Baldor Motion Control

Baldor provides a wide range of motion control solutions for the automation industry by offering a choice of easy to use programmable motion controllers (positioners) with multi-tasking capability and drives (amplifiers) to suit many applications - the NextMove family is available in PCI format or standalone; the FlexDrive family covers a wide power range; and Ethernet Powerlink (e100 series) provides designers with real-time solutions. Offering between 1 and 12 axes of control, Baldor motion controllers are available with digital and analog I/O for complete machine control. The CAN bus interface can be used to expand the I/O configuration.

Motion control systems can be up and running quickly thanks to Baldor's Mintprogramming language. Mint is a versatile, yet easy to use, Basic like programming language. A wide range of programmable moves are supported including trapezoidal, S-ramp, linear and circular interpolation, helical interpolation, electronic CAM, gearbox and flying shear. User defined profiles can be added using the supplied embedded 'C' libraries. Mint also supports full control of the I/O and communications back to a host controller. Machine level networking and optional operator panel control can all be controlled under a single Mint application program.

Our latest generation NextMove controllers and intelligent drive, MintDrive, all support multi-tasking Mint, with the ability to write complex programs easily. The number of tasks is limited only by available memory.

A complete set of ActiveX components are supplied with the controllers, allow full motion and I/O sequencing to be performed on a host PC. Application programs can be written in popular programming languages such as Visual Basic™, Delphi and LabView.

The motion controllers are complemented by a complete range of servo drives.