Single platform pac
July 1st 2008 Mitsubishi Electric's iQ PAC
(programmable automation
controller) can integrate all
production processes, including
robots in a single, interdisciplinary,
automation platform.
The iQ Automation Platform is
based on a powerful multiprocessor
architecture including
PLC, motion control, CNC and
robot controllers. In multiprocessor
mode the control and
communications tasks are shared
by the PLC CPU and up to three
additional central processor units,
which can be integrated flexibly.
Like other controllers, the robot
CPU is plugged into the backplane
of the iQ as an intelligent module.
The controllers communicate with
one another via the common
backplane bus, giving
synchronised data and signal
exchange with the processing
cycles of the CPUs, with an 0.88
milliseconds cycle time.
Fast exchange of data and
information between the controllers
enables optimum connections and
synchronisation between the
machine and the robot in the
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