system."
ION can be programmed using Pro-Motion,® a Windows™-based exerciser which allows quick and easy drive set up or C-Motion® and VB-Motion™ software libraries which let users to develop their own applications in C/C++ or Visual Basic.
The ION Drive is CE marked and RoHS compliant.
For additional information, visit www.motion-control.pmdcorp.com.
Posted by Industrial-Manufacturing at February 9, 2007 09:05 PM