Control Techniques has launched a new plug-in module for its AC and servo-drives that provides high-speed motion and registration control.
SM-Register is designed to provide a flexible, high performance solution for programmable motion that requires high-speed, high accuracy registration. It is ideal for applications such as printing, packaging and cutting machinery.
Control Techniques' SM Register option module is a fraction of the cost of conventional stand-alone motion and registration controllers, with the flexibility to encompass virtually any application from the simple to the most complex.
Not only does SM-Register simplify the system design and set-up, reducing areas of vulnerability since it is integrated into the drive itself, it also provides the best possible performance, eliminating delays between the registration device and the drive.
Wiring is significantly reduced through a single connection point for operator panels, position capture, feedback and advance / retard adjustment. Further cost savings are derived from the space saving (since the module fits inside the drive) with no external control devices or power supplies being required.
Designers and installers will appreciate the straightforward connectivity to a range of standard fieldbus and Ethernet protocols including EtherCAT, Profibus and CANopen as well as feedback from virtually any feedback device including resolvers, and incremental, Sin/Cos and SSI encoders.
"SM-Register is a further step towards simplifying machine design, programming and commissioning," says product manager, Imad Rajraji. "It is a significant addition to our wide range of option modules which give our drives unrivalled flexibility and performance, whilst helping to keep our customers' development costs down."
SM-Register provides motion programming using PLCopen or Control Techniques' own Advanced Position Controller (APC). It is programmable in logical user-defined units with two fully independent register capture channels. It has massive storage for 256 events per channel – microseconds apart – pattern recognition, the ability to filter unwanted marks such as splashes, dirt or text and can handle speeds in excess of 1000m/min.
Users will find the programmable filter function invaluable in eliminating reaction to random marks or patterns in a web, for instance. Minimum or maximum pulse width and distance from previous edge are both programmable in SM-Register.
There are a total of seven modes of position capture – positive edge, negative edge, both edges, positive pulse, negative pulse, and patterns of positive pulses and negative pulses.
SM-Register is compatible with Control Techniques' Unidrive SP AC drive range as well as the Digitax ST family of servo-drives.
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