CANopen Meets Simplicity: Faster Motion Control with QuickStart Control

Dunkermotoren today detailed how pairing established CANopen communication with its QuickStart Control functionality helps machine builders and OEMs reduce engineering effort and accelerate development, without sacrificing flexibility or performance. For machine builders and OEMs, motion control is expected to deliver more than reliable communication. Today’s automation projects require shorter development cycles, faster commissioning, reduced programming effort, and greater flexibility across multiple machine platforms.

Dunkermotoren addresses these challenges by combining established CANopen communication with QuickStart Control, a powerful functionality that simplifies the implementation of motion control applications. The result is a solution that enables machine builders to realize motion functions faster, reduce engineering complexity, and accelerate time-to-market without sacrificing flexibility or performance.

More Than Communication

CANopen has long been an established communication standard within Dunkermotoren’s portfolio. Based on the widely adopted CiA 301 and CiA 402 standards, it provides a reliable and interoperable foundation for motion control applications across a broad range of industries.

While CANopen ensures standardized communication between controllers and drive systems, the real challenge for many OEMs lies elsewhere: implementing motion functions, programming PLCs, commissioning machines, and maintaining consistency across multiple machine variants. This is where QuickStart Control delivers significant value.

Reduced Engineering Through QuickStart Control

QuickStart Control enables commonly used motion functions to be executed directly within the drive system. Instead of developing and validating extensive PLC code for every motion sequence, machine builders can access predefined motion functions that significantly simplify implementation.
By shifting recurring tasks from the controller to the drive, engineering teams can reduce programming effort, shorten commissioning times, and simplify machine validation processes.

For OEMs, this translates into tangible business benefits:

• Reduced PLC programming effort
• Faster development and commissioning
• Reuse of validated motion functions across projects
• Reduced engineering costs
• Faster time-to-market for new machine platforms
• Simplified diagnostics and troubleshooting
• Lower maintenance and lifecycle costs

Rather than repeatedly creating motion logic from scratch, engineering teams can leverage proven functionality and focus on developing value-adding machine features.

Supporting Modular Machine Concepts

The advantages become even more apparent in modular machine architectures. Many OEMs develop machine families that share common functional modules while serving different customer requirements. Maintaining consistency across those platforms can create significant engineering effort when different motion solutions require different software environments, programming approaches, or commissioning procedures.
With CANopen and QuickStart Control, machine builders can standardize motion control concepts across multiple machine variants, including Dunkermotoren’s dCore, dMove, dPro and dGo drive families. Motion functions that have already been tested and validated can be reused, reducing development risk and accelerating new product introductions. This allows manufacturers to scale machine designs more efficiently while maintaining a consistent user experience for engineering, commissioning, and service teams.

Part of a Broader Modular Motion Ecosystem

CANopen and QuickStart Control are also key elements of Dunkermotoren’s Modular Motion System approach.
Within this ecosystem, customers can flexibly combine motors, gearboxes, encoders, brakes, intelligent drives, and external controllers while maintaining a consistent communication and control philosophy. This gives OEMs the freedom to select the most suitable drive architecture for each application while benefiting from a familiar and scalable motion environment.
As machine requirements evolve, users can expand or adapt their solutions without fundamentally changing their engineering approach.

Faster Motion Control, Lower Total Costs

In today’s competitive manufacturing environment, reducing complexity is often just as important as increasing performance.
By combining the proven advantages of CANopen communication with the simplicity of QuickStart Control, Dunkermotoren helps machine builders implement motion functions more efficiently, reduce engineering effort, and accelerate machine development.
The result is a smarter approach to motion control: one that shortens development cycles, improves scalability, and lowers total cost of ownership throughout the machine lifecycle.

For more information visit: https://www.dunkermotoren.com/en/knowledge/canopen-servo-drives

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