EASY Engineering tools

In addition to the pure product search in the EASY Product Finder, the basic sizing offers you the opportunity to easily come up with a "first" draft of a drive solution for a geared motor with an inverter.

The tool comes to a solution quickly and efficiently in just a few steps using basic applications such as travelling/conveying, lifting or rotating.

1. Select application
2. Select drive concept
3. Enter the application data
4. Select drive technologies
5. Find drive solution

Including M-n characteristics, CAD and ePLAN data. The solution can be logged and transferred directly to the shopping cart.

• Search for and find CAD data in a targeted manner
• Retrieve a product directly from the shopping cart

Available in all common 2D and 3D formats, including 3D PDF

Determine and log torque-speed characteristics of motor/inverter combinations.

A mechatronic system analysis is extremely important for a machine concept. Designers can quickly and easily determine the right drive sizing with the Drive Solution Designer (DSD).

The DSD contains well-founded and proven knowledge on drive applications and electro-mechanical drive components. This knowledge is made available to you interactively. Both simple and complex applications are defined by their individual process data and specific speed curves.

The mechanical and electrical drive structure can be individually adapted to the requirements of your machine. The drive components are tested for both the physical requirements as well as the feasible combinations.

All parties involved in the planning process have a shared view of the development of the drive solution.

the application to achieve the optimum drive solution.

The energy performance certificate transparently illustrates the energy balance of the calculated drive solution. A detailed technical protocol summarises the design results.

The DSD is equipped with an interface to the EASY Product Finder (EPF), thereby combining the advantages of the EPF with those of the DSD.

The highlights of the DSD include optimum ease of operation for quick and simple drive sizing, analysis and testing of the entire drive system and the creation of alternative drive solutions.

User groups

• Design engineers in the planning phase
• Project engineers in the development and commissioning phase
• Service personnel for checking field problems

Applications

• Comprehensive applications such as linear and rotary drives, winding drives, wheel drives, hoist drives and synchronised drives, belt conveyors and pumps
• Process parameters with solution knowledge
• Description of standardised operating modes
• Freely definable motion sequences using convenient editor
• Import of an M/n load characteristic
• Check lists for collecting the application parameter

Mains, ambients

• Network configurations and voltages
• AC mains and DC multi-axis grouping
• Ambient conditions

Drive systems

• Motor on inverter with different control processes
• Mechanical built-on accessories (brakes, encoders)
• With or without gearboxes
• With or without additional drive element
• Single and multi-axis systems
• Regenerative power supply modules
• Brake resistors
• Component combinability
• System integration and product knowledge
• Sizing of application motors

Tests/scenarios

• Limit loads (electrical/mechanical)
• Utilisations, reserves, mains load
• System tests, e.g. by considering the M-n characteristic of the drive system up to field weakening
• Possible combinations
• Losses and energy efficiency
• Coordinated motion sequences

Useful functions

• Drive Solution Energy Performance Certificate
  • Transparency for the application and the entire drive system
  • Energy requirements, energy costs, CO2 emissions, optimisation potential, amortisation
• Application tuner: immediate comparison of solutions with different operation of the application
• Solution documentation through adaptable protocols (short and detailed protocol, commissioning protocol)

Features

• Optimum ease of operation for fast, simple and professional drive sizing
• Optional selection of the product options
• Consideration and check of the entire drive system
• Providing alternatives with comparison
• Various host computers and tables of values
• Available in different languages
• Metric and imperial units
• Online help with operating and sizing tips
• Comprehensive web links to further information sources

The PLC Designer is the tool for your program creation and commissioning of our PLC products. The PLC products are programmed in accordance with the IEC 61131-3 standard.

The PLC Designer offers you all the functions you need for convenient engineering of controller-based solutions. In addition, we offer you comprehensive support in the realisation of your projects through our application engineers in every project phase.

The software is based on CODESYS V3 and is intended for project engineers of mechanical engineering companies. The PLC Designer functionalities include an extensive library of function blocks for a wide range of tasks. The PLC Designer can be used in combination with the EASY Starter for straightforward commissioning.

PLC functionality in line with IEC 61131-3

• Instruction list (IL)
• Ladder diagram (LD)
• Function block diagram (FBD)
• Structured text (ST)
• Sequential function chart (SFC)
• Continuous function chart editor (CFC)

Simply master the complex

• Library collection with standardised FAST technology modules
• Different versions of the same library can be used

Distributed applications

• Several control systems in one project
• Separation of functioning and hardware
• Several applications on one hardware device

Parameterisation dialog

• All diagnostic and parameterisation dialogs of the EASY Starter are also available in the PLC Designer

Reuse

• Object-oriented programming
• Conditional code generation - facilitates the creation of scalable programs through the use of pre-processor instructions

Graphical cam editor

• Easily define even complex motion control. Including cam tracks as well as import and export of data point tables

A good machine visualization is more than an aesthetic interface. It enables simple and error-free operation of the machine and thus increases the productivity of your entire production line.

The EASY UI Designer is exactly the right tool to realize such interfaces. Using the visualization elements already implemented, you can easily create individual operating concepts for different user groups.

All supplied elements are designed according to UX design rules and can be customized. A powerful graphical editor supports your project planning and facilitates the interface design via drag and drop. The EASY UI Designer is based on an open system approach. Advanced control elements outside the standard can be developed together.

The EASY UI Designer can be used to design an online editable dashboard with predefined widgets as well as multi-touch gestures.

The EASY UI Designer is based on an open system approach: Advanced non-standard operating elements can be developed collectively.

Features:  

• Vector-based visualization
• Faster and easier operation through modern technologies supporting multi-touch gestures
• Prepared templates
  • Layout templates (fixed and responsive)
  • Different themes
  • Recipes, users, language switching
• Control and action library
  • Pie chart, donut gauge, panorama view, slider
• Extended communication error handling, for example through optical feedback from the controls
• Process communication via OPC-UA

Language switching

• Many languages already implemented, extendable

Alarm management

• Templates for historical and current alarms
• Different alarm classes definable

User administration

• Offline - management completely available    Online - administration of users partly available (change password already possible, add / edit / delete a user in preparation)

Recipe management

• Template to select, load, save and delete recipes
• Connectable to PLC module for recipe management

Trend recording

• Diagram representation already possible
• Storage and archive retrieval of trends in preparation

By users for users. The EASY Starter supports you in the commissioning and maintenance of your machines. Easy to use parameterisation and diagnostic dialogs and a structured graphical user interface allow you to keep the necessary overview in every situation.

The EASY Starter has been designed specifically for the commissioning and maintenance of Lenze products. The tool enables online diagnostics and troubleshooting within this framework. No parameter modification is possible in the diagnostic mode, meaning that there is no danger of accidental application modification.

A user-friendly menu navigation featuring just a few buttons supports you in all machine adjustments.

The EASY Starter includes all functions that are of importance to you, such as the loading of finished applications onto the device, updating the device firmware or adjusting parameters in context-guided interfaces. The EASY Starter has the right user interface for a variety of applications. Commissioning and maintenance

Intuitive interface

• Interfaces optimised for different applications and users
• Concise menus with just a few buttons
• User guidance independent of the device
• Easy management of multiple devices
• The right parameter with just a few clicks
• Direct support for all device parameters and message

Application-specific interfaces

The EASY Starter can be used in operating modes specific to the application, giving each user an individually tailored interface to efficiently perform their task:

• EASY Starter
• EASY Starter/Online only
• EASY Starter/Online & Read only
• EASY Application Loader
• EASY Firmware Loader
• Smart Motor

EASY Starter

• The full range of functions of the EASY Starter for all users who want to diagnose and set up machines and drives.
• Management of offline and online devices

EASY Starter Online only

• Modifications of parameters directly in the connected device
• Communication via all existing Lenze OPC bus servers
• Easy selection of the communication path to the device
• Transfer to several devices possible

EASY Starter Online & Read only

• Simple online device diagnostics - without the danger of inadvertent changes to the application

EASY Application Loader

• Easy-to-use assistant for service personnel of mechanical engineering companies and end customers
• Load the finished customer application into devices in just a few steps
• Batch control available for serial commissionin

EASY Firmware Loader

• Easy-to-use assistant for service personnel of mechanical engineering companies and end customers
• Load firmware into devices in just a few steps
• Batch control available for serial commissioning

Lenze Smart Motor

• For service personnel of mechanical engineering companies and end customers who use the Lenze Smart Motor
• Easy-to-use PC tool for parameterising the Lenze Smart Motor
• Transfer to motor via USB-NFC adapter (not included in the scope of supply)