Add Yaskawa Servo Performance to your PLC Environment

Yaskawa's SigmaLogic7 servo amplifier allows you to add the performance of Yaskawa servos to your PLC programming environment. Watch this video to see how easy it is to integrate Yaskawa servos into your RS Logix control platform to maximize the performance of your servo system.

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00:00:00 [Music] hi my name is matt smith i'm a regional motion engineer for yaskawa based out of chicago i'll be going over a sigmalogic demo for you today in front of me we've got a allen bradley compactlogix l35e plc and our sigma 7

00:00:38 sigmalogic compact controller the software i have in front of me is called logic works it's what we use to commission our sigmalogic 7 compact drives in this case i've got a sigma logic drive already set up so i'm just going to connect to it and do an overview of the configuration software

00:01:01 that's free and downloadable off our website so here you can check and confirm the versions on the hardware you can configure units so we work in real engineering units whether that be revolutions millimeters inches you can set it up for rotary axis as well so you don't have to worry about encoder

00:01:19 counts it's all using real engineering units we isolate some of the important parameters for the drive so there's no big parameter list there's a couple check boxes and some variables to fill in and then it also gives an availability of a test run for the sigma logic so before you have

00:01:38 it hooked up to an allen bradley plc you can control the access without writing any code so we confirm that our power wiring our motor wiring is correct we can confirm direction we can confirm scaling all without writing any code but from that point on the sigma logic has been configured

00:02:12 so what we can do is go back to the allen bradley software rslogix 5000 so inside of that i'm connected to our plc and we've got our signalogic drive added to the network so it's simply a generic device that is added in to specify a certain assembly instance of a fixed size

00:02:34 so once that's added our aois then know how to map the data correctly so there's a few aois that are necessary to get the axis communicating with rockwell plc the first one is going to be the mcfg function block that gives you status information of the sigma logic such as position torque and speed

00:02:56 there's also a heartbeat so if communications has failed the drive will turn off from this standpoint all you have to do is specify the axis and throughout your allen bradley program you'll use that axis name to enable and control the axis so the name formatting you can see is very familiar to common

00:03:19 rockwell aois such as the servo on with a click of a button here we can enable the access we'll have status feedback that the servo is on and then we can get motion out of it the easiest way to do that is to use the maj aoi so here we've got a simple jog forward where we can enable and toggle the bit on

00:03:43 and then we can toggle it off as we scroll down through here we've got other supported aois such as an mam a move so if you're not familiar with how to parameterize a move type you can always right click on the instruction help we've got embedded help inside each aoi so if you're trying to understand

00:04:07 how to set up that aoi you can refer to the help file to understand the units and what direction would be forward and in this mam aoi you can do incremental or absolute moves we've also got a blending aoi so you can do two moves together without coming to a stop it's helpful for

00:04:32 press applications we need to do a rapid move down close to the part and then do a slow creep into the part there are also homing aois so those are another one that if you don't know the homing type you can always go to the help file because we've got a variety of homing types so inside the help you can see that we

00:05:05 can home to hard stops just define a position home to over travels all of our sigma 7 motors come with absolute encoders so the homing procedure can just be done once and then it's set until something changes mechanically or the motor gets replaced so it reduces on homing configurations

00:05:24 and the time it takes to home a machine that's the end of my presentation on the sigma logic thanks for joining me you