In the "industry 4.0" trend, the intelligent manufacturing to become the main theme of the times and the main direction of manufacturing. In the manufacturing industry, automation and intelligent drive technology will play an increasingly important role. This is an innovative challenge around the efficiency of sustainable productivity, which will provide an inexhaustible way for the upgrading of traditional industries and the long-term development of new industries. power.

   The basic concept of "Industrial 4.0" is the modular information physics system, which enables real-time communication with each other at the same time as the operator to automatically determine the production process.

In order to design the ideal new product, manufacturers in the choice of the relevant operation control equipment need to consider the following points:

Logical control has been unable to meet the demand

    A few years ago, the industry is still widely used programmable logic controller (PLC) to control the machine equipment. Normally, the PLC will be connected to a separate operating controller, and the controller through the field bus to adjust and match the servo drive. However, this approach is now clearly unable to meet the needs of the industry, and digital manufacturing needs to be able to perform multiple complex tasks in parallel mechanical controller.

    Thus, this demand facilitates the development of programmable automation controllers (PACs). The modern PAC platform is an enabling technology that customers can manufacture "Industrial 4.0" production equipment through the PAC platform.

Connectivity is the key

    In order to achieve greater flexibility and maximize the overall efficiency of the equipment, the production process needs to be adjusted automatically according to changes in demand. To this end, not only to install real-time dialogue between the intelligent devices, but also need to have a central hub as a controller platform, in order to achieve from the enterprise network to each actuator seamless two-way communication.

   In order to avoid potential bottlenecks, intelligent field devices that support Industrial Ethernet protocols should be used to communicate with the control system. Programmable control systems with integrated network publishing help to distribute data anytime, anywhere and facilitate remote maintenance when needed.

The impact of electrical control panel design

   As the automatic adjustment of the manufacturing process requires precise position control, so as people tend to choose small size and large-scale on-demand production, the use of servo drives is also growing. However, increasing the number of servo drives requires a larger electrical control cabinet, otherwise it may increase the installation problem.

   The current solution is to use a servo drive system that is equipped with a central power supply module to reduce the number of external components used. The modern multi-axis system has also evolved to be equipped with stacked biaxial and triaxial modules, greatly reducing the size of the control panel. In addition, since the single-core cable servo motor incorporates the position feedback signal into the motor power line, the cost of the cable is reduced by half compared to the previous one.