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Stepper and Servo Drives, Motors, Controls
News Release from: Bosch Rexroth - Electric Drives and Controls | Subject: Visualmotion 8
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 23 November 2001
Precision servo control meets flexible
integration
Visualmotion 8, the latest open control system from the Bosch Rexroth Group, enables metalforming, handling and packaging machines to be more flexible and productive.
Visualmotion 8, the latest open control system from the Bosch Rexroth Group, enables metalforming, handling and packaging machines to be more flexible and productive The graphically programmed control system combines precision servo control with flexible integration allowing straightforward installation with a minimum of effort
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 22 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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New Visualmotion 8 has open system architecture allowing machines to be exported world wide due to its support of all major bus systems.
These include Sercos for real time servo control, DeviceNet, ControlNet, ProfiBus, InterBus and ArcNet for I/0 and Ethernet for data communications to FMS and Scada packages.
With Bosch Rexroth's large range of servo drive systems and Visualmotion 8, modular machine control can be built from standardised software modules using cut and paste techniques.
Selecting from the installed library of kinematic arrangements allows complex axes configurations to be easily implemented.
Visualmotion 8 enables a more economic machine design with straightforward commissioning, plain language diagnostics and effortless installation procedure giving the kind of productivity improvements that machine builders and users are looking for.
(This was Engineeringtalk's Top Story on 22 November 2001).
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