Device modules, Device module tags – Rockwell Automation 193 Drives and Motion Accelerator Toolkit Quick Start User Manual

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Logic Program Overview

Appendix A

Device Modules

Device modules contain all of the logic to control the essential functions required by the device. For example, an
Integrated Motion servo drive like the Kinetix 6500 requires logic (MSO and MSF instructions) to enable and/
or disable the servo drive. This logic reduces the programming effort required by most applications providing
more time for the proprietary logic needed for the application.

Typically, the device module consists of a physical drive, but could also consist of a virtual or feedback-only axis.
Device modules can also consist of multiple devices (for example, a drive) and perhaps a feedback device (for
example, a sensor).

Device Module Tags

The application and individual device modules interact with each other via device specific control tags that
include both command and status information. The control tags consist of these data types.

Device Tags

All of the data types listed above can be modified to fit specific needs of your application. However,
modifications to the data types could have an impact on the device module and/or other preprogrammed logic,
especially during import of additional device modules.

For example, the UDT_ServoCtrl data type that is used by the integrated motion drives (CIP Motion and sercos
interface based drives) consists of these tags.

Device Classifications

Covered Products

Data Type

PowerFlex drives

• PowerFlex 4-class drives, for example, 4, 40, 40P
• PowerFlex 7-class drives, for example, 70EC, 700VC
• PowerFlex 750-Series drives for example, 753, 755
• PowerFlex 520-Series drives for example, 525

Product specific add-on defined (AOI) data type:
PFlex_XXX_AOI
Where XXX refers to the specific PowerFlex drive

Kinetix 300 drives

Kinetix 300

User-defined type: UDT_K300_Ctrl

Sercos physical axis

• Kinetix 2000
• Kinetix 6000
• Kinetix 6000M
• Kinetix 6200
• Kinetix 7000