Plant Components And Automation Levels - Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 System Manual

Advantages and customer benefits
The use of SIMATIC Drive Controllers offers the following advantages:
• Only one device for standard, safety and comprehensive Motion Control automation
including automatic speed control
• Comprehensive range of interfaces, integrated bottom to top performance range
• Onboard technology I/Os save on additional hardware
• Eight digital outputs configurable as high-speed outputs; for ultra-short output delays and
maximum switching accuracy
• Simple handling with lower cabling and installation costs
• Simple configuration in the STEP 7 hardware configuration
• Simple and efficient commissioning and optimization of drives using the engineering tool
SINAMICS Startdrive in the TIA Portal
• Automatic alignment of the technological variables via the technology objects between
controller and drive; reduced engineering, commissioning and service times
• Central data management with a memory card (SIMATIC Memory Card) for controller and
drive
• Central license handling in the TIA Portal for CPU and SINAMICS Integrated
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Plant components and automation levels

Plant components and automation levels
SIMATIC Drive Controller are used in particular in production automation and Motion Control
applications for smaller to high-end machines. The combination of SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU and
integrated SINAMICS S120 automatic speed control offers powerful and flexible automation
solutions that cover all ranges of Motion Control applications:
• The process signals are connected to the central master computer via fieldbus.
• The SIMATIC Drive Controller is integrated consistently in the various automation levels
through communication standards.
• The SIMATIC Drive Controller controls SINAMICS Integrated over the integrated drive and
the axis group over the comprehensive range of SINAMICS S120 power units (Line
Modules and Motor Modules).
• Motors with a DRIVE-CLiQ interface facilitate commissioning and diagnostics.
• You connect motors without a DRIVE-CLiQ interface, for example external motors or
motors for retrofit applications, over Sensor Modules Cabinet-Mounted (SMC) or Sensor
Modules External (SME). Terminal Modules (TM) are terminal expansions over DRIVE-CLiQ
– for example for drive digital or analog inputs and outputs.
• The F-CPU integrated in the SIMATIC Drive Controller ensure failsafe processes.
SIMATIC Drive Controller
System Manual, 11/2023, A5E46600094-AD
5.1 What is the SIMATIC Drive Controller?
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