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Electric Drives and Controls - Product Catalog
NYCe 4000 - System benefits
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Shorten time to market
A market introduction moment is always a critical item. Being too late on the market with a new product always has consequences for (not) reaching target markets. Therefore it is very important that during the development of a new machine and the production of these machines your selected control system supports you in order to reach these targets.
Bosch Rexroth and the NYCe 4000 product help you in shorten your time to market:
Design support
Our mechatronic experts can assist you expert during the design phase of your new machine. With our know-how on mechatronics we will assist you in optimisation of your of your prototype machine in an early development stage. This saves valuable time and results in a better performing machine. ↑
Implementation support
Our motion engineers are available for implementation support. With their in-depth knowledge about NYCe 4000 you can be sure to use it in the most optimal way in your application. ↑
Training
Bosch Rexroth provides standard training classes for the NYCe 4000 product line. These training classes are held in the Competence Centre, or at customer site. This is the most effective way of getting familiar with all features of the NYCe 4000 system, for development support, (on-site) training. ↑
Please have a look at the Training Program 2009
Headstart
Due to specific machine requirements it was sometimes necessary in the past to design your own motion control platform. Due to the functionality and flexibility of NYCe 4000 this is no longer needed. This saves you a huge amount of time and money since you not only save the development of your own control platform but also the product life-cycle-management of it! ↑
Simulation
NYCe 4000 includes a simulation environment. This is used by your application software developers to test their application packages without having a control system or machine connected. They simply test the application on their development PC in a very early stage, when mostly the new machine is not even available. ↑
Reduce overall machine cost
During designing the NYCe 4000 system, we did not just look at the bare cost of the control system, but also at the total machine cost. For our customers, the machine builders, the overall machine cost is very important in a highly competitive market. The control system architecture introduces a different way of integrating control in a machine, which is an enabler for cost reductions. ↑
Modular machines
Imagine you are building a compact machine composed of several functional sub-modules and a number of options. You also need to deliver to fast to your customer. This result in a tremendous pressure on your machine assembly resources because every machine is different and has to be build and tested in a very short time frame. Now imagine that you are able to define full-functioning modules, each with their own compact control. They can be fully tested by the manufacturer and put on assembly stock. As soon as you receive a customer order you can assemble a machine very fast since all modules that are needed in the machine are already fully tested including the control. Your assembly and test time can be reduced significantly! Since NYCe 4000 is a very compact control platform it is very well suited to fit into small function modules of your machine, in this way enabling modular machine concepts. ↑
Integrated connectivity panel
Connectivity and cabling is a machine can be real cost factor. Mostly you see cabling from all devices in a machine (motors, encoders, sensors, relais, switches and so on) being connected to the control platform. In most control system solutions not only external drives are needed, but also an I/O distribution board is needed. The reason for this distribution board is the fact that connectors in a machine are always specific and can therefore never be plugged directly onto the control system or on the drive. It will be clear that you also need industrial cabling between the control system and the drive, and between the control system and the distribution board. The new solution is to use the NYCe 4000 with the drives integrated, and with a customer or machine specific distribution board integrated. It saves costs due to less cabling, take up less space and improves the machine uptime by removing part of the vulnerable cabling in a machine. ↑
Increases machine performance
This is in many cases the main argument for started a new machine family line. Faster machines imply a need for better control algorithms, to compensate for mechanical shortcomings. For this reason we have very fast control loops in the NYCe 4000 system. Position loops can be as fast as 32 kHz (31.25 µseconds). The control algorithms are very advanced with feed forward control, filters and notches that can all be set by the user. When required in an application, this can even be changed done during movements. Excellent tuning software, specific control algorithms and the possibility for including your own developed control algorithms make sure that even the most demanding applications can count on an the most optimal control algorithms. When a machine gets faster, not only the motion part needs to be faster and more accurate, also the interaction between motion and I/O in the machine needs to be faster. For this reason we integrated functions that directly link motion and I/O action. These functions are latches, markers and event handling. As an example, a marker output that needs to be set when an axis is on a specified position does this with a very high precision because this functionality is integrated in the drive boards’ programmable logic. Fast responding free programmable applications can also be integrated inside the NYCe 4000 system. Using the sequencer, running on the motion control unit, C-applications can be downloaded to the NYCe 4000 and run in real-time mode directly on the NYCe 4000. ↑
Improve the machine uptime
A machine is expected to run always, without getting into an error state. Just in case this still might happen, it is of utmost importance that it is up-and-running again as soon as possible. In NYCe 4000 we therefore added several feature to enable you to improve your machine uptime. Preventing that a machine goes into error, starts with continuous monitoring of machine date. NYCe 4000 supports several levels of monitoring. The standard monitoring is based on asked for a software trigger (event) when a certain signal is given by your machine. This signal can be a digital input or an analog input value that reached a predefined limit, or a temperature in the system. The system also generated automatically events on motion related exceptions like too large position error or reaching an end-switch and many more. All exceptional situation can be connected to a user-configurable control system response.
Another monitoring feature is the sample-synchronized logging of data, in this way you can e.g. log several axes positions and when you detect small deviations to the expected value you might decide to do some preventive maintenance. Using these features, the user can avoid machine stops by responding fast and correctly to exceptional situations. When a machine stops because a failure it is very important to have the system up-an-running again shortly. This requires fast diagnostics of the control system. This has been implemented on 2 levels: error reporting tells you the cause the error outside the control system (low servo power voltage or encoder cable break) or incase of an error inside the control system, the LED on the front side of the control system modules indicates the erroneous module. Once the error source has been determined, correcting of the error can be initiated. When this is an error in the NYCe 4000 system, swap defective module by a spare on. This can easily been done without removing any cabling and without setting jumpers or switches. Once the new module has been inserted the system automatically reconfigures and you will have the original software running automatically on the new modules. In this way the module exchange can be done fats with minimal risks. ↑
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