Aerotech Automation1 FLEX Distributed Amplifier Multi-Axis Servo Control System

Want a sleeker, more innovative design for your Aerotech custom-engineered

motion system? Add Automation1 FLEX, which reduces cabling by distributing

up to four axes modules on your mechanical stages.

Key Features

• Daisy-chain signals to minimize cable management

• Field-mounted axes modules reduce cabinet space

• Centralized flex controller connects to 4 axis modules

• Axes modules include power amplifiers & feedback signal processing

• Low-latency serialized axis feedback

• High-flex glass optical fiber cables

• Works with encoder-based position synchronized output (PSO)

Control Without Compromise

Want a sleeker, more innovative design for your Aerotech custom-engineered

motion system? Add Automation1 FLEX, which reduces cabling by placing up

to four axes modules on your mechanical stages. These modules include your

power amplifier and axis feedback signal, enabling complete serialization of

your power supplies and axis feedback for a multi-axis custom motion system.

The axis feedback runs over the durable high-flex glass optical fiber Hyperwire

FLEX network. The protocol enables a low latency, high-speed path that

enables encoder-based PSO over a serialized feedback network.

The FLEX control system requires only a single panel-mounted controller,

enabling smaller control panels and more elegant, compact machine designs.

FLEX stands out in cleanroom applications, since fewer cables produce fewer

particulates.

Key Applications

The FLEX is a part of the user-friendly Automation1 motion control platform,

which includes the following:

• Development Software

• Controls

• Motor Drives

• Fiber-Optic HyperWire® Communication Bus

• Cleaner and Sleeker Design

Hyperwire FLEX delivers motion control to customers cleaner than ever before.

The high-flex design separates the amplifier from the controller, enabling you

to daisy chain the stage amplifiers together. This reduces drag and cable

management under a new and novel low-latency design. The Hyperwire FLEX

delivers key features including real-time PSO handling. Hyperwire FLEX is

perfect for gantry designs and systems with up to 4 axes of motion.

Hyperwire FLEX’s compact drive and cabling design makes it perfect for any

system design concerned about cabinet space, cable drag, or particulate

generation.

Move With Confidence

Hyperwire FLEX cabling offers a durable low-latency cabling system with a

30mm bend radius. With Hyperwire FLEX’s new technology, the cables in

your systems can be serialized: cleaning up your design while still achieving

the high-speed and low latency standard in Aerotech products.

Cleaning up your cable design improves your mechanics further, reducing

both cable drag and particulate generation.

Automation1 FLEX’s 4 axis controller design also reduces your cabinet space,

giving you room to add to your design or reduce system footprint.