NYQUIST COMBINES THE BENEFITS OF MOTION CONTROL AND NUMERIC CONTROL IN A CNC MACHINE

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NYQUIST COMBINES THE BENEFITS OF MOTION CONTROL AND NUMERIC CONTROL IN A CNC MACHINE
15 April 2002 - Nyquist Industrial Control

Nyquist Industrial Control, the supplier of open, PC technology-based Motion Control systems from Eindhoven, has shown that its NYCe system is not just suitable for advanced high-tech control, but that it can also be used for controlling CNC applications. At the Hannover Fair, Nyquist will demonstrate how its Motion Control technology (the Nyquist KS3000), combined with the advanced and fully digital Servostar 600 of Kollmorgen-Seidel, enables easy control of a CNC machine. This will result in a more accurate, more dynamic, faster, and safer machine.

For this project, Nyquist uses a 5-axis cutting machine, made available by the Institut für Steuerungstechnik der Werkzeugmaschinen und Fertigungseinrichtungen from Stuttgart. In co-operation with Industrielle Steuerungstechnik GmbH, Nyquist developed a prototype that is based on the PC-based NYCe3000 control platform with its open and versatile software. In addition to the Servostar 600 (Kollmorgen-Seidel) in combination with the Nyquist KS3000, this CNC control may be linked equally simply to the digital M'Ax servo amplifier of Control Techniques in combination with the Nyquist CT3000.

The ISG software has been integrated in the Nyquist software. For this, Nyquist uses a standard PC, standard available external connections such as Ethernet and FireWire IEEE 1394, and the usual Windows control system with the relevant drivers.

This soft CNC solution allows you to continue to use a CNC interface and trajectory generator, with all the added advantages of special Motion Control features, such as error groups and the linking of axes. Other benefits offered by Nyquist Motion Controllers are higher accuracy and more dynamic, faster, and safer machines. This soft CNC solution is very well suited for the control of both special machines, for which the CNC machines currently available on the market do not suffice, and special robot control.

Nyquist has made effective use of open software and evolved the PC into a component of machine control. This makes belt cables and the corresponding plug-in card things of the past and the soft CNC solution can be combined with soft PLC or integrated into a CAD-CAM package. The CNC software supports the standard DIN 66025 G-code and has a comprehensive library of kinematic transformations that can also be changed dynamically.

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About: Nyquist Industrial Control
Nyquist has a long and rich history. A history that goes back to the beginning of the early seventies, when the company was still part of Philips. Since then, the organisation has played a pioneering role in the field of high-quality Motion Control systems, VME and PLC machine control platforms.

The foundations for the present-day company Nyquist Industrial Control were paved in the seventies. This happened when the first standardised servo system was developed, initially created for Philips' internal machine building. This led to a large international installed base, both within and outside of our own organisation. For instance, the doors of the Dutch Railways' trains are still fitted with VME-based control systems from Nyquist. And then just think of all the automatically opening bridges, traction systems, trams, machines for making glass moulds, embroidering machinery, pastry-making machines, ships' terminals, incinerators and water purification plants.

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