When Italian packaging machinery maintenance and repair company TMS required an urgent upgrade for obsolete motion control equipment on aged tissue wrapping machinery, it turned to Trio Motion, whose MC224 Motion Co-ordinator controller was combined with a new six-axis brushless servo system to provide a drop-in replacement that “seamlessly mimicked” the machine’s web tension, electronic cam and registration functions - with the added bonus of much improved performance and reliability.
Identifying a world market for a new product, TMS hit on the idea of producing as near a form-fit retrofit as possible, and commissioned local systems integrator FAE Engineering to help develop the system that has now been now launched as the TMotionS.
The TMotionS is mechanically interchangeable with the old system, having the same mounting configuration and featuring a front faced interfacing panel with an identical DB connector arrangement. Installation is said to involve simply bolting it into the existing panel and connecting cable assemblies for the existing brushless servo motors and encoders, and hooking up the interfacing cables to the wrapping machine’s PLC.
The MC244 controller is also claimed to offer much improved print registration accuracy - and higher acceleration/deceleration characteristics with less vibration that help contribute to faster production throughput.
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