With great success, we carried out the replacement of two obsolete Allen Bradley 1395 DC drives and a resolver transducer, communicated over a ControlNet fiber-optic network, with current PowerFlex DC drives and an absolute rotary encoder based on EtherNet/IP DLR (Device Level Ring); which drive the DC motors of an AOD vessel tilt mechanism in a stainless-steel melt shop.
– Location: Ghent, Kentucky, USA.
– Final customer: NAS.
– Used technologies:
PLC Rockwell ControlLogix 5000.
Drives Allen Bradley 1395 DC and PowerFlex DC.
Redundant EtherNet/IP DLR network.
– Activities undertaken:
PLC programming.
Migration of obsolete drives.
New drives parametrization.
Industrial network configurations.
Supervision of electrical assembly.
Commissioning.