In the industrial field with each passing day, the rapid iteration of technology, the continuous innovation of the scene, so that the user needs change more frequently and complex, only through the continuous mining of customer pain points, and the use of innovative technology to create new products, new solutions, to help customers effectively solve practical problems. Therefore, meeting the need to keep pace with The Times is the fundamental driving force for innovation in the industrial sector.

Since its establishment 187 years ago, innovation has been integrated into the “blood” of Schneider Electric, and continuous innovation oriented by customer demand has become an important principle that Schneider Electric has always adhered to, both globally and in China. Since its establishment in China 36 years ago, Schneider Electric has continuously increased its investment in China, continuously strengthened the construction of “China Center”, established an agile innovation mechanism covering research and development, industrial chain, cooperation partners, etc., so as to get closer to the Chinese market faster and better, meet the needs of local users, and gradually become original in China, and feed the world with “Chinese wisdom”.

Based on local to meet the real needs of more industries

With the establishment of the Chinese Automation R&D Center in Wuxi, Schneider Electric’s localization and innovation capability in the field of industrial automation has been upgraded to further accelerate the implementation of more product solutions. The recently released Lexium 18 series servo is one of the typical representatives.

With the further improvement of industrial automation and the in-depth promotion of intelligent manufacturing, more and more industries need to use servo system in production and manufacturing to achieve the purpose of high quality and high precision product manufacturing, which also promotes the servo system towards high performance, networking, intelligent, integrated direction of evolution.

Schneider Electric’s new Lexium 18 series servo integrates advantages such as superior product performance, cost-effective, convenient operation, stable and reliable. When combined with BCH18 servo motor, it achieves an optimized system design and flexible control mode to achieve stable, reliable, convenient and easy to use, and cost-effective, helping customers reduce the comprehensive cost of life cycle. Create more value. Schneider Electric’s professional technical support and services run throughout the Lexium18 product lifecycle to fully meet the motion control needs of customers in industries such as electronic, electrical, semiconductor, material processing and packaging.

It is worth mentioning that the new generation Lexium 18 series servo will not only realize localized production, but also optimize and iterate the algorithm, structure, motor, control performance and other aspects based on the original prototype design of the original product, so as to better fit the usage habits of Chinese users. This is the key to the Lexium 18 series servo to “outdo the best”.

Multiple R&D innovations make complexity easy to use

As a global expert in servo control, Schneider Electric has rich experience in product innovation and application practice. The new Lexium 18 series servo increases the bandwidth of the control ring by 40% and optimizes the motor structure design (groove torque <1.5% and motor body length reduced by 25%). The series supports internal script programming and flexible motion task sequence, 16 bit high-precision analog input and 2US-level capture signal trigger preset motion tasks, and can receive up to 8MHz pulse instructions, compatible with mainstream PLC and board card, bring faster response, effectively reduce the system cost and volume, improve the overall performance and reliability of products.

On this basis, in the process of serving global customers, Schneider Electric has found that Chinese customers have higher requirements for product usability than European and American customers, that is, they need to complete the parameter setting of servo system in a shorter time, and can automatically realize system optimization, simplify the complexity of maintenance, so as to match the production system efficiently and maintain stable performance. This means that the servo system needs to have more powerful parameter self-tuning and fault self-diagnosis functions, so the product algorithm needs to be greatly optimized and improved, and many field tests. Schneider Electric has responded by keeping complexity to itself and giving ease of use back to its customers.

To this end, Schneider Electric assembled a fully localized team of R&D and testing experts, including three Edison experts, who drew on global expertise to practice agile innovation strategies, reducing the Lexium 18 series’ lead time from design requirements to market from an industry average of 14-15 months to just 11 months.

In terms of algorithm evolution, Schneider Electric introduced a subversive innovation to the Lexium 18 series, based on a long history of servo system algorithms and application data from previous generation products, to provide an adaptive algorithm that greatly simplifies PID parameter setting based on different connection models, loads and usage scenarios, thus significantly reducing the field commissioning time by 2/3. Combined with Schneider Electric’s unified SoMove debugging software, it can be further optimized to help customers quickly achieve on-line systems.

Meanwhile, the Lexium 18 series enhances real-time automatic vibration suppression to maintain stability over mechanical equipment and reduce the cost and complexity of equipment maintenance. In terms of product robustness, in order to adapt to customers’ different field environments, Schneider Electric brings reliable EMC performance with higher testing standards and 100% coverage of patch components with triple-proof coatings. Currently, the product has been tested on more than 20 key applications in different industries and has won customer recognition in terms of performance and ease of use.