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PACMotion

Productivity, Flexibility, Engineering Productivity

PACMotion maximizes the potential of your machine so that you can sell more. When you have high performance needs that include high-speed motion applications, PACMotion provides the performance, flexibility, and productivity to make the most for your customers. PACMotion is a revolutionary new motion controller for the PACSystems RX3i, breaking the mold of what a motion controller can do. It controls up to 40 axes in a single rack over a high-speed backplane, with a hybrid distributed control architecture to ensure you get the speed and accuracy to maximize your machine.

Productivity:

  • PACMotion updates at consistent speed regardless of the number of axis
  • Motion path planning at a blazing 1 millisecond
  • Position loop update occurs every 500 microseconds
  • Axes are updated simultaneously to eliminate phase delays
  • Distributed control architecture keeps the processing load off of the main processor so to ensure consistent performance at high speeds and high axis counts
  • Fiber Optic I/O for noise immunity increases reliability

Flexibility:

  • Flexible configuration with master axis, I/O, architecture
  • Centralized or distributed control
  • On the fly changes make it easy to do short production runs
  • Amplifiers can be centrally located or located up to 400m from rack
  • A flexible master position source easily configures any axis to be a master or a slave to any other

Engineering Productivity for Quicker Time to Market

  • Integrating the motion and logic onto one system reduces complexity
  • A common programming language, tag database, and function blocks allows faster program development and time to market and machine commissioning
  • More than 50 built-in motion functions
  • Designed to comply with PLC Open standards

For product information contact your AutomaTech Business Development Manager today.