Mitsubishi controller system integrates robots
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Mitsubishi Electric Automation Systems product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Aug 15, 2008
Mitsubishi Electric has launched the iQ Automation Platform, designed to integrate all production processes, including robots, into a single interdisciplinary platform.
The integrated control concept of the iQ Automation Platform is based on a multi-processor architecture that includes PLC, motion control, CNC and robot controllers.
In multi-processor mode the control and communications tasks are shared by the PLC CPU and up to three additional central processor units, which can be combined very flexibly.
Just like the other controllers, the robot CPU is plugged into the backplane of the iQ Automation Platform as an intelligent module.
The controllers communicate with one another via the common backplane bus, which synchronises data and signal exchange with the processing cycles of the CPUs, with a cycle time of just 0.88 milliseconds.
Integrating the robot controller in a platform that controls both the machine and the robot delivers a number of application and cost benefits.
The fast exchange of data and information between the controllers enables optimum connections and synchronisation between the machines and the robot in the production line.
The standardised hardware and software technology and the modular architecture of the iQ Automation Platform also make it possible to configure systems more flexibly and to expand the system to handle additional controller tasks as and when necessary.
The new system brings particularly high savings in engineering, since communication between the controllers via the common backplane bus is already integrated in the system.
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