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Advanced Standard Drive - Agile
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Advanced Standard Drive - Agile

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Introduction
Bonfiglioli, established in 1956 in Bologna, Italy, is a prominent player in the power transmission and control solutions industry. The company offers a wide range of gearmotors, drive systems, and planetary gearboxes, supported by a global network of subsidiaries and production plants. Bonfiglioli is known for its product quality, extensive experience, know-how, and excellent customer service.
Bonfiglioli Solutions
Bonfiglioli Riduttori is a leading brand in the power transmission industry, focusing on know-how, innovation, and quality. The company produces 1.6 million units annually through automated processes and holds certifications from DNV and TÜV. The acquisition of the Vectron brand has enhanced its position in industrial automation.
Innovative Solutions for Industrial Applications
Bonfiglioli Vectron provides integrated inverter solutions, enhancing the company's offerings in power transmission and control. Bonfiglioli Trasmital specializes in gearmotors for mobile machinery and wind turbine systems.
Advanced Standard Drive - Agile Series
The Agile Series of inverter drives introduces advanced technology for industries such as food & beverage, textile, wood, packaging, and ceramics. These drives feature sensorless vector control for speed and torque, built-in functions for safety, energy savings, diagnostics, and reliability. They are user-friendly, ensuring easy installation and maintenance.
Technical Specifications
Agile inverter drives control asynchronous induction motors and permanent magnet synchronous servomotors. They are compact, with built-in high-tech functions, and come in three models covering power from 0.25 to 11 kW. Optional modules and accessories enhance their versatility.
Applications
Agile inverter drives are suitable for various industries, particularly food & beverage, textile, wood, packaging, and ceramics.
Selection Guide
Ordering an Agile inverter drive requires specifying a designation string that includes mandatory fields for drive identification and optional fields for configurations. The Agile 402 and 202 series offer different power and size options.
Innovation and User Benefits
Agile drives offer rapid installation, energy savings, functional safety, diagnostic analysis, and failure prevention. They are space-saving, with built-in PLC capabilities and sensorless brushless control. The drives support MMC standard memory expansion and can be managed through Bonfiglioli's e-business platform.
Synergy with Bonfiglioli Motors
Agile drives come pre-programmed with Bonfiglioli motor characteristics, facilitating start-up and ensuring compatibility. Users can modify parameters for other motors during the start-up process.
Specifications and Features
  • VPlus Engineering Software: A comprehensive platform for programming and monitoring Bonfiglioli inverter drives, supporting configuration, diagnostics, and control from a PC.
  • IO Monitoring and Graphic Control: Provides a window to view digital inputs/outputs and motor status, with options to display drive functioning values numerically or graphically.
  • Built-in Oscilloscope: Features include 4 programmable traces, 2 ms sampling rate, and data export in CSV format.
  • On-line Help and Comparative Analysis: Offers on-line help for drive parameters and a file compare function for analyzing application parameters offline.
  • Built-in Graphic PLC: Agile drives include a programmable logic controller (PLC) that can be programmed using VPlus software.
Procedures and Functionalities
  • Sensorless Control of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors: Agile drives control brushless servomotors without sensors, using algorithms to calculate motor shaft position.
  • Energy Saving Features: Incorporates functions to reduce electrical energy consumption, including sensorless control, minimum earth leakage, power management, and standby mode.
  • Integrated Safety with Safe Torque Off: Includes the Safe-Torque-Off system, ensuring motor disconnection in emergencies without external contactors.
Recommendations and Best Practices
  • Selective Multi-Motor Control (SMMC): Efficiently controls systems with multiple non-simultaneous motors, storing configurations for up to four motors.
  • Energy Efficiency: Users are encouraged to leverage Agile drives' energy-saving features to reduce costs and environmental impact.
  • Utilizing VPlus Software: Users should utilize VPlus for comprehensive drive management, including parameter configuration, motor setup, and PLC programming.
Conclusion
Agile drives and VPlus software provide a robust solution for efficient motor control, energy savings, and integrated safety, suitable for complex industrial applications.
Overview: The document provides detailed technical specifications and functionalities of Agile drives, focusing on their multi-motor control capabilities, memory options, user interface, and technical data across different power ranges.
Selective Multi-Motor Control (SMMC): Agile drives allow for independent control of up to four motors using a single drive. By utilizing digital inputs in binary combination mode, users can configure parameters for one motor while excluding others.
Resource Pack: Agile drives support a removable MMC memory card for data storage and exchange.
User Interface: The Agile drive features accessible terminals and connectors, a keypad with six function keys, and an RJ45 connector for RS485 Modbus communication.
Technical Specifications:
  • Environment: Operating temperature ranges from 0°C to 40°C (up to 55°C with derating), with a humidity tolerance of 5% to 95%.
  • Electrical: Supports 3-phase and 1-phase mains voltage, with overload and peak current specifications.
  • Standards: Complies with CE, UL, and STO standards.
Power and Control Terminals: The drive includes power input and output terminals, control terminals with digital and analog inputs/outputs, and communication interfaces.
Drive Sizes and Ratings: Agile drives are available in three sizes, covering power ranges from 0.12 kW to 11 kW.
Options and Accessories: Integrated features include a brake-chopper and EMI filter, with optional line chokes and braking resistors.
Standards and Regulations
Compliance with several standards is obligatory for the Adjustable Speed Electrical Power Drive Systems, including DIN EN 61800-1, 61800-2, 61800-3, and 61800-5-1.
Optional Modules
Agile drives come with an RJ45 connector for communication ports. Optional modules can be installed for additional network interfaces.
Mounting Options
Agile inverter drives can be mounted using standard metal brackets or optional kits for feed-through, DIN rail, or anti-vibration mounting.
Braking Resistors
Braking resistors are used to manage energy dissipation during regenerative braking.
Line Chokes
Line chokes are recommended to handle current harmonics and improve power quality.
Company Overview
Bonfiglioli emphasizes customer collaboration and innovation, with a global presence in 16 countries and a commitment to quality and safety.
Contact Information:
  • Tecnotrans Bonfiglioli S.A. (Spain): Located in Barcelona, contact via phone at (+34) 93 4478400 or fax at (+34) 93 3360402.
  • Bonfiglioli France: Situated in Marly la Ville, contact via phone at (+33) 1 34474510 or fax at (+33) 1 34688800.
  • Bonfiglioli India: Based in Chennai, contact via phone at +91 44 2478 1035.
  • Headquarters (Italy): Located in Bologna, contact via phone at +39 051 647 3111 or fax at +39 051 647 3126.
Mission Statement: Bonfiglioli is dedicated to creating, distributing, and servicing world-class power transmission and drive solutions to keep the world in motion.
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Agile Advanced Standard Drive <380 Bonfiglioli Forever Forward

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Bonfiglioli, one name for a large international group. It was back in 1956 that Clementino Bonfiglioli established in Bologna, Italy, the company that still bears his name. Now, some fifty years later, the same enthusiasm and dedication is driving Bonfiglioli to become the world's top name in power transmission and control solutions. Through directly controlled subsidiaries and production plants around the world, Bonfiglioli designs, manufactures and distributes a complete range of gearmotors, drive systems and planetary gearboxes, and boasts the most integrated offering on the market today....

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Bonfiglioli solutions

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Innovative solutions for industrial field. Bonfiglioli Riduttori today is one of the top brands in the power transmission industry. The company's success is the result of a business strategy that relies on three fundamental factors: know-how, innovation and quality. The complete range of Bonfiglioli brand gearmotors offers excellent technical characteristics and guarantees the highest performance. Substantial investment and technical expertise have enabled the company to achieve an annual production output of 1600000 units using completely automated processes. Certification of the company's Quality...

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Advanced Standard Drive

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Advanced technologies for all industrial fields. The new Agile Series of inverter drives from Bonfiglioli sets new standards in technology for a broad range of users. Agile drives are particularly suited to the food & beverage, textile, wood, packaging and ceramic industries, where they can be used with a variety of medium complex automation processes. Agile inverter drives implement a sensorless vector control algorithm that offers excellent performance in speed and torque control. A wide range of built-in functions deliver significant benefits to users seeking safety, energy savings, diagnostics,...

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Agile inverter drives are designed to control asynchronous induction motors and permanent magnet synchronous servomotors. With their sleek, compact cases, Agile drives have been specially developed for maximum functional integration. With a wide range of hi-tech functions already built in, Agile drives are complete and fully functional drives despite their small size. Thanks to intelligent design, the generous and advanced standard functions can be expanded by accessories and optional modules to extend versatility even further. Asynchronous induction motor Sensorless permanent magnet synchronous...

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Areas of application Agile inverter drives can be used in all areas of industry, but are particularly suited to the following applications: Food & Beverage Vertical stocking system

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Selection guide To order an Agile inverter drive, you need to specify the designation string corresponding to it. This comprises a series of fields that define exactly and uniquely what drive you need for your particular application. The first five fields identify the drive and its basic variants. These fields must be mandatorily compiled in your order. You cannot leave any of these fields blank. The next four fields on the other hand define optional configurations for your drive. To do without any of these options, simply leave the corresponding field blank. Basic variants Optional variants...

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Agile 202 series Basic variants Optional variants Design version A standard cooling (default) C Cold Plate Software arrangement (blank) standard (default) Memory extension (blank) no card (default) RP Resource Pack installed Communication modules no module (default) CANopen interface Profibus DP interface RS232 interface RS485 interface DEVICENET interface EtherCAT® interface CM-ProfiNet PROFINET interface CM-VABus/TCP Ethernet VA BUS TCP interface Mounting kit (blank) panel fixing (default) MPSV feed-through no fan MDIN DIN rail (size 1 only) MNVIB anti-vibration

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Innovation at the service of people Agile inverter drives help bridge the gap between user and process by providing software and hardware functions that simplify the management of complete systems. Agile inverter process drives provide accurate sensorless vector control of asynchronous induction motors and permanent magnet synchronous motors, and also help manage the complete automation system by contributing to energy saving, safety, maintenance and logic control. Agile drives are Bonfiglioli’s solution to the needs of the standard drive market, and boast a special “all-in-one” formula that...

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Rapidity It only takes a few minutes to install and set up an Agile drive. Users will find everything quick and easy, from control rack installation to software configuration, and will have the motor up and running in next to no time. • Drilling template • DIN rail mounting • Clearly identified power terminals • Pre-calibrated for Bonfiglioli motors • Automatic and permanent adaptive tuning • Pre-selection of application masks • Customisable units of measure • On-line help Energy saving • Sensorless control of permanent magnet Agile helps reduce system energy requirements by synchronous motors...

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Innovation at the service of people Space saving The compact book size of Agile drives means • High power concentration significant space saving and great manoeuvrability • Space saving in the control panel inside the control cabinet. • Book size • Side by side installation • Same height for all sizes Built-in PLC Agile drives can perform simple and complex programmable logic operations on physical signals to their terminals and on internal software variables, and can combine these operations to create a functional program that can complement or replace a control panel PLC. • Programmable...

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To set up a modern microprocessor drive, the electrical data of the motor have to be known for the drive's speed and torque control to use the right mathematical model for calculating control values. To facilitate start-up and avoid the user having to find and then manually enter all the necessary data, Agile drives come with all the characteristics of equivalent Bonfiglioli motors pre-programmed. The drive loads these as default values into the parameters that can be viewed using the built-in display or VPlus software. The first time you switch the drive on, the motor parameter section will...

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