New PROFINET motor control unit

maxon motor Australia Pty Ltd is pleased to announce the introduction of two new motor control variants for the Australia and New Zealand automation market.

The maxon MiniMACS6-AMP4 is an all-in-one device being freely programmable master system with integrated motion control and motor amplifier stages. The drive can power x4 BLDC motors and additional axes can be controlled via CANopen, EtherCAT and now with the addition of PROFINET.

In addition to the inclusion of PROFINET maxon also now offer x2 current level variants. 10A continuous current per motor and 4A continuous current per motor. The additional current level supports applications that require precise current and torque regulation using smaller motors and offering better scalability. Smaller BLDC motors can now be used for fine motion control requirements where current control resolution is critical. In particular laboratory automation requiring space optimisation and industrial networking. Ethernet, EtherCAT, PROFINET, CANopen and USB communication is available on both motion controllers. The new PROFINET interface features real time data transmission allowing complex high speed features such as cyclic data transmission featuring 1ms control time, flexible communication such as Acyclic data exchange for commissioning and diagnostics and Siemens plug and play implementation.

Come in and see for yourself:
maxon motor Australia have multiple motion control demonstration rigs and product examples to exhibit. We have trained automation engineers inhouse with disciplines in mechanics, mechatronics, electronics, computer science and physics. Please feel free to come and see the product and consult with our experts.

maxon motor Australia tel. +61 2 9457 7477.