Power ranging 1.6 through 60 kW

Servo drives

Rockwell Automation | Inka Krischke, 06.11.2015, 14:00

Power ranging 1.6 through 60 kW

In the Allen-Bradley Kinetix 5700 Rockwell Automation enters the market with a new servo drive. This comes with dual servo axes, a 1.6 to 60 kW power range and ready technology for tuning.

12 Allen-Bradley Kinetix 5700 from Rockwell Automation

Instead of implementing multiple servo drives, with this platform machine builders can cut the space needed in a control cabinet by as much as 70 %, plus more than 60 % less wiring effort, to simplify configuration and commissioning. For realtime control the drive uses load observer technology (monitoring of changing mass inertia relations). That does away with the need to manually tune each single axis. As soon as a machine is ready to operate, a tracking notch filter detects and eliminates resonant frequencies. Tuning automatically optimizes machine performance. The drive combines powerful asynchronous motor control with servomotor control - intended to reduce machine complexity and save time and cost to integrate. Plus, in the Rockwell Studio 5000 Logix Designer software the user has a development environment to configure the servo drive.

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