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Stepper and Servo Drives, Motors, Controls
News Release from: Inmoco | Subject: Elmo Maestro
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 02 December 2004
Maestro conducts up to 126 motion axes
The Elmo Maestro is a network-based multi-axis motion supervisor that can control up to 126 axes of motion.
The ability to control up to 126 axes of motion via a single unit is provided by the Elmo Maestro, a network-based, multi-axis motion supervisor (MAS) launched by Inmoco in the UK The Maestro operates in conjunction with Elmo intelligent servo drives to provide real time, synchronised and interpolated multi-axis motion control solutions that can monitored anywhere in the word via a web browser
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 2 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Maestro is the heart of a distributed network architecture that delivers cost savings through reduced systems hardware and wiring, and also lower development costs due to the combination of transparent CANopen communications and an integrated development environment that allows the flexible integration of all intelligent nodes - drives, I/O encoders, HMIs - using industry standard protocols.
With less hardware and wiring to maintain, plus comprehensive remote drive and motor diagnostics, the Maestro also delivers reduced maintenance costs for the machine user.
In addition, when maintenance is required, the short machine setup times provided by the combination of the Maestro and Elmo's SimplIQ servo drives ensure that production downtime is totally minimised.
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The package of the Maestro and SimplIQ servo drives provides the capability to manage up to 126 axes in standard applications, with up to16 of these axes interpolated, depending on bus load.
This performance is the result of sharing the motion processing workload in a distributed motion control architecture which enables real-time motion management tasks to be offloaded from a host; typically a PC.
In its central system management role, the Maestro fulfils a number of strategic roles.
First, it operates as an Ethernet CANopen gateway; interfacing with multiple hosts via Fast Ethernet (10/100Mbit/s), while co-ordinating motion between various axes in synchronised interpolated mode, and integrating event handling into motion control procedures.
Secondly, the Maestro operates as a CANopen Network Node Master for such tasks as network management, network configuration (NMT), clock synchronisation and heartbeat functions.
Thirdly, it provides the file administrator function for firmware such as intelligent drives, multi-axis user applications and systems resources.
Finally, the Maestro is a powerful multi-axis motion analysis and development tool offering OEMs a user friendly multi-axis development environment, complete with multi-axis recording and analysis tools. Request a free brochure from Inmoco ...
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