The high precision and advanced control capabilities of kinetix servo technology are now available in lower power ranges with the new allen-bradley kinetix 2000 servo drives from rockwell automation. These servo drives are ideal for small packaging applications, these additions to the kinetix family offer end users an even wider selection of motion control performance capabilites, while enabling oems to expand their offerings with solutions that better suit end users with lower power requirements. Some of the optional features of these servo drives include: power rail - one simple power rail serves as a mounting and connecting system, making design and installation fast and easy while minimizing wiring and maintenance costs; and sercos interface - a single, digital fibre-optic link provides seamless integration into the allen-bradley logix controller platforms for kinetix multi-axis integrated motion, and eliminates up to 18 discrete wires per axis. With power ranges of 300 w to 3 kw, this new servo drive seamlessly integrates with allen-bradley logix controllers, servo motors and actuators to bring unmatched flexibility to machine design and unprecedented energy efficiency to manufacturing control systems. The kinetix 2000 is scalable for handling a wide range of applications ranging from 300 watts to 3 kilowatts, as with the rest of the kinetix servo drives,. Additionally, the ability of the drives to integrate with the rest of the control platform simplifies machine design, commissioning and operation. The modular design of the kinetix servo drives helps minimize wiring time and related costs by greatly reducing the total number of connections. When they are teamed with the allen-bradley mp-series low inertia servo motor and the 230v allen-bradley tl-series motor along with the compactlogix l43 controller the cost-effectiveness of the kinetix 2000 drives can be fully realized.
