Custom Servo Drives

ADVANCED Motion Controls has the capability to promptly develop and deliver specified products for OEMs with volume requests. While developing a custom servo drive for a customer, we work closely with them to give them a servo solution that does everything they need. This can include creating drives that have different connectors, shape, number of axes, and other features than our usual product offering.

It can start with a crazy idea, feature creep or near impossible specifications, but sometimes you just have to start over from scratch. Starting with a fresh design affords endless possibilities allowing the designer to expand capabilities beyond servo drive functions including full integration of peripheral components.

Non-Conventional Shape

Rather than try to fit a square peg into a round hole, why not find the peg that fits? Some motion control applications can be very limited on space for electronics, which means there might not be room for a standard servo drive.

This is where a custom servo drive can be essential. We have delivered all shapes of custom drives including round ones that were integrated onto the backs of motors.

It's not always a matter of changing a rectangle into a circle; Maybe you just need to reduce the width and can sacrifice a little length, or reduce the footprint and sacrifice height.

Multiple Axes

Individual servo drives are typically used to drive one motor and one motor only. However, many applications have multiple motors working together.

Rather than using multiple servo drives, you can get a custom multi-axis servo drive that can control more than one motor at once.

Multi-axis designs are smaller than the sum of their parts because they reduce redundant functions and components and take advantage of board layout.

Integrated Drives and Controls

We pride ourselves on manufacturing servo drives and controls, but how about both at once? Instead of using wires and cables  to connect servo drives to a controller, drives and controls can be put together and packaged as a single unit.

Integrated solutions greatly simplify supply management, reduce assembly time, save space, and increase reliability. In addition, like a multi-axis servo drive, this can consolidate control of multiple servo axes to a single unit.

Specialized Network Options

At present, ADVANCED Motion Controls already has standard products available that support EtherCAT, CANopen, Ethernet/IP, Ethernet TCP, Ethernet POWERLINK, Modbus RTU/TCP, and RS-485/232. Any of these networks can be applied to a custom product. However, we have the technology and experience to create custom drives for more networks such as Profinet RT, Profinet IRT, Profibus, and SERCOS III. These customs can even pave the way for expanding our standard network offering.

Environmental Considerations

While we have an Extended Environment drive line, sometimes you need something special. All of our extended environment features and modifications can be applied to custom products, sometimes to an even greater extent. For example, we've made custom servo drives that can operate safely in ambient temperatures higher than 100°C and at crushing depths 6000 m below the surface of the ocean. These exceed the capabilities of our standard extended environment products.

Unique Possibilities

You need a drive with more power than our standard offering? Custom. You need a drive with more I/O ports than usual? Custom. You need a drive with special safety features? Custom. You need a drive that shares it's frame with the device? Custom. Want a magnetic encoder or other contactless feedback? Custom.

If you can imagine it, we can probably make it. At ADVANCED Motion Controls, we believe that everything is possible.