The SERCOS interface allows drive and control manufacturers to create intelligent digital drives with vastly improved capabilities and flexibility. A single drive can be designed to handle multiple motors, such as permanent magnet servomotors, high horsepower induction servomotors (vector drives) and linear motors, with the configuration set-up parametrically.
Types of products used on SERCOS include:
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AC and DC servo positioning drives
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Spindle and main drives
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Stepper indexer/drives
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Vector drives
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Linear motor drives
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Inverters/variable frequency drives
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Multi-axis motion controllers
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I/O modules
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PLC interfaces
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Numerical controls
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Electrohydraulic valves and positioning systems
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The SERCOS interface provides the flexibility of configuring multi-vendor control systems with plug and play interoperability. Designers are not limited to products from one manufacturer, but are free to choose the best-in-breed to solve their individual motion and I/O control problems.
The SERCOS interface reduces system cost, eliminates many types of noise problems and helps machine designers get motion control systems up and running quickly.
Even more importantly, the SERCOS interface has facilitated great advances in machine productivity. End users have realized incredible timesaving advantages with SERCOS on their machines -- faster delivery, faster installation, faster setup, faster product changeover, and faster production speeds.
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