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Stepper and Servo Drives, Motors, Controls
News Release from: Omron Electronics | Subject: W-series servo drive
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 13 March 2002
Servo drive runs up to 15kW
Omron Electronics has extended its innovative W-series servo drive offering to include models with ratings up to 15kW.
Omron Electronics has extended its innovative W-series servo drive offering to include models with ratings up to 15kW, in anticipation of increased market demand, fuelled by the growing desire for ultra-precision and highly dynamic high-load axes Previously available up to 3kW, the W-series now encompasses 240V AC input single-phase units in powers from 30W to 1.5kW, and 415V AC input three-phase units in powers from 450W to 15kW
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 28 Apr 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Servos are being adopted in an ever wider range of applications", says Omron's Robert Brooks.
"The demand from machine builders, in particular, for increased machine speed, and improved accuracy with less waste, has driven the need for servo drives and motion controllers to be increasingly adopted in new design and refurbishment areas".
Since the initial launch of the low-power units, the W-series has received praise from users for its performance and ease of use, in particular the speed of response and rapid settling times.
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This, coupled with the diverse range of position and motion controllers, helps provide flexible and reliable control in a range of dynamic motion and position control applications.
The drives accept either pulse or analogue voltage inputs, and can operate in speed, position or torque mode, giving ultimate flexibility.
The servo drives are complemented by a comprehensive range of servomotors designed with very low rotor inertia to provide highly dynamic servo systems.
Another key feature is an online autotuning system whereby the servo drive adapts to changes in load inertia, simplifying initial system setup.
This feature will be a particular boon in applications involving frequent product changeovers.
Ongoing development of its servo products has seen Omron improve the speed of response and settling time for the W-series to a third of the time taken in previous models.
With CPU operation time also halved, these latest servo products offer class-leading performance.
Typical applications for the smaller W-series drives include point-to-point tasks on index tables, palletisers and mechanical handling systems.
The new larger sizes open up a wide range of potential high-load applications to this simple and effective technology, in which the improved dynamic response of the drives enables a greater number of moves to be accomplished in a given time, without sacrificing accuracy.
Control inputs for such applications can be provided direct from the PLC.
When used in conjunction with motion controllers, such as Omron's PLC-mounting MC402 module, W-series drives meet the needs of more demanding applications, such as flow wrappers, labelling machines and form/fill/seal tasks. Request a free brochure from Omron Electronics ...
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