The Motornet DC is a compact brushless servomotor for flexible and modular mechatronic solutions.
Parker Electromechanical Automation has launched a new drive family, the Motornet DC.
Typical applications for the Motornet DC include packaging machines and rotary tables with numerous motors mounted on board.
This motor has been developed to resolve the difficulty many users have of limited space in cabinets, or a problem in existing equipment.
For OEM’s and machine builders Motornet DC provides the opportunity to design and build cost effective modular design solutions, ideal for today’s modern packaging and production machines.
Motornet DC is also the first servomotor with an integrated servo drive which has an EtherCAT interface, based on the CoE-Profile (CAN over EtherCAT).
The intelligent cabling concept combines both auxiliary and DC bus voltages, EtherCAT bus signals and an additional system diagnostics bus (which allows access to individual drives even when the EtherCAT bus is not in operation), in one single hybrid cable.
Multiple Motornet DC servo modules can be connected in a simple daisy chain architecture removing the need for costly distribution boxes.
Common coupling of all drives via a shared DC bus permits energy-efficient sizing, and those with brakes can also transfer their energy directly to the drives in motoring mode.
In some cases this makes the central braking resistor completely redundant while in others it can be reduced significantly in size.
A typical application example would be a carousel filling and capping machine, where as many as 30 servo drives could be required.
The Motornet DC can dramatically reduce the cabling cost in such applications. In addition, only one single hybrid cable has to be connected to a slip ring, whereas conventional multi-drive systems require multiple slip ring contacts.
Calculations have shown a reduction of the control cabinet volume of up to 70% can be achieved.
