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Baldor Electric Company

Baldor provides a wide range of motion control solutions for the automation industry including PCI format, Rack mount, panel mount, real-time Ethernet controllers and programmable intelligent drives, providing solutions up to 16 axes of coordinated motion with more independent axes where needed. The NextMove family of multitasking machine controllers can control stepper, analogue axes and real-time Ethernet control with NextMove e100. Our Ethernet Powerlink series including NextMove e100, MicroFlex e100 and MotiFlex e100 Drives provides designers with real-time Ethernet solutions. In addition the e100 drives are programmable I Mint multitasking. motion controllers are available with digital and analog I/O for complete machine control. The CAN bus interface can be used to expand the I/O configuration.

Motion control systems can be up and running quickly thanks to Baldor's Mint programming language. Mint is a versatile, yet easy to use, Basic like programming language. A wide range of programmable moves are supported including trapezoidal, S-ramp, linear and circular interpolation, helical interpolation, electronic CAM, gearbox and flying shear. User defined profiles can be added using the supplied embedded 'C' libraries. Mint also supports full control of the I/O and communications back to a host controller. Machine level networking and optional operator panel control can all be controlled under a single Mint application program.

The motion controllers are complemented by a complete range of servo drives, motors and accessories.