Servo Motor

AC SERVO MOTOR

Precision, Speed, Accuracy, Throughput and Analytical functions are the design target of every control system. 





Servo motor is an electric motor designed for precision purposes most especially for position, velocity and torque control capability which makes motion/movement more accurate.

Servo motor's design unlike other synchronous motor takes advantage of feedback feature to deliver accurate motion as profiled in the program software.

Like all other motors, servo motor consist of Rotor and Stator but in addition has encoder/resolver as the feedback component while some are with or without brake system depending on applications


Other electric motor may be started directly by applying the voltage using some forms of switching devices such as contactor or switches while others may be powered with frequency inverters where there may be need for operation speed to be regulated but servo motor does not follow suit. It is being power by Servo driver or servo drive. The driver/drive contain CPU which need to be programmed with the specific application profile of the function that the motor attached to it will perform.
The Drive exchange instruction/command with the main PLC of the machine in other to command when needed. 


The servo drive may be program to provide index or step motion after the press of a push button or when a sensor senses a displacement or at the expiration of a timing sequence or following a looping operation. The drive produces pulse to provide frequency, angular or velocity control.


Servo drive contains the following contact or ports;
POWER supply voltage
IO/ANALOG external command
FEEDBACK/ENCODER
SERIAL/IP for programming
PLC interface
24V enable input supply
MOTOR TEMPERATURE
BRAKE 
MOTOR

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