Automating Drive Optimization

Lenze introduces auto-tuning, a fast and easy way to optimize the control loop in a drive during commissioning.

Lenze Autotuning Pelv2021
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Lenze, a specialist in motion centric automation, showcased its Smart Servo Axis set up, a scalable drive that uses Lenze’s latest technology achievement—an auto-tuning capability that will reduce the time it takes to do high-precision tuning of the control loop in a drive.

On display at the Lenze booth (C-1602) at PACK EXPO Las Vegas, the Smart Servo Axis consists of the company’s i950 servo inverter, the m850 synchronous motor, and the g700 planetary gearbox with One Cable Technology.

“The most important part is that the i950 drive itself comes with technology applications ready to go as part of the firmware of the drive,” said Daniel Repp, Lenze’s business development manager, automation solutions. “That means that you only set parameters, you don’t have to program the drive.”

The ready-to-go technology applications for speed control, positioning, winding, electronic gearing, etc., is part of the firmware of the drive. Lenze has engineering software, which can be downloaded for free, to connect to the drive and that’s where  parameters are set. “You don’t have to be a super experienced engineer anymore because you just set parameters,” Repp said.