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Harmonic
Drive LLC Exhibits Soft Servo Systems' SMP Controller for
Semiconductor Equipment at SEMICON West 2008 |
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 Harmonic
Drive LLC, a world leader in the design, development,
and manufacturing of ultra-high precision motion control
systems, will be demonstrating semiconductor equipment
using their servo drives and actuators, a MECHATROLINK
II servo network, and Soft Servo Systems' SMP controller.
 Harmonic
Drive® motion control products are used extensively
in wafer and flat panel transfer robots as well as other
critical positioning applications, such as ion implantation,
crystal pulling and wafer dicing.
The
SMP
series is a line of general motion controller with
up to 32 axes (soon to be 64) of high-end general motion
control, an industry standard soft PLC and a Windows-based
GUI application in a single package.
 Like
all of Soft Servo Systems' products, the SMP is truly
PC-based, making it more affordable than traditional
motion controllers requiring motion control boards and/or
PLC boards. A single PC performs all servo control,
including feedback loops and NC path generation, as
well as providing the user interface, data processing,
plant monitoring, network communications, file management,
and CAD/CAM. This host PC can run on Windows 2000/ XP/
XPe, with a real-time extension to the operating system.
The
SMP is ideal for the semiconductor equipment industry
because SMP solutions offer great flexibility: developers
can easily embed their motion programming within their
customized application, using C/C++ or Visual Basic.
The SMP Motion Development Kit includes motion and logic
APIs with API source code and plenty of sample source
code for quickly creating customized GUIs and motion
control applications.
Exhibition
Information:
 SEMICON
West 2008
Exhibitor: Harmonic Drive LLC
Location: Moscone
Center,
San
Francisco, California, USA
Booth: South Hall 100
Dates: Tuesday, July 15 to
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Click
here for more information on this exhibit.
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ServoWorks
S-140M with Yaskawa's Sigma V Servo Drives to be Exhibited
at
EASTPO 2008 in Shanghai, China |
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 The
MECHATROLINK Members Association will demonstrate ServoWorks
S-140M, a 5-axis controller for machine tools, at EASTPO
2008. The demonstration will include MECHATROLINK II
servo communications with Yaskawa's new Sigma V servo
drives and motors.
ServoWorks
S-140M is a high-end, PC-based CNC product that controls up to eight
axes, including five CNC axes, PLC axes and a spindle. The main
features of the S-140M include 1000 blocks/sec block processing
time, flexible and extensive custom macros, and dynamic look-ahead
contour control for high-speed, high-precision milling (making it
ideal for mold-making applications). ServoWorks S-140M has an intuitive
Windows-based GUI interface that has been extensively tested and
overwhelmingly approved by end users. This CNC is ideal for five-axis
mills and machining centers, laser, plasma and waterjet cutting
machines; EDM machines; grinding and shearing machines, and more.
Features making ServoWorks S-140M ideal for shape-forming machines
include tool center point (TCP) control, corner deceleration control,
block search with calculation, normal direction control and bevel
cutting, and a retrace function.
Exhibition
Information:
EASTPO
2008
Exhibitor: MECHATROLINK Members Association (MMA)
Location: Shanghai
New International Expo Center (SNIEC),
2345 Longyang Road, Pudong, Shanghai
Booth: W1-A848
Dates: Wednesday, July 9 to
Saturday, July 12, 2008
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Soft
Servo Systems Will Offer MECHATROLINK™ III with Sigma V Drives:
Ethernet-Based
Servo Interface from YASKAWA |
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 In
late 2008, Soft Servo Systems will offer an interface
system for its PC-based CNC and general motion control
(GMC) products that integrates MECHATROLINK III servo
communications with YASKAWA's family of Sigma V servos.
MECHATROLINK™ III is a new 100 Mbps Ethernet-based
digital servo communications technology from YASKAWA
Electric Corporation that integrates up to 62 stations
in one network, using a single Ethernet interface cable
and a MECHATROLINK III PC card.
The new Sigma V servo motors and amplifiers from YASKAWA
represent a massive leap forward in technology from
their predecessors, and have many impressive features,
such as performance, speed, accuracy, vibrationless
motion, user-friendliness and fast setup times.
As one of the first third-party motion control providers
of a system combining MECHATROLINK III and Sigma V technologies,
Soft Servo Systems will offer YASKAWA Sigma V servo
drives and motors bundled with our ServoWorks CNC and
SMP general motion control products.
An optional and affordable fiber-optic VersioBus I/O
network is available to meet I/O needs.
Click
here for more information on the MECHATROLINK III servo
network with Yaskawa's Sigma V servo system.
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