World class manufacturing machine upgrade solution for any old multi-axis motion systems and CNC machines, to bring your older machine up to date with modern manufacturing processes. Get rid of that old unsupported Heidenhain TNC or Fanauc with something a little less ‘last century’.

Flexible, High-Performance System Architecture
The A3200 SMC is a retrofit controller system capable of managing a network of up to 32 axes of coordinated motion without sacrificing performance. With a wide offering of drive hardware, including your existing servo and step drive amplifiers, each axis of motion can be either a servomotor, stepper motor, voice coil motor, galvanometer motor, or piezoelectric actuator. The controller is high performance — producing native trajectory rates of up to 48 kHz without sacrificing other performance criteria.

These Aerotech controller’s enable the system’s high performance because it manages a distributed control architecture. Whereas centralised control architectures close the servo and current loops on a central controller, the Automation 3200 platform closes the position, velocity, and current loops on each individual network drive (Ndrive), avoiding processing bottlenecks. The A3200 SMC uses a real-time operating system that runs with higher priority than Windows®. The PC executes programs and sends the position commands to the Ndrive via the IEEE-1394 (FireWire®) or HyperWire glass-optical-fiber high-speed serial bus.

A3200-iPC Industrial PC
The A3200 SMC is available pre-installed and optimized on the Aerotech A3200-iPC industrial PC. This PC is fully tested and optimized. The A3200-iPC is ready to work right out of the box, allowing fast integration of your value-added process.

Extended Architecture with Fieldbus Support
EtherCAT I/O and PROFINET I/O are each tightly integrated into the A3200 automation machine controller. With the simple addition of Hilscher PCIe card, either EtherCAT or PROFINET I/O devices can be configured and mapped with meaningful I/O tag names.

WAGO I/O is tightly integrated into the A3200 automation machine controller and devices can be connected to a PC via a standard Ethernet port. Modular devices can be stacked together as needed and can be configured and mapped with meaningful I/O tag names. These tags are directly available for use to extend control between the controller and other machine peripherals and hardware.

With a clear and easy to use operator HMI which can be configured with fully ISO G-Code compatible processing, together with the benefits of a Windows® platform, any old or unsupported CNC machine tool can be upgraded, increasing many production benefits to a manufacturing operation.