irondesk40
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Hope someone can give me some advice on how this can be done. My boss wants to take a unidrive servo drive controlling a servo motor that will be controlling a spray gun running back and forth over the top of fabric. This project was originally go to just be a simple ac drive controlling a linear slide with a glue gun attached and a prox switch on both ends to tell the drive to change direction.
Now,due to a smooth talking sales rep that came in to quote some linear slides it has now developed into a servo motor controlling the movement of the glue gun back and forth across the top of the fabric. The part that i am totally confused about is that they want to be able to tell the servo how wide the fabric is, for example 60 inches wide and then start the servo and it go back and forth enough in each direction to only spray over the 60 inch wide fabric. If on a hmi screen you tell the servo that the fabric is now 40 inches wide it then only travel back and forth enough to stay over the top of the fabric.
At the moment, have no idea how a micrologix 1400 plc can communicate with the Emerson Unidrive servo controller. I could see entering a value in the hmi to represent how wide the fabric is and doing the math determine how many pulses etc. the servo would need to run.
Any advice on how this is accomplished would be greatly appreciated.
Also, forgot to mention the sales rep also kept talking about how a redlion display that he also reps can communicate with the servo drive.
Have a big learning curve.
Thanks
Now,due to a smooth talking sales rep that came in to quote some linear slides it has now developed into a servo motor controlling the movement of the glue gun back and forth across the top of the fabric. The part that i am totally confused about is that they want to be able to tell the servo how wide the fabric is, for example 60 inches wide and then start the servo and it go back and forth enough in each direction to only spray over the 60 inch wide fabric. If on a hmi screen you tell the servo that the fabric is now 40 inches wide it then only travel back and forth enough to stay over the top of the fabric.
At the moment, have no idea how a micrologix 1400 plc can communicate with the Emerson Unidrive servo controller. I could see entering a value in the hmi to represent how wide the fabric is and doing the math determine how many pulses etc. the servo would need to run.
Any advice on how this is accomplished would be greatly appreciated.
Also, forgot to mention the sales rep also kept talking about how a redlion display that he also reps can communicate with the servo drive.
Have a big learning curve.
Thanks