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Controls Product Brief
| October 4, 2011

Multi-axis motion controllers

Siemens’ new generation of Simotion D445-2 multi-axis controllers has new features such as onboard Profinet interfaces, high-speed I/O, and with 3 times the performance, a single controller can support up to 128 axes of motion.

Designed for all levels of performance--from simple single-axis positioning tasks to complex synchronous applications--with extremely short cycle times on a large numbers of axes. Scalability provides a high degree of flexibility. The system not only offers PLC, motion control and advanced technology functions, but also an integrated drive control based upon Siemens Sinamics S120 drives. 

SOURCE: http://www.packworld.com/controls/motors/multi-axis-motion-controllers