Transport System Design; Overview; Design Guidelines; Magnemover Lite System, Single Array Glide Puck - Rockwell Automation MagneMotion MagneMover LITE Original Instructions Manual

Design Guidelines

Transport System Design

Transport System Design

Overview

This section describes some of the basic considerations for designing a track system for a
MagneMover LITE transport system. The track system includes the guideway, the guideway
supports, the MM LITE motors, the vehicles (pucks) with magnet arrays, and the mechanism
for mounting the motors to the guideway (see
guidelines).
One advantage of the MagneMover LITE system is that it is possible to have vehicles move at
different rates of speed in the same direction, or in opposite directions without a collision. The
control software makes sure that the minimum distance between vehicles (pucks) when not
moving is 3 mm [0.12 in] (see
Motor
Figure 3-6: MagneMover LITE System, Single Array Glide Puck
Design Guidelines
Use standard engineering practices to reduce torque, vibration, and other stresses on the
guideway and other parts of the system. Factors specific to MagneMover LITE transport sys-
tems to consider include:
• Vehicles (pucks) are not held in place if power is removed.
• There is no magnetic attractive force between the magnet array and the MagneMover
LITE motors.
• The vehicle gap (distance between magnet array and motor, see
maintained throughout the system.
• Keep the downstream gap (distance between motors, see
ble to make sure that there is enough thrust to move the vehicle over the gap.
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Motor Topology on page
Rockwell Automation Publication MMI-UM002F-EN-P - October 2022
Transport System Layout on page 74
317).
Figure
for layout
Vehicle
Magnet Array
Integral Rail
Motor Mount
(not visible)
Figure 3-25) must be
3-7) as small as possi-
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