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LINK is an ultra high speed distributed drive control system.
It enables all machine control elements including variable
speed drives, operator controls and plant I/O to be networked
together to provide integrated machine control of unrivalled
flexibility.
- Total configurability for the most advanced multi-drive
systems
- Noise immune fiber optic based highway
- Real time peer-to-peer communications
- Fieldbus compatibility
- Modem remote access capability
- AC and DC networked drives
Communication speeds of 2.7 Mbaud allows LINK to operate a real
time, event driven, deterministic network. Each control element of
the machine or process is interconnected on a single, noise
immune, fiber optic cable, which replaces the myriad of control
wires traditionally associated with multi-drive systems. Typically
savings of 50% in site cabling time and cost are possible with
LINK compared to a standard wired system.
Each LINK system may comprise any combination of SSD Drives
sensorless and closed loop AC drives (690+, 605 and 620 series) or
DC drives (590+ series). Digital and analog plant equipment can be
interfaced onto the network via local or distributed I/O modules
and a variety of gateway devices allow seamless integration with
PC based control and monitoring packages.
The major component parts of a LINK control system are listed
below. There are however many other interface and peripheral
components available that make LINK the world’s most flexible
control system, so please contact your nearest SSD Drives sales
outlet to discuss your application in detail.
Listing of LINK Products
- LinkRacks: high speed intelligent controllers
- LinkStations: touch-sensitive, color LCD operator stations
- Digital I/O LinkCard: 16 x 24V channel digital input/output
module
- Analog I/O LinkCard: 8 x Input and 2 x Output analog module
- RTN Fiber Optic LinkCard
- Devicenet LinkCard
- Profibus LinkCard
- Serial Link/Modbus LinkCard
- Remote Analog I/O Unit
- Remote Digital I/O Unit
- DDE Interface
- Universal Gateway: to additional Bus standards including
Data Highway, Ethernet and VME.
DRIVE SYSTEM DESIGNER
Revolutionary System Design Software
Drive System Designer (“DSD”) is like no other drive software.
With the Auto Configure option, it actually designs the drive
control system for you! You simply enter basic data on your
process (line speed, web tension etc) and identify the function of
each drive (unwind, nip roll etc) and DSD does the rest by
selecting and configuring all the LINK hardware and software.
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