Use Of The Ax8911 With A Fail-Safe User Program; Fig. 7 Add New Item; Fig. 8 Target System Ax8911 - Beckhoff AX8-1 Series Documentation

Twinsafe drive option

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5.3.3

Use of the AX8911 with a fail-safe user program

Target system

For the use of the user-specific functions in the AX8911, a safety project is created in TwinCAT and the

AX8911 or the axis module is selected as the target system.

A safety project is added by right-clicking on the safety node and selecting Add new item...

Fig. 7: Add new item

The target system can be selected by double-clicking on the subentry Target System. The AX891x is

selected here in the drop-down list and linked with the axis module using the

button.

Fig. 8: Target system AX8911

In order to be able to use the inputs and outputs of the AX8911, an alias device AX891x (Safe Drive Module)

must be added in the safety application and set to local under Linking Mode.

Version: 1.0.0

AX8911 - TwinSAFE Drive Option

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