Since 1987, Animatics has been designing, manufacturing and marketing motion control products, bringing total automation solutions to numerous industries, including but not limited to semiconductor, defense, automotive, aerospace, biomedical, textile, security, marine sciences, packaging and many more.

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When you need an innovative solution, you need Animatics, offering the most creative and complete answer to your motion control questions. Animatics’ SmartMotor™ is a prime example. Shortly after its introduction, Animatics and the SmartMotor™ won Product of the Year Awards and recognition from Electronic Products, Design News, Product Design and Development, Inc. Magazine and more.

Along with Animatics’ new Class 5 product line with five times faster processing speed of traditional integrated servos, the Contronic communication option will revolutionize the industry.

Animatics success is due to their unique approach to integrated motion controls and amplifiers: fully digital systems requiring no physical adjustments. This means maximum MTBF, greater durability and serviceability, reduced development time and reduced cost.

Animatics’ Headquarters is located in the heart of Silicon Valley, with international offices in Germany and Japan,  Animatics has sales, support and service locations anywhere on the planet. 

Combitronic: High Speed Transparent Communication Protocol Over CAN bus

Animatics Corporation has introduced a significant advancement in Integrated Motor Technology. Combitronic™ is a protocol that operates over a standard “CAN” (Controller Area Network) interface. It may coexist with either CANopen or DeviceNet protocols at the same time. Unlike these common protocols however, Combitronic™ requires no single dedicated master to operate. Each Integrated Servo connected to the same network communicates on an equal footing, sharing all information, and therefore, sharing all processing resources. Combitronic communications operate over a standard “CAN” interface, the same basic hardware used in most automobiles as well as in familiar industrial networks such as CANopen and DeviceNet. Unlike these common control networks, however, Combitronic has no master or slave.

An array of Animatics SmartMotor servos become one giant parallel-processing system when equipped with the Combitronic™ interface. This powerful technological advancement provides the joint benefits of centralized and distributed control while eliminating their respective historical drawbacks, opening up the possibility to either:

Eliminate PLCs from machine designs
or
Enhancing the performance of existing PLCs by unburdening it from specific tasks

The optional Combitronic™ technology allows any motor’s program to read from, write to, or control any other motor simply by tagging a local variable or command with the other motor’s CAN address. All SmartMotor™ units become one multi-tasking, data-sharing system without writing a single line of communications code or requiring detailed knowledge of the CAN protocol. The only prerequisite is to have matched baud rates and unique addresses