Schneider Electric PacDrive 3 Robotics & Safety

A single LMC logic motion controller runs logic, motion and robotics together. Drives, servo motors and I/O are linked over Sercos III with integrated safety, and the system is engineered in SoMachine Motion. The example is a cartoner with infeed, grouping, robots and conveyor.

• LMC controller: logic, motion and robotics in one
• Sercos III real-time bus with integrated safety
• Ethernet, OPC, FTP, HTTP, SNMP for plant integration

Ready-made kinematics in the PacDrive 3 software let one controller run many robot types, from fast delta pickers to large gantries, without a separate robot controller.

• Delta 2, Delta 3 and SCARA
• Portal and gantry (Cartesian) systems
• Articulated arm (Knickarm)

Example packaging line: grouped products are fed by conveyors and placed into cartons by several robots, all synchronised by one PacDrive 3 motion controller.

• Product infeed and grouping on conveyors
• Multiple robots for case packing
• Synchronised by a single motion controller

Modular I/O system on Sercos III, with a bus coupler, standard digital/analogue I/O and red safety I/O modules in one slice-style system. Field signals and safety signals are handled on the same network.

• Sercos III bus coupler
• Standard digital/analogue I/O slices
• Integrated safety I/O modules (red)

Compact SLC 100 safety controller that runs safety functions such as emergency stop and guard monitoring, and communicates over Sercos III with the PacDrive 3 system.

• Safety logic controller for machine safety functions
• Sercos III interface
• Rotary switches, status display and removable memory