Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 System Manual page 70

System overview
5.1 What is the SIMATIC Drive Controller?
You can find additional information in the S7-1500T Motion Control function manuals
(https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/ww/en/view/109751049).
Note
Computing performance at the drive cannot be increased with a SIMOTION CX32-2
Controller Extension as with SIMOTION D4x5-2.
Scaling with modularization
Modular machine concepts offer many advantages, such as standardization, flexibility and
scalability. A production line that consists of multiple machine modules each with a controller
and drives requires synchronization of the drives.
SIMATIC Drive Controller have the cross-PLC synchronous operation functionality. Cross-PLC
synchronous operation allows you to implement synchronous operation across devices. This
enables you to:
• Implement more axes by distributing them across multiple controllers
• Implement modular machine concepts
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