GE Fanuc PACMotion Certified

By DE Editors

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms (Charlottesville, VA), a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, received certificates of compliance from PLCopen, the independent organization that focuses on the harmonization of control programming around IEC 61131-2.

PLCopen represents various industries and seeks to drive more efficiency in industrial automation through creating specifications and implementations in engineering programming language. GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms fulfilled the requirements in PLCopen Compliance Procedure for Motion Control Library V. 1.1 and PLCopen Compliance Procedure for Motion Control Part 2 – Extensions, Version 1.0.

PACMotion allows engineering communities already familiar with these IEC languages to quickly integrate motion control into existing programs, and to develop new programs quickly and efficiently.

PACMotion uses GE Fanuc Intelligent Platform’s Proficy Machine Edition, an integrated programming environment for machine logic, motion, and HMI — all in a single program. A single programming environment allows developers to use common tag databases, common scripting, and eliminate all synchronization logic between separate programs. Many new features, such as motion function blocks, have been added to Proficy Machine Edition supporting PACMotion.

PACMotion serves the needs of high-speed machines with a high number of synchronized axes. Industries needing this feature would include packaging, assembly, woodworking, and printing.

For more information on PACMotion, contact GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.