Controllers

Controllers

Controllers for servo motors

The range of servo controllers is specially designed for our toothed belt axes and spindle axes as well as for our electric cylinders – perfectly combined with engineering software and enhanced with complete safety solutions in the mechanical and drive systems. Together with our automation platform and other integrated motion control solutions, the servo drives provide a virtually unlimited spectrum of solutions for industrial automation tasks, supported with innovative software solutions for engineering and configuration. The variety of available field buses such as PROFINET, Ethernet/IP, EtherCAT®, Profibus, Modbus®, CANopen and DeviceNet® makes the servo controllers ideally suited for communication with almost all PLC controllers.

Controller for stepper motors

The stepper controller program offers a simple and cost-effective way to implement electrical movements; in particular, the OMS (Optimized Motion Series) makes moving and positioning easier than ever before – and much more cost-effective than conventional electrical solutions. All our stepper controllers offer the possibilities of being operated "open loop" and "closed loop", i.e. with encoder. This considerably increases performance and makes it possible to prevent step losses and compensate for contouring errors. Festo Stepper controllers use ServoLite technology based on sinusoidal signals, which enables much more precise and smooth control than the conventional microstepping method.
I/O, I/O-Link, Modbus®, CANopen and Profibus offer an ideal possibility to operate our stepper drives quickly and easily on any PLC controller.