EDITORIAL

Cédric Errard, Crouzet Motors,

Custom Sensors & Technologies (CST)

In 2015, Crouzet Motors is continuing to innovate, offering its customers efficient, connected solutions that can cope with the most severe environments. Developed in synergy with customers, our motion control solutions are designed to ensure ease of use while offering first-rate performance.This issue includes a preview of our CANopen Brushless motor with independent safety inputs and available options. These will allow you to integrate this motor irrespective of your machine environment. The motor is our DCmind and is already recognized as the market reference because of its unique performance.

Designer and manufacturer, expert in the field of motion control and adaptation specialist, Crouzet Motors, together with the other Custom Sensors & Technologies (CST) brands, offers you unique expertise and provides customized solutions that can include position sensors, encoders, PLCs, etc.We are your development partner, your product designers, with unparalleled expertise in motion control systems to help you create YOUR solution.

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Newsletter no. 6 - June 2015

New programs for DCmind Soft

SPOTLIGHT

Two new programs are now available. As usual for these programs, all you need to configure the motor and run it is the data relating to your application.

“Metering” program: ideally suited to applications such as peristaltic pumps, this program allows users to choose one of the following options:- Flow control (l/min): the continuous flow is adjustable by 0/10 V control. The motor speed of rotation can vary from 1 rpm to 4000 rpm. Four speed ranges are available and allow fine adjustment.- Delivery of fixed doses (ml): one dose adjustable by 0/10 V control and three doses preset when the program is uploaded. The time it takes to deliver these doses is also preset.

“Conveyor with stopping on detection” program: this program was created for conveyor belt applications which need to stop on a very precise spot when an item is detected.The assembly line speed and stopping distance are adjustable by 0/10 V control (potentiometer).

Input / Output simulator:In order to test or use the motor from the PC, without using the motor control physical inputs, an “IO Box” has been created. The “IO Box” recognises the program used by the motor and is displayed in a practical format adapted to the way it is used.

The “IO Box” works even when the motor’s physical inputs and outputs (control cable wires) are operating inside the machine. This greatly simplifies the machine’s setup phases.

Peristaltic pump

Virtual input/output station

DCmind Brushless with CANopenNEWS HIGHLIGHTS

With its range of DCmind Brushless motors, Crouzet Motors is also targeting

the access control market. Increasingly, applications in this field require reliable high-performance motors with a long service life.A specialist in motorization solutions with control electronics for demanding applications, Crouzet Motors is currently developing fully dedicated drive mechanisms adapted to the specific requirements of access control, such as rising bollards, for example.The installation of rising bollards must comply with various constraints and the drive mechanism for these bollards has to comply with various criteria:

- management of up and down travel with acceleration and deceleration ramps- using torque control to keep the bollard in the open or closed position- management of obstacles while the bollard rises- management of emergency situations- good mechanical performance of the geared motorTo meet these demanding criteria, Crouzet Motors has developed an application program specifically for the SMi21 electronic control unit and a strengthened drive mechanism. This is how we have been able to integrate all these functions in the geared motor.The DCmind Brushless motor and its SMi21 customized electronic unit have allowed our customers to design a more compact rising bollard that is quicker to produce, easy to set up, and exactly matches their specifications.

Crouzet Motors - Newsletter no. 6 - June 2015

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DCmind motors for Access control

Crouzet Motors is launching the CANopen communication bus on its DCmind Brushless motors.

The CANopen communication bus allows a master system to control several motors (up to 127) using just one cable. This cable runs from one motor to the next and the master can address each of the motors separately to control a movement, make an adjustment or run diagnostics.The CANopen system is a very robust system, ideally suited to motion control (controlling the motor’s position, speed and torque, complex movements, etc).

Dedicated to demanding applications, these motors have M16 and M12 industrial connectors. The power supply has its own connector, thus allowing high powers to circulate without disturbing the control signals. Crouzet Motors has integrated the CANopen protocol, allowing the DCmind Brushless motor to be installed in the most complex machines. Functions have also been added to assist its integration and improve machine productivity and safety. The widest operating voltage range on the market (9 to 75 V, 100 V absolute rating). - Allows operation with motors from different manufacturers and with different power ratings.

- Allows outdoor operation, on a 12 V battery with solar panel or as backup.

- Safety option: the new SMi21 electronic control unit dedicated to CANopen has a “2 safety input” hardware option. These are inputs which, in the event of a failure, lock the motor power stage control and thus cut the power supply to the motor windings (the motor goes into freewheel mode). Their action does not go through the microcontroller and therefore ensures a high level of safety.

- Separate logical power supply option: this option prevents position information from being lost if the main power supply fails. It can be created for example by a simple 12 V battery which continuously recharges itself on the main power supply. In countries where power cuts are a regular event, this option is used to avoid having to repeat “homing” phases (learning the reference position) during manufacture.

DID YOU KNOW?

Crouzet Motors - Newsletter no. 6 - June 2015

Crouzet Motors can offer you unique solutions

of products manufactured by Crouzet Motors are products adapted from our standard ranges or products specially developed for our customers.80%

Illustration showing a brush motor’s magnetic performanceCrouzet Motors means:

•Tried-and-tested qualification processes > Electromechanical and acoustics laboratory > Temperature, humidity, longevity tests > ISO 9001, 6 sigma, lean manufacturing, etc

Crouzet Motors means:• Industrial facilities > Two production sites > Assembly lines, machine shop, connections, cast

moulding and winding

Crouzet Motors means:• A global sales network

Crouzet Motors means: • Easy access to the other commercial brands of Custom Sensors &

Technologies (CST) allows us to capitalize on the other brands skills and expertize (encoders, PLCs, switches) and their resources (machining station, printed circuit

boards, etc) to develop THE PRODUCT you need, THE complete, unique SOLUTION!

Crouzet Motors means: • Design expertise in: > Magnetism > Mechanical engineering > Electronic engineering > Thermal control

Example of customer adaptation

CUTTING SHAFTS AND GEARS

WINDING WINDING AXIS LINE BRUSHLESS LINE

3 QUESTIONS FOR...OLIVIER ROUSSEAU Crouzet Motors Logistics Manager.

Olivier Rousseau, you are the Logistics Manager at Crouzet Motors. Could you tell us about your career and what you are currently doing at Crouzet Motors?Olivier Rousseau: My career has always focused on operational aspects. I have worked in Quality Control, Production, Purchasing and Logistics. Each time, my mission was to turn around under-performing departments. At Crouzet Motors, I love the two-fold challenge my job represents: a managerial challenge – refocusing the team on the fundamentals of logistics – and a challenge to boost the company’s logistics performance, which had huge potential for improvement. The complex logistics involved must be optimised if we are to serve our customers better.

What drove Crouzet Motors to upgrade its logistics offer?O.R.: Several things. The first is an observation: the logistics information we were giving our customers was not sufficiently detailed. We needed to improve the way we formalise our offer in order to help the sales teams. The second is a desire to optimise our response to customers’ expectations: delivering products more quickly with the highest quality.

We have completely overhauled our logistics management in order to identify ways in which we could improve. We set targets for ourselves and put in place the necessary resources to achieve them. The “On Time Delivery” has improved by 3 points in the space of a year.With all the support services, we altered the manufacturing cycles, reviewed our storage policies, our minimum order quantities and our packaging in order to redefine a more precise offer our customers can rely on!What does your logistics offer consist of now?

O.R.: We have reduced the overall assembly time and have completely overhauled all our procurement deadlines. By combining both these criteria, we have redefined reliable contractual lead times. We have reduced the delivery lead time for 1400 products to between 40 and 60 days rather than the previous 80. We have reduced the delivery lead time for 2000 products by an average of 30 days. 99% of customer orders were confirmed with standard lead times and 95% were delivered on time last year. Our goal is to give our customers reliable lead times.Our minimum order quantities correspond to one complete layer of

products in our packaging. The idea is to be able to deliver firmly-packed products so they do not get damaged in transit, in accordance with our Premium strategy. For 2015, we will of course be consolidating the processes put in place in 2014 to maintain our excellent level of delivery performance. We will also work to reduce the lead times for our DCmind Brush motors and our Brushless motors.

To achieve this, we are collaborating with our suppliers to streamline procurement. In our business, foresight is an important element because it allows us to anticipate procurement and shorten lead times. With this in mind, we have launched a project to improve the reliability of our forecasts.

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Managing editor: Françoise Kayzakian Editor in chief: Valérie Balcet valerie.balcet@cstsensors.com

Contributors: Cédric Errard, Michel Nicol, Benoît Rey, Olivier Rousseau, Valérie Balcet, Karine Poirier.

Crouzet Motors - Newsletter no. 6 - June 2015

“Optimised logistics”

“Delivering more quickly with the highest quality”

“Giving our customers reliable lead times”