Delivering Superior Machine Automation - Kerrco Automation Ltd

Delivering Superior Machine AutomationPACSystems, PACMotion and FANUC Servos

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Committed to Your SuccessGE Intelligent Platforms is a strategic partner for your long-term growth, providing high-performance technologies and built-in reliability to help you gain a sustainable competitive advantage.

Rely on a long-term trusted partner.

With GE, you have the security of working with a mature, stable, and highly respected partner that offers a depth and breadth of solutions, services and support—for success today and tomorrow.

Leverage innovative technologies.

We are a recognized global leader in automation with deep experience and expertise, leveraging the latest technologies to help you maximize the potential of your machine.

Increase your productivity.

Our expert solutions are proven to increase productivity with performance capabilities that deliver higher speed, reliability, and efficiency—driving value for you and your customers.

Delivering Value for OEMsBeyond the solution-building process

Your Strategic Partner…

Automation solutions are not based on commodity products; in particular, motion is a crucial part of machine quality and per-formance. As opposed to solely being a component supplier, our goal is to deliver more than just products, and we focus as an automation partner on identifying and providing the best-suited solutions for your machine or complete production line—some-times from Sensor to MES.

This type of global partnership creates an alliance where both partners can focus on their core strengths: Our competence is the engineering of the automation solution and the entire man-ufacturing process of the end user, while the machine OEM can focus its efforts on developing differentiators such as through-put, uptime, productivity and maintenance. The direct value of this alliance is faster time-to-market.

…for the Long Term

As a machine’s life cycle is often more than 10 years, trust in the automation supplier is crucial for a sustainable partnership. We are committed to the long-term results of our customers’ overall business, including the total cost of deployment and the impact of high reliability and uptime for end customers—resulting in increased revenues for machine OEMs due to a stronger reputa-tion in the market.

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A. The most innovative products for your machine

B. Unmatched reliability for your customers

C. Industry experience for your design

D. A global supplier for your supply chain

E. Quicker time-to-market for competitiveness

F. Integrated programming for your simplicity

G. The highest quality for your business

H. Productivity in manufacturing for profitability

THE VALUE A GE PARTNERSHIP BRINGS

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What We Provide Customers3 Quality

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As a motion leader in the machine market and a trusted advisor to manufacturing companies globally, we can help you meet your mission-critical goals and gain a sustainable advantage for the long term.

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PAC CONTROLLER

SERVO MOTORS

SERVO AMPLIFIERS

Innovation for Machine PerformanceReliability. Throughput. Flexibility.

The power of PACMotion*, PACSystems* and FANUC Servos

For complex multi-axis applications, the tight integration of PACMotion’s distributed CPU architecture, our ultra-reliable FANUC servos and PACSystems’ multi-functional controller platform provides the ultimate solution — enabling you to achieve faster, more consistent, high machine performance.

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OPERATOR INTERFACE

PACSystems

PACMotion

A revolutionary motion controller, PACMotion is built with our unique PACSynch system—controlling up to 40 axes of highly synchro-nized motion to maximize the productivity of your machine. The architecture of the system distrib-utes the processing requirements for the most scalable and powerful performance, no matter how com-plex the application.

FANUC Servo Systems

World renowned for its high qual-ity and cutting-edge technology, FANUC servos set the standard for reliability with a mean time between failure (MTBF) measured in decades. This high success rate translates into increased uptime and boosted productivity with extremely high speed, precision and efficiency.

PAC RX3i Controller

It’s packed with advanced features such as a patented high-speed processor, universal backplane and real-time data exchange for truly powerful performance.

A programmable automation con-troller (PAC) is a compact controller that combines the features and capabilities of a PC-based control system with that of a typical pro-grammable logic controller (PLC). Therefore, the PAC features not only reliability as a PLC but flexibility and power as a PC at the same time.

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DISTRIBUTED I/O

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Its unique design lends to success

The clear separation between the sensitive control electronic and the power electronic is crucial. In order to realize galvanic isolation and to ensure 100% noise immunity, the link between these two components is based on a Fiber Optic FSSB bus.

In addition, the communication topology between the control and servo system is designed for reliability: As in the IT world, where linking all decentralized computers to a single bus presents a major risk because a failure of a single subscriber somewhere in the “chain” would cause an interrupt for all par-ticipants, this risk is also valid in the automation world.

That’s why PACMotion allocates a separate bus for each axes group and promotes a mix of star-and-bus topology. All FSSB motion bus lines are synchronized via the innovative PCI bus technology of the PACSystems controller. This unique star-topology provides you with a significant competitive edge in machine uptime.

Maximizing Machine Uptime FANUC Servo Systems, designed for best-in-class reliability


FANUC α and βi Series Servo Drives offer superior reliability and performance for unprecedented mean time between failure.

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To help you improve the uptime for your general production machine, our world-leading FANUC servo systems seamlessly integrates with PACMotion. These well known “redcap motors” are a synonym for reliability, with an MTBF data of above 50 years—proof of its extraordinary reliability.


PACcore – Delivering higher throughput

PACMotion calculates and synchronizes all position commands, even with 40 servo-axes, in one millisecond. This capability is critical to deliver increased machine throughput for complex machines and provides a significant advantage over other motion controllers.

Whereas a single CPU would reach its limits due to a vast amount of motion calculations, PACMotion is based on PAC-core, a multi-core CPU architecture whereby the PAC CPU runs the application program while up to 10 dedicated co-CPUs run the motion algorithms. Therefore, the performance of the logic CPU is not reduced due to motion control, and the motion per-formance will never reach a limit—meeting your demands for higher production rates.

Maximizing Machine Throughput PACMotion’s distributed architecture for performance


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Integrated software and synchronization of all axes

However, while the CPU hardware is decentralized, the software such as logic, HMI and motion programs are central-ized and 100% integrated in a single user application program with a common tag basis—significantly reducing your engi-neering efforts.

The powerful PCI-bus allows data and command exchange in real time between the PAC CPU and the motion CPUs, in a way that all axes are synchronized with µs accuracy. The internal PCI-bus ensures better reliability because there is a sepa-rate motion bus for each axes group, which eliminates the chance of your machine coming to a halt due to a single bus error.

PACMOTION’S DISTINCT ADVANTAGE – THE PACCORE SYSTEM

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Maximizing Production FlexibilityInnovative Electronic Line Shaft Design

Dynamic Master / Slave Management

The implementation of the electronic line shaft feature set determines the product flexibility of your machine. PACMotion’s advanced Master/ Slave cascading technology offers something distinctive: Up to 40 axes can be the Master of any other axes, and up to 10 external encoders, motors or virtual axes can take over the Master function at the same time.

Without necessitating an interruption in your production, all Masters and Slaves can be determined in real time as well as engaged and disengaged—enabling dynamic axes synchroniza-tion management to increase machine uptime.

Decentralized High Speed I/O via Fiber Terminal Block

In addition to flexible servo axes, you need flexible Master syn-chronized I/Os for optimum product flexibility. To increase the speed of your machine, some PACMotion outputs are controlled in a µs time range and are linked up to 100 meters to a decen-tralized terminal block. Due to the transmission of these fast I/O signals via fiber optic, 100% noise immunity is assured.

This consistently reliable design for control is another piece of the puzzle to maximize the uptime of your production.

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PACMOTION’S ADVANTAGE – DYNAMIC FLEXIBILITY

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Maximizing the Automation of Your ProductionCombine the Reliability of a PLC with the Power of a PC

Cutting Edge CPU Technology and Intelligent Backplane

With a scalable range of CPUs with up to 1 Ghz M Class and up to 64 Mbytes of memory, the high-speed logic execution can precisely meet the needs for your machine. The intelligent back-plane, based on a fast PCI bus, offers the ability to move a huge amount of data between the CPU and the smart I/O modules, and eliminates the bottleneck of the traditional design.

Supports multiple power supplies for more power or redundancy

Ethernet with a built-in switch reduces hardware costs

Recessed portsprotect wires

Extensive status LEDs speed up troubleshooting


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Tie wraps to secure wires

Hot swap modulesreduce downtime

Cost competitiveexpansion modules


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High Speed Networking – C2C Communication in a Production Line

Does your production line need deterministic information sharing between the machine controllers in real time? Could it benefit your production efficiency to collect production and machine data in high speed?

Due to outstanding transfer rates of up to 174 Mbytes, the CMX network shares all product and machine information of all con-trollers within your production line. CMX is “shared memory on a wire” without limitation. Challenge us with your requirements!

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Maximizing CommunicationC2C Communication in a Production Line

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Customers can depend on us to develop solutions for global deployment that are compliant with worldwide standards.

Our commitment to quality began decades ago, and it defines our processes today. It is evident with our consistent recertifica-tion to the latest ISO, ANSI, and IPC standards. In addition, our solutions are designed from the ground up for high performance with the utmost reliability, plus UL, CE, RoHS and WEEE compli-ance. We participate in industry organizations such as MESA, ISA, World Batch Forum, MIMOSA, OPC Foundation, PICMG®, VITA, and IEEE so that our products interoperate with standards-based solutions. And since the best components make the best products, we rigorously evaluate our certified suppliers on everything from system quality to documentation control.


To learn more, visit www.ge-ip.com/pacmotion

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