ACS Motion Control, an international manufacturer of advanced multi-axis motion and machine controllers, has developed an advanced motion controller designed to address the needs of high performance machinery with demanding multi-axis motion of up to 32 axes and soon up to 64 axes.
The SPiiPlus EtherCAT Master Controllers are built on the high performance line of SPiiPlus controllers, adding networking, scalability, and flexibility, addressing the needs of the state-of-the-art industrial equipment at a better cost. The SPiiPlus EtherCAT Master enables users to link together up to 32 axes of drives and many I/O modules made by ACS Motion Control, as well as third party EtherCAT modules that have been qualified by ACS and comply with the CANOpen Over EtherCAT (CoE) protocol. All axes on the EtherCAT network are fully synchronized to a 20kHz sampling and servo update rate with a time jitter of less than 0.1 microseconds.
ACS offers a family of EtherCAT master controllers. By choosing the proper master controller and slave drive, I/O, or drive interface modules, the user can create a tailored motion control solution from standard modules to minimise design time and cost. A full software development suite with tools for motion programming, eight channel scope with data logging, system setup configuration, and graphical servo analysis accompanies all products.
