TECHNICAL NOTE
MOTION APPLICATION ENGINEERING GROUP
Yaskawa Electric America - 2121 Norman Drive South – Waukegan IL 60085
(800) YASKAWA - Fax (847) 887-7280
11/23/2005 11 of 11 eng/05.055/MCD
Programming Language Grid For Built In Functions
Ladder Based Motion
Text Based Motion
Programs
Function Block
Motion
Built in Function
Detail
Jogging possible possible* possible
Absolute or Relative
Indexing possible possible possible
Change final position
on the fly possible not possible possible
Linear interpolation possible possible not possible
Circular/Helical
interpolation possible possible not possible
Homing possible possible possible
Basic Camming possible not possible possible
Advanced Camming
(including
master/slave shift or
offset on the fly) possible not possible possible
Basic Gearing possible not possible possible
Advanced Gearing
with slave shift possible not possible possible
Customized scan-
based profiling possible not possible possible
Change Acc/Dec on
the fly possible not possible possible
Change Velocity on
the fly possible possible** possible
Position Latching possible not possible possible
Latch Target possible possible possible
Hold/Resume Motion possible possible* possible
Servo Enable possible possible* possible
Fault recovery possible not possible possible
E-Stop Recovery possible possible* possible
* ladder coding req.
** with ladder code