Compact drives: Unified control VEMoDRIVE-Automation permits flexible retrospective realisation of customer wishes
Configuration instead of programming – that quite aptly summarises the objective of VEMoDRIVE-Automation, which has been developed as a single management platform for the compact drive solution VEMoDRIVE. A drive system comprising the components motor, frequency converter and transformer can now be monitored and controlled through a common unified controller.
The advantage for the customer: In the past, the individual drive components were also handled separately. An internal control unit for the frequency converter and a programmable logic controller (PLC) for the control and monitoring of further drive components such as transformer, motor, cooling, etc. Constant reconfiguration and programming of the PLC was practically unavoidable. With the new modular topology solution developed by VEM transresch, the customer is offered a complex one-point control system. It features just a single operator panel for the various external interfaces. Further analogue or digital inputs and outputs can be added at any later time without requiring a new PLC.
“We have some very experienced experts in our team, and their know-how from countless commissioning assignments is reflected in the broad functionality of our universal automation platform,” says engineer Helmut Lüers from VEM transresch. “There are presently only a handful of suppliers on the market for such complex solutions.”
VEM is currently equipping a railway test stand with the innovative control system VEMoDRIVE-Automation. When the test stand is taken into service in 2014, the new control system will also be able to demonstrate its prowess in practical use.