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Process Tension Control
By the use of Phase Offset moves while Electronically gearing Master to Slave, the controllers allow for easy tension control between two sets of nip rollers. Tension can be regulated by
pre-test measurement or live analog, serial or digital feedback providing proper control of tension through varying speeds and up or downstream loads. |
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High Speed Traverse & Take-up Spool Winders
Use of Programmable Software Travel Limits, Electronic Gearing, and Special Firmware drive control, Winders can be set up to wind unlimited variations in spool width, wind angle and end-point dwell as well as step wind, stack wind and tapered wind.
With low inertia motors and high speed acceleration, very precise winding can be achieved in such applications as edge-wound voice coils, guitar strings, catheters and standard textile spool winding. |
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Programmable Cut To Length Saw Stop or Back Stop Gage
With the ability to program up to 1000 subroutines and 32K of extra data storage, the system can be programmed for hundreds of back stop positions and sequences.
No external PLC or PC would be required. A simple HMI can be utilized for interfacing
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Parallel Axis Gantry
In wide gantry applications, the base axis can be moved with two motors, one Master, one Slave. Additionally, the master axis can follow product flow under the gantry for operations such as flying shears, material cutoff, cross-cut saws, etc.
Proper fault handling will prevent racking of the gantry in the event that either the Master or Slave faults out during a move. Homing is done only once at power-up. The Master and Slave sync up maintaining perfect alignment.
See our CNC software on page 73-75 for full CNC
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Concepts and Capabilities of the Animatics Product Range:
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3-Position Parts Diverter
Simple servo upgrade from existing pneumatic systems, the
Animatics SmartMotor™ can be placed into any system to replace 2 or 3 position air cylinders to allow for multi point programmable positioning while maintaining simple I/O trigger control from any PLC.
The SmartMotor is placed into Position Mode and programmed to move to a given set point upon I/O input trigger from the PLC. |
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Input / Output Stacker
Utilizing Subroutines and variable counter, both Absolute and Relative Position Mode moves allow for start of stack and incremental stack shifts while maintaining parts counts. Having localized I/O within the Integrated Controls, the entire handling of parts can be dealt with by the stacker motor itself.
True Distributed control at a fraction of the cost and footprint. |
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Programmable Rotary Index Table
Typical Mechanical CAM based rotary Index Tables are fixed index and dwell devices. The Index distance cannot be changed and dwell is fixed as a function of assumed constant input RPM. By adding an Animatics Integrated SmartMotor™ to any servo rated Worm Gear box or flange output gear reducer, the system becomes a fully programmable rotary index table and can be programmed to any practical number of indexes and dwell times. Given the I/O and control capabilities, the dwells can be based on end-of-process contrary to fixed mechanical CAM thereby speeding up over all production cycle times. |
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Programmable Force Press-To-Fit
Animatics’ integrated approach to drives and controls allows for closely regulated positioning and position error control. This results in the ability for highly repeatable torque limited machine cycles. The result is a very good solution for pressing parts together or any other force limited application where both cycle time and proper force must be tightly regulated. |
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Drill & Tap/Nut Runner
Set rotating Motor as master and have the linear axis electronically gear off of it to provide high speed drill and taps and screw feed control with limited torque. Adding proper torque detection, the unit can detect when a drill or tap has worn or become dull. As a nut/screw runner, it can pick up on cross thread, broken or stripped thread, missing part or jammed part.
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High Speed Parts Counter and Verification
The External Encoder Input can be used to read Quadrature Incremental Encoders, Step and Direction Input or just as a counter where input pulses can be counted at a rate up to 2 Megahertz. As a result, the motor can both feed parts and verify part count even at high rates of speeds and short distance between parts.
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Multi-Axis Pick & Place
Up to 100 individually addressed motors can be placed on a communications bus allowing for easy coordination of multiple axis applications such as Pick & Place machines, Palletizers, Cross axis cutters, sorters, etc.
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Print and Die Cut alignment on-the-fly
When using Electronic Gearing, phase offset adjustment moves can be achieved to properly align die cut processes with printed registration marks. This same technique can be used to insure over mold and multi-layer print alignment and even pocketed blister pack parts placement.
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