Versatile drives with functional safety

LinMot offers a modular system with functional safety for handling and assembly systems

Balancing the shortage of skilled labour, increasing production demands, safety requirements and the need for sustainable processes is an enormous challenge for many machine builders. To meet these complex requirements, LinMot offers an innovative and easily configurable modular system for highly dynamic handling and assembly systems with integrated functional safety.

The flexible modular system allows users to combine the space-optimised LinMot linear motors, modules and guides with proven cartesian structures such as semi-gantry, gantry or other multi-axis systems. In this way, even very complex industry-specific requirements can be implemented quickly and precisely, while maintaining high dynamics. Despite the integration of multiple carriages and Z-axes, LinMot systems remain extremely space-saving, have few disturbing contours and are easy to maintain and expand.

Due to their motion structure, LinMot linear motors, modules and guides are not only more energy and cost efficient than other kinematics, but also more flexible in workspace design and offer high speed, precise and repeatable motion control. This makes them ideal for applications that require precise movements and repeated positioning, such as highly dynamic sorting, pick-and-place and assembly applications, as well as capping, screwing and handling processes.

Multi-axis systems with functional safety

Your solution
With the introduction of a comprehensive package, LinMot now offers an innovative solution: Functional safety is integrated directly into the motor and drive, without having to change the proven design. As a result, both new and existing machine concepts benefit from the many advantages of LinMot’s integrated safety technology.

Your advantage
A major advantage is that all safety monitoring is integrated in the -2S servo drive, so no additional hardware is required. In addition to Safe Stop (STO) and Safe Shutdown (SS1), LinMot drives offer advanced safety functions such as Safe Stop 2 (SS2), Safe Operation Stop (SOS), Safe Limited Speed (SLS) and Safe Brake Control (SBC/SBT). Safe Brake Control (SBC) has also been extended to include Brake Test (SBT), which allows cyclical checking of the braking effect.

Your language
The new LinMot -2S servo drives communicate with the higher-level control system via various safety bus systems as required: users can use PROFIsafe via PROFINET and PROFIdrive or transfer protocols via EtherCAT (FSoE), Ethernet/IP, POWERLINK and SERCOS. Alternatively, safety functions can be activated via the integrated digital inputs.