CANOpen Drives Boost CNC Flexibility
by Design World Staff
Friday, November 14, 2008
Single- and dual-axis CANopen drives handle positioning requirements on machine tools. The intelligent drives are available in seven single-axis versions with output ratings from 8.9 to 100 A rms continuous (10 to 141 A peak), and three dual-axis versions with output ratings from 6.3 + 6.3 to 20 + 20 A rms continuous (10 to 35 A peak). These options give machine tool builders a choice to ensure that the control system hardware’s capabilities match the machine specification.
The drives are an extension of the NUMDrive C with its book-style form-factor. NUM’s CNC controller kernels, Flexium and Axium Power, are available with CANopen interfaces and are compatible with the new drives.
The drives implement a subset of the standard DSP 402 drive profile and suit auxiliary tasks to the coordinated multi-axis control of the machine’s tooling, such as feeding and unloading material.
NUM Corp.
www.num-usa.com
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