Omron NX1P machine automation controller

Omron’s NX1P machine automation controller is equipped with technology to meet the demand for efficient production of high-quality products in small to midsize production machines.

Based on Omron’s Sysmac (System for Machine Automation Control) platform, the NX1P machine controller features advanced motion control, with built-in EtherNet/IP and EtherCAT ports. With an EtherCat real-time field network, users can connect up to eight servos, I/O devices, vision systems and other devices using a single cable, thus reducing wiring work, while the EtherNet/IP port is utilised to share data with a host PC, other controllers or the internet. The IO-Link master unit also makes monitoring machine information possible.

NX1P increases machine speed and precision by controlling up to four synchronised axes, giving functionality like electronic gear/cam and linear/circular interpolation. It is battery-free to reduce machine maintenance and features an SD memory card slot to restore, back up and verify data in the controller. Now with one or two built-in option boards, there is no need to increase the size of the control panel for adding serial and analog communication.

These features, together with a fast execution time of 3.3 ns, make the NX1P an easy-to-use, high-performance compact controller.