Automation Systems

Decades of direct practical experience and customer contact are the background to the astounding openness, versatility and performance of Schleicher’s current automation solutions – integrated systems from a single supplier, setting standards for integration and practicability.

Schleicher’s controllers have a unique advantage. Only they unite complex motion control (CNC) with logic control (PLC) to open up astonishing possibilities, for example controlling welding current by feedrate or activating saved motion programs to coordinate smooth movements. Schleicher has redefined MotionControl in terms of functionality, flexibility and elegance of operation.

COP 300 / COP 400 - The new Touch operator panels with High End performance: »Human-Machine-Interfaces« for greater user comfort

With excellent image quality, the new Touch operator panels of Schleicher invite for »communication« with the control world. The range comprises sizes of 4.3 up to 15 inches and represents different price categories. Always produced in accordance with impressive quality standard, casing versions and designs are available in metal or plastic.

Characteristics like maximum functionality, excellent visualization and fast data transfer are common to all systems. Furthermore, the parallel connection of several PLCs for each panel is possible. Aside from the use of »classic« interfaces, serial and ethernet, the higher quality operator panels also allow integration into TCP/IP networks.

Via special editors that access a standard object library, visualization projects can be implemented easily and comfortably via PC and then transferred to the terminals.

The COP 300 series combines state-of-the-art features and performance with an outstanding design. They are the ideal choice for every HMI application including factory and building automation.

The touch panels of the COP 400 series are equipped with the operating system Windows CE ® and a powerful micro browser technology they are the ideal choice for web server based visualisations and operating interfaces.

Intelligent Signal Management
Field bus connection of peripherals is standard these days. This increases the importance of intelligent signal management for efficient mediation between controller and periphery. The well thought-out, advanced RIO I/O system is streets ahead with its wide range of modules, which pick up, pass on and output the process-specific signal mix as required. RIO offers further scope for increasing the efficiency of periphery communication with the microLine mini-controller and the RIO function modules, which allow distributed data preprocessing with plant-floor controller performance.

Bus Couplers connect the modules to a Profibus-DP, CANopen, DeviceNet or InterBus field bus:
- 8 RIO I/O modules can be connected in any combination (digital, analog, function modules)
- Up to 128 digital or 56 analog I/Os can be connected locally
- Field bus diagnosis via LEDs
- BC series with display, keypad and integrated commissioning and diagnosis functions:
- Display I/O values
- Force inputs and outputs
- Trace function for diagnosis
- Non-volatile definition of control states
- Programmable preferred shut-off state
- User lockout with optional password
- EC series as low-cost economy version without the special BC features

Digital I/O Modules with 8 or 16 channels and vibration-resistant spring terminals:
- DC 24 V, AC and relay modules
- Combination channels can be used as inputs or outputs
- Max. output current per channel 1 A
- Outputs can be connected in parallel, short-circuit-proof and overcurrent-protected
- Simple diagnosis via LEDs

Analog I/O Modules detect measured values and pass position signals to the field peripherals:
- Voltage inputs as differential inputs with ±10 V
- Current inputs as single-ended inputs, range 0..20 mA or 4..20 mA
- Resolution of A/D-D/A converter: 12-bit
- Sampling rate 2 ms
- Outputs short-circuit-proof

Terminal Extensions
create two additional jumpering levels, allowing three-wire connection on all RIO module types.

Compact I/Os
with up to 16 digital channels and integrated bus coupler for Profibus-DP, CANopen, DeviceNet and InterBus.

Function Modules
The function modules measure and evaluate distributed processes. They free capacity in the central controller and improve local precision, because their millisecond reaction time is immune to field bus delay and PLC cycle time.

Axis Interface
Incremental/absolute encoder interface
Inputs for limit switch, reference cam, servo amplifier ready
Output for controller enable
Combination input/output can be used as required
Analog output ±10 V.
Positioning
Positioning of two axesPositioning and homing with and without zero signalEvaluation of two limit switchesCountersIndependent up/down counters up to 200 kHzTwo 32-bit counters with two threshold values or four 16-bit counters with one threshold value.

Temperature Sensing
Module for four Pt100 / Pt1000 sensors, measuring range -100 to +450 °CModule for four K/J/L thermoelements, measuring range -200 to +1369 °CResolution 0.1 °C over the whole measuring range.

Excellent Price and Performance
The new XCx controller series brings a wind of change to automation with its combination of efficiency and convenience. The different performance classes provide the fast-flexible-economical solution for machine tools, production machines, robotics and handling. XCx also makes a convincing contribution to factory automation as central or sub-controllers.

CNC Integrates PLC
Complicated PLC programming for simple axis control? Doing without the convenience of PLC in complex CNC applications? Permanent CNC/PLC synchronization on the XCx gives an enormous boost to productivity, because it allows complex processes that would normally be unthinkable. Transparent integration of motion and logic control opens up unimagined new possibilities, such as position detection on interrupt signal, valve control linked to path motion, adapting welding current to path feedrate, or simple activation of saved motion programs to coordinate smooth movements.

Open for Your Application
XCx controllers are true communication professionals, open in all directions and easy to connect. Communication via Ethernet and TCP/IP with OPC server and integrated web server means you can run visualization and data entry on any standard browser. The parameterizing, diagnosis and test functions can be called directly on site, in the local network or on the Internet. Expansion cards for field buses, drives, networking and fast I/O points allow flexible adaptation to almost any task.

Fast and Convenient
Extra convenience normally slows a system down. Not on XCx. It unites the advantages of the IPC – many interfaces, interchangeable memory media, high performance – with the efficiency and long-term stability of a conventional controller. XCx gains its clear speed advantage by concentrating on the essentials in combination with convenient day-to-day use.

• Interpolates up to 64 CNC axes in 32 NC subsystems
• Synchronizes interpolated motions with switching processes
• Coordinates path motion with technology parameters
• Processes freeform contours and electronic cams as well as straight lines and circle and helix contours
• Transforms any machine kinematics into Cartesian coordinates
• Controls NC servo drives via CANopen, Sercos and SLM (Control Techniques)
• Connects the sensor/actuator level with fast series-connected I/Os and CANopen
• Communicates as standard via Ethernet and TCP/IP in any factory network, via CAN in any system
• Visualizes @ Web in HTML and Java on any standard browser via integrated web server and via OPC server for standard visualization software, and on directly connected terminals
• Sends alarms by text message or e-mail with specific alarm messages such as “Coolant low”
• Logs via serial interface or direct to compact flash
• Allows easy updating worldwide via compact flash Integrated