Yaskawa Electric Corporation (Head Office: Kita-Kyushu, Fukuoka, Japan; Representative Director, President: Masahiro Ogawa) announced the “i³-Mechatronics” solution concept in 2017, which adds digital data management to automation solutions, to realize the “new industrial automation revolution” set forth in the “Vision 2025”, and it enhances product development to make this concept a reality. The company launched a new controller solution called “iCube Control”. In this controller solution, it launches the MPX1000 series, a new machine controller with improved performance and enhanced functionality, as a new model succeeding the MP3000 series, a machine controller that has been well regarded for controlling equipment. As the first product in the series, it launched the MPX1310
Improved motion processing performance
The MPX1310 greatly improves processing performance and achieves about 8x the MP3300 CPU-301 ratio. It also has two lines of the high-speed motion network MECHATROLINK-4, enabling synchronization control of servo drives with up to 128 axes. In addition, it adopted multi-scanning, making it possible to distribute “high-speed control axes” as well as “low-speed control axes” synchronously, thereby contributing to further improvement of equipment performance.
User application compatibility with MP2000 / MP3000 series
The existing MP2000 / MP3000 series user applications are also compatible with the MPX1310. Also, MECHATROLINK communication can be switched to MECHATROLINK-III and easily replaced from MP3000 series.
Support for SLIO I/O series
The MPX1310 supports a wide range of SLIO I/O that can be directly attached to the device to build a versatile system