Baldor Electric Company: Motion controller

The NextMove BX motion controller from Baldor (Fort Smith, AK) can control up to four axes of servo or closed-loop vector, more than 500 points of I/O and two serial ports, all in one unit.

Dec 31, 1998

High-speed motion control is achieved with the unit's floating point DSP, which runs at 32 MHz. Two CAN ports permit I/O expansion, and serial ports allow the NextMove BX to control intelligent instruments such as bar-code readers while connected to a plant-wide supervisory controller.

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