Applied Motion Products, Inc. released Modbus TCP support across a range of drives and integrated motors. Several product families from Applied Motion Products now support Modbus TCP, the widely used industrial Ethernet protocol.
Modbus, with its simplicity and widespread acceptance by PLC and HMI platforms, enables benefits when paired with Applied Motion drives and integrated motors. By mapping Applied Motion’s proprietary SCL commands to Modbus opcodes, machine designers have access to the full motion capabilities of Applied Motion drives. This offers more sophisticated levels of control in PLC-based pulse control signals. It is also possible to launch stored programs over the Modbus connection, which further extends the performance capabilities when compared to a conventional step and direction control scheme. Stored programs are written in Applied Motion’s Q programming language.
Supported Products:
Product families with support for Modbus TCP now include the following:
- ST Series Stepper Drives​
- STM Integrated Steppers
- TSM Step SERVO Integrated Motors​
- TXM Step SERVO Integrated Motors
