Servo selection system

• US 9,213,326 B2
• Filed: 03/30/2012
• Issued: 12/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Matsumura, Hiroshi, Miyazaki, Tomohiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Ramesh
• Application Number:
  US13/701,212
• Publication Number:
  US 20130317633A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,355 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric

Abstract

A servo selection system includes a replacement-information display unit that displays at least a portion of replacement information corresponding to an input servo product before being replaced and a selected new-model servo product, and the replacement information includes a difference between a specification of the servo product before being replaced and a specification of the new-model servo product, and an operation guideline for replacing the servo product before being replaced with the selected new-model servo product.

Claims

1. A servo selection system for selecting a plurality of servo products including at least a servomotor and a servo amplifier constituting a servo system, the servo selection system comprising:

a conventional-model-name input unit to which a model name of a servo product before being replaced is input;

a model database in which a model name of a first servo product, a model name of a second servo product, and replacement information required for replacing the first servo product with the second servo product are associated with one another with respect to a plurality of the first servo products;

a new-model selection unit that selects a new-model servo product compatible with the input servo product before being replaced, based on the input model name of the servo product before being replaced and the model database;

a new-model-name display unit that displays a model name of the selected new-model servo product; and

a replacement-information display unit that displays at least a portion of the replacement information corresponding to the input servo product before being replaced and the selected new-model servo product, wherein

the replacement information includes

a difference between a specification of the servo product before being replaced and a specification of the selected new-model servo product, and

an operation guideline for replacing the servo product before being replaced with the selected new-model servo product.

2. The servo selection system according to claim 1, further comprising a function selection unit that selects a function that has been used in the servo product before being replaced, wherein

the new-model selection unit selects a servo product corresponding to the selected function as the compatible new-model servo product.