Software aids advanced motion control
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Nyquist Industrial Control product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Oct 27, 2004
A new release of NYCe3000 provides machine designers and motion control engineers with the latest means to design and develop machine control systems and motion control systems.
A new release of NYCe3000 provides machine designers and motion control engineers with the latest means to design and develop machine control systems and motion control systems.
Combining a complete set of motion control tools with a machine control environment, it is a powerful, ready to use package that builds on many years of experience in the OEM machine building market.
As part of its ongoing software development program, Nyquist Industrial Control has extended its software package for the NYCe3000 motion controller series and the FirePoint motion and input/output controllers.
As a result, NYCe3000 motion controllers for high-end co-ordinated motion and the FirePoint product family for input/output and non-co-ordinated motion control can now easily be integrated into a single system.
This means that both platforms are now programmable via one universal interface.
In addition to the usual quality improvements based on extensive field experience, the new software release 3.1 also includes a large number of functional improvements, as illustrated by the following few examples, which are not exhaustive.
Remote procedure calls (RPC) allow motion control applications to run on any PC in a network, connected to an embedded motion controller with integrated PC.
Using this feature, engineers at the technical HQ can run any (test) application controlling a machine at a totally different location.
This makes testing more effective because engineers can use their own PCs with their own tools and it saves travelling time.
Faster spline handling enables smaller spline (PVT) segments, which in turn means higher accuracy movement along multi-axis paths.
This enables machines to produce and handle products with smaller tolerances.
This gives engineers the ability to define paths and contours more precisely with an increase of accuracy of production and handling of products of up to 30%.
Improved CT3000 support for M'Ax and MultiAx drives gives additional encoder input, improved safety handling, absolute homing and homing persistency functions for these Control Techniques drives.
This has already led to substantial benefits in controlling packaging equipment.
The installation CD of this new software release also includes a number of sophisticated tools developed and used by Nyquist's own motion engineers.
These tools are valuable to users capable of interpreting detailed information derived from the system.
One example of these tools is NYCeFreq, a frequency analysis tool that can be used to optimise motion control behaviour.
The Nyquist NYCe3000 SR 3.1 Software Release 3.1 commenced shipping at the end of October 2004.
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