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News Release from: Lenze | Subject: Lenze Drive Server
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 21 June 2000
Drive Server links PC control to bus
systems
The new Lenze Drive Server allows multiple bus systems to share information across drive platforms.
The new Lenze Drive Server forms a key part in open automation systems It is an OPC based interface that greatly simplifies programming and saves engineering time
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 21 Feb 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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It allows multiple bus systems to share information across drive platforms.
Just as a print driver allows different PC programmes to operate a printer, the Lenze Drive Server links between PC based software and OPC bus systems.
Communication is two-way.
A variety of PC based software can be used, such as visualisation programs, data collecting, drive parameter setting and programming.
The Drive Server connects between these software systems and a bus system such as PROFIBUS, CANbus, INTERBUS.
The Drive Server defines automatically all the variables of the drive in a way that different application programs can address.
A common list of variables it set up in an OPC database.
It greatly simplifies communications to intelligent sub-systems, such as multi axis drives, by integrating them and handling their specific protocols automatically.
In operation the Drive Server is installed onto a Windows NT-based computer just like a print driver.
The next step it to tell it which field bus to use.
The Drive Server then recognises which drives are present and configures itself.
It builds up the database with all the drive information.
By a click of a mouse, parameter groups can now be arranged.
After the group receives a name the variables configuration is finished.
Different bus systems can now access this data base and communicate with each other.
For example an instruction received from a sub-system in DeviceNet can be understood by other sub-systems which communicate through PROFIBUS, CAN or other buses.
The Drive Server forms a key part of the Lenze automation offering which extends from inverter and servo drives through to touch screens and HMIs. Request a free brochure from Lenze ...
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