On December 22, 2023, the 2023 China Motion Control/Direct Drive Technology Industry Development Summit Forum and award Ceremony sponsored by China Transmission Network was held in Shenzhen Hyatt Hotel. As a well-known enterprise in the industrial control industry, STEP was invited to attend this conference to discuss the topics of industrial transformation, integration and innovation with the industry.
At the same time, STEP also won the CMCD2023 User Satisfaction Brand Award in the field of motion control; Its product strength has also been recognized, the SC50 motion control platform was awarded the CMCD2023 innovative product in the field of motion control, and the Ω6 series direct drive servo drive was awarded the CDDIA 2023 most competitive innovative product in the field of direct drive. In addition, STEP subsidiary Mountain Smart Control also won the CMCD 2023 most competitive brand in the field of motion control.
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The theme of this conference is "Resilience Growth, 2023 Forge ahead", which is simple and comprehensive and profound. In the past year, the economic recovery of the industrial control industry is less than expected and the overall performance of downstream demand is weak, although it is undergoing the test of the great waves, but it is also facing the new opportunity to "cultivate internal skills" and achieve the growth of the trend, especially in the domestic high-end replacement.
In 2023, STEP motion control business focuses on innovation and breakthrough, injecting strong impetus for development, on the one hand, continue to promote business integration, control layer products as the center, enhance the coupling ability with other products, and create differentiated intelligent manufacturing overall solutions for customers; On the other hand, following the refined product ideas, temper the superior product performance, iterate on the SC series PAC high-level motion controller, dispensing control system and other products, and make new progress in the direct drive motor, 3C, lithium, photovoltaic, laser welding, printing, packaging and other industry applications.
Step Ω6 series servo products with German drive control core technology, integration of Chinese factory intelligent manufacturing concept, providing powerful control performance, multiple protection, unique functions and excellent industrial design. After 4 years of grinding, adhering to the strategic idea of standard import and alternative import, the key performance indicators are comparable to international well-known brands to meet the needs of customers with high performance and no debugging.
The award-winning Ω6 series direct drive servo drive is a "polygon warrior" that can easily control linear motors, DDR, voice coil motors, and linear gantry direct drive mechanisms, while breaking the table in performance: Current ring refresh frequency 1MHz, encoder resolution support 32bit encoder resolution, high-speed IO response time 1us to easily cope with high-precision fly shot and probe, 115% load continuous overload, 350% load instant load can meet the direct drive frequent start and stop/acceleration and deceleration. At the same time, it also has the features of one-button self-tuning, online gain adjustment, double drive of gantry, high-precision positioning compensation, and automatic hall exchange equalization.
SC50 is a new member of STEPSC series. It is a new generation of high-performance motion control platform based on domestic 4-core 64-bit CPU and Linux real-time system. It integrates motion control, vision, AI, EtherCAT, unique STEP LocalBus and other technologies. Through the internal scheduling of the same CPU, the display, vision and control software can be efficiently coordinated.
In order to make the industry better understand SC50, Zhang Rensu, product manager of STEP Operations Control Division, delivered a keynote speech entitled "Integration is not addition, nor is it more than technology" at this forum, introducing the product development ideas and user value of SC50.
Zhang Rensu pointed out that the operation control industry has transitioned from single product competition to product portfolio competition. Integration into a form of product portfolio, a simple stack of hardware, superposition technology may not be successful, but the need for in-depth scenes, deep cooperation, the solution is differentiated, competitive, in order to stand out in the internal tide.
STEP has more than 20 years of experience in the development of underlying drivers and algorithms in FPGA and ARM, and it is also used in PC-Based application software modules. Therefore, SC50 provides diversified and easy to operate software modules and powerful software technologies to help customers achieve higher application value and improve development efficiency.
For example, the vision module has embedded development capability; In the combination of graphics analysis and motion control, CutCAM graphics processing components can provide path planning and tool switching, automatic layout and avoidance, 3D stitching and preview, digital twin and other functions; ADTMotionPro RTCP debugging component, through the scene customized calibration design, to achieve higher precision tool tip following; In addition, it also integrates STEPVDStudio desktop dispensing control, ARStudio SCARA scripting, Ω Master servo debugging and other components, as well as more responsive command cycle & control cycle, continuous trajectory control, corner speed and trajectory control, trajectory and energy uniform control and other technologies.
Zhang Rensu further introduced that based on the development of operations control industry solutions based on the platform, the delivery efficiency is much higher than the split solution, which can simultaneously meet the needs of visual positioning, detection, complex process processing, multi-axis collaborative control and other indicators, so that the high-speed, high-precision and intelligent processing of the equipment can be further improved, and truly reach the level of high-end intelligent manufacturing. The product has been successfully used in laser cutting, visual dispensing, CNC and other industrial control industries.
This time, it won the annual brand and product awards and won the industry authority recognition, once again showing STEP's outstanding achievements in market leadership, brand leadership, technological innovation and other aspects, highlighting the deep strength of the mainstay in the motion control industry. In the future, STEP will adhere to productionism and differential innovation, pay attention to user needs, constantly update technology, improve product matrix, with endless new products, explosive products, to achieve the overall jump in brand power, and promote the high-end, intelligent and green development of intelligent manufacturing.