Trio Motion Technology

	CAMs allow users freedom to create their own motion profile dedicated to the application requirements. All Motion Coordinators have very powerful and flexible CAM commands which make possible applications that can be impossible to construct without these facilities. Motion Coordinators have a memory TABLE in which CAM profile shapes may be constructed. The size of the TABLE varies between 16000 points on the MC302X and 250,000 points on the MC224. The CAM profile shapes can be constructed offline, or built by the Motion Coordinator itself, or imported from programs such as Excel. Trio provides a very useful CAMGEN utility for helping with the construction of CAM profile shapes. Motion Coordinators provide two fundamental types of motion command for using the CAM profile shapes. These allow a CAM to be executed over a flexible timebase or as motion linked to another machine motion. The CAM shapes can be used in a very flexible way, for example they can be stretched as they are used, and the controller can choose to use just a portion of a larger shape. There are controls too to allow flexible repeating of CAM shapes. These controls allow profiles to be executed backwards and forwards to allow the Motion Coordinator to simulate mechanisms which can be run in either direction. There are also controls to allow the starting of CAM’s on a registration event or when a machine position is reached. For complex applications, multiple CAM shapes can be merged together in a seamless way.