ABB Offers Two New Robot Controllers to Speed Performance, Provide Scalability
ABB (Auburn Hills, MI) has announced it’s adding two new controllers that offer energy savings of up to 20 percent, built-in digital connectivity, and 1,000+ additional functions to meet changing requirements.
Posted: January 6, 2022
The new E10 and V250XT belong to ABB’s family of OmniCore™ controllers and can be used in various industries, from electronics assembly to automotive, logistics, and general manufacturing.
The two controllers consume up to 20 percent less energy compared to ABB’s previous IRC5 controllers due to energy-saving power re-generation technology and brake energy recovery, enabling manufacturers to cut their energy costs.
The controllers offer increased scalability through the inclusion of over 1,000 hardware and software functions encompassing areas such as programming, offline commissioning and simulation, maintenance, vision, and safety. The controllers also feature built-in connectivity to ABB Ability™ Connected Services cloud-based service suite for robots, offering new opportunities for improving performance through enhanced predictive maintenance and lifecycle management.
The E10 controller is designed to power ABB’s SCARA robots and articulated robots with payloads of up to 11 kg, such as the IRB 920T and IRB 1300.
The controllers include ABB’s TrueMove and QuickMove motion control technology to provide high speed, position repeatability, and path accuracy. Consequently, ABB robots can operate up to 25 percent faster than their predecessors. Both controllers are used with ABB’s FlexPendant hand-held controller.
ABB is also introducing its IoT Gateway open automation software for OmniCore. IoT Gateway makes it possible to achieve joined-up production by enabling the transmission of data from the factory floor, machine to machine (M2M), robots to other machines, and robots to sensors, to the MES/ERP system, or to the cloud.
“The growing demands of the industry for quicker, more diverse production and greater responsiveness to changing market conditions calls for solution that bring new levels of speed, accuracy, and flexibility,” said Antti Matinlauri, head of product management for ABB Robotics. “As part of ABB’s OmniCore controller family, the E10 and V250XT provide manufacturers with an expanded range of possibilities, enabling them to maximize their productivity and meet changing demands with minimum downtime.”
ABB supplies robotics and machine automation.
