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Stepper and Servo Drives, Motors, Controls
News Release from: Motion Control Products | Subject: Maestro motion montroller
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 16 November 2004
Motion controller spreads its power
The Maestro is a novel motion montroller that is capable of driving 126 axes, with interpolation on 16.
The Maestro motion montroller is capable of driving 126 axes, with interpolation on 16 The Maestro is a novel product, in that the controller is based on a distributed philosophy rather than the restrictive and expensive centralised control that has been used in the past
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 15 Oct 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Maestro is not only a multi-axis controller (manager) but also an Ethernet gateway, enabling remote managing and maintenance, so the machine it controls is only a browser away.
The Maestro's distributed motion control philosophy uses the processing power of the intelligent drives that are on each axis rather than relying on the controller to do all the processing.
This not only reduces the price of the motion controller, but also reduces the amount of wiring, configuration and also uses a standard bus that enables machine designers to connect other CANopen devises to the bus, including I/O and sensors.
Furthermore the Maestro has a list price of just under GBP 1500.
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