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Automation of the AKD Drive with a Siemens S7-1200 and S7-1500 PLC and Modbus TCP | 16 Mar 2015 | |

Automation of the AKD Drive with a Siemens S7-1200 and S7-1500 PLC and Modbus TCP

The following utility provides a connection between AKD servo drive (other than the Profinet drive) and Siemens SIMATIC S7-1200/S7-1500 programmable logic controllers (PLC) using Modbus TCP programmed in TIA V13.

The application contains the following functionality:

  • Software Enable/Disable
  • Emergency stop
  • Reset of drive faults
  • Jog
  • Home
  • Execution of a pre-defined motion task
  • Setup of motion tasks
  • Read motion tasks
  • Setting operation mode
  • Read and write access to the parameters

AKD - PLC connection

The axis control is done with one function block, which can be used as multi instance.

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Direct Parameter access

All accessible parameters on the AKD can be read or written with a second function block.

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For more information and source code, see the download here. The files were updated in December 2019 to add suppervision for rising system time.

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Martin Rupf