Flexibility and economy
September 1st 2008 NUM has added a family of singleand
dual-axis CANopen drives to
its range. The new drives provide
economic solutions for positioning
requirements on machine tools,
extending the company's CNC
control range in a way that helps
customers to build machinery with
optimised and cost-effective units
of hardware.
The new intelligent CANopen
drives are available in seven
single-axis versions with output
ratings from 8.9 to 100 Arms
continuous (10 to 141 A peak),
and three dual-axis versions with
output ratings from 6.3 + 6.3 to 20
+ 20 Arms continuous (10 to 35 A
peak). These options provide
machine tool builders with a 'granular' choice to ensure that the
control system hardware's
capabilities match the machine
specification.
The drives are an extension of
NUM's long-established drive
range, NUMDrive C with its bookstyle
form-factor. They are said to
offer one of the highest power
densities on the CNC market,
together with a simple assembly
concept for building large multiaxis
systems.
Both NUM's CNC controller
kernels, Flexium and Axium Power,
are available with CANopen
interfaces and are compatible with
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