New CMMT-AS-S3 servo drive
Ben Lloyd, Product Manager for Electric Automation at Festo, explains: “The CMMT-AS-S3 delivers the power and precision Festo customers expect, but with extended and integrated safety features. We’ve packaged everything into a compact servo drive that requires no additional wiring or modules, delivering space and cost savings and reducing complexity while meeting the highest standards of functional safety.”
The CMMT-AS-S3 servo drive offers advanced safety and performance in applications ranging from 300 W to 12 kW. Enabling users to achieve up to PLe, SIL3, Category 3 & 4 safety levels, the new servo drive features Safe Torque Off (STO), Safe Brake Control (SBC), Safe Stop 1 and 2 (SS1 and SS2) and Safe Operating Stop (SOS), as well as Safe Maximum Speed (SMS), and Safely Limited Speed (SLS). The CMMT-AS-S3 can be used to achieve extended safety in linear or rotational motion applications in conjunction with all Festo mechanics.
Software engineers benefit from seamless integration with the Festo overall pneumatic and electric automation portfolio with multi-protocol support for common Ethernet-based fieldbuses, such as EtherCAT, EtherNet/IP™, PROFINET and ModbusTCP,
Standard safety parameters can be set without using software, but programming the CMMT-AS-S3 via the Festo Automation Suite (FAS) saves time and offers guidance at every stage. An intuitive graphical interface makes it simple to achieve safety setup, validation, commissioning, programming, diagnostics, and firmware updates. FAS saves commissioning time by offering realistic preset values and guided validation of safety functions. It also supports I/O and fieldbus configuration and the ability to generate validation reports.
About Festo
Festo is a leading international supplier of automation technology with a turnover in 2024 of around €3.45 billion. Festo employs over 20,000 people worldwide and is a proven innovator and problem solver in pneumatic and electrical automation, where it is the performance leader. Festo offers around 36,000 pneumatic and electric products in hundreds of thousands of variants for factory and process automation technology, many of which can be tailored to specific customer needs. Sustainability, reducing its CO2 footprint, digital learning, innovation, performance and speed are the key drivers for the company's future. Festo GB operates as a carbon neutral organisation and uses the PAS 2060 standard externally audited by NQA to validate this claim to customers, employees and other stakeholders.
Festo Industrial Automation's innovative strength is demonstrated through the launch of around 100 new products every year. The company invests over 8.5% of its turnover in R&D, resulting in over 2,600 patents held worldwide. For more information about the company's products and UK / Irish services, please visit: www.festo.com/gb and www.festo.com/ie
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