Date: 8th July 2011
Advantech's new motion master module APAX-5202P
for manufacturing equipments
Advantech has added motion master module APAX-5202P to
its APAX PAC series for expanding its line to motion control
applications.
The APAX-5202P PCI interface card supports two independent
AMONet RS-485 master rings with an easily-connected RJ-45
phone jack and a readable LED diagnostic display and supports
a maximum of 128 AMONet RS-485 slave modules, meaning that
each ring can control up to 2,048 I/O points, 256 axes,
or a combination of I/O points and axis for motion control
says Advantech.
APAX-5202P directly transfers data between the host and
its slaves, using a daisy-chain network configuration; each
ring supports a transfer rate of up to 20 Mbps over a maximum
distance of 100 meters. The communication between master
and slave is based on a customized RS-485 solution that
saves wires, covers a long distance, supports high-speed
communication and has time-deterministic features. The communication
interface between master and PAC is accomplished by memory
mapping.
Advantech says APAX-5202P is compatible with the powerful
APAX-5570 and APAX-5571 PAC controllers to provide an AMONet
motion control solution in various motion control applications,
such as LED, solar and LCD manufacturing process. Users
can choose Advantech's AMONet slave modules, AMAX-2240 series
and AMAX-2750SY series. The former is a four axis AMONet
motion slave module for Panasonic, Mitsubishi, and Yaskawa
servo motors, the latter is 32-ch isolated digital input/output
slave modules. Advantech's AMONet AMAX slave modules provide
various functions and standard industrial DIN-rail mounting
design makes it easy to distribute them in the field. The
APAX-5202P master collects information from slave modules
and publishes the information to its PAC controller.
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