Fields Of Application; Application - Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 Manual

7 "Cam Disc" Technology Object

7.2 Fields of application

7.2 Fields of application
A cam disc is always used when a slave axis is to move in absolute position-based
synchronism to a master axis and there is no linear connection between the two
axes.
Note
In gearing there is linear connection between the master and the slave axis.
In a cam disc this kind of synchronism would be displayed by a straight line in
the cam disc editor. The increase of the straight line would represent the gear
factor.
7.3

Application

This cam disc technology object can be used for the following applications:

Moving along certain position or speed profiles during flying processing in a
running material line, for example, with a cross cutter.

Moving along simple motion paths with two to three axes in plane or space.
The motion rules of the individual axes are divided into independent cam discs.
A master axis controls the motion of the two to three slave axes via the cam
discs.

Control of the complete product cycle of a machine via curve synchronization
of all axes involved with a virtual axis as master axis.
TOs of S7-1500(T)
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