During the machine build phase, Quin supplied a 16-axis SERVOnet Control System, including servo drives, motors and gearboxes. The equipment was installed in electrical cabinets by Quin and tested as a system before being shipped off to the machine builder. The completed system was tested against a Quin-prepared Test Specification before its final installation and commissioning at the customer’s site.

The application incorporates the following motion control principles:

• tension control (including web break and reel run-out detection)
• linear and non-linear position synchronisation including phase adjustment
• linear speed synchronisation
• high speed indexing using absolute and relative moves
• torque-limited absolute moves
• registration control
• digital control of pneumatics using software generated “cam switches”
• Data Highway communications to a PLC
• A modem in the electrical cabinet allows for remote diagnostics. It is possible to monitor graphically
  and simultaneously up to 4 parameters from any of the 16 axes, and data leading up to an event can
  be automatically logged for subsequent analysis.