Product Description:

The MTC-P01.2-M2-A2-A2-A2-FW EP is a CNC control module produced by Bosch Rexroth Indramat for the MTC200 CNC Modules series. It plugs into an industrial PC chassis and provides central motion control for multiple axes by coordinating connected digital drives. The card handles path planning, interpolation, and real-time communication so that machine tools or handling systems execute programmed movements with deterministic timing.

This module carries 3 axis processor slots, and each slot can host a dedicated coprocessor so that computational load is spread across separate motion channels. The standard drive link is the SERCOS fiber-optic interface, enabling synchronous data exchange with servo amplifiers. Physical integration follows the ISA bus plug-in card format, and the board occupies only 17.5 × 124 × 280 mm of space. Program and buffer data reside in 2 MB of CNC RAM, which is sufficient for part programs and position tables. The axis processors are supplied with coprocessors, and an integrated axis processor on the base board oversees overall task scheduling. A base drive capacity of 8 drives is provided, while up to 4 module slots can be stacked to enlarge the axis count.

When the application grows, the card’s architecture scales beyond the base design of 8 axes with co-processor; linking additional axis processors and modules lifts control to as many as 32 drives. Back-plane communication for these add-ons travels over the PC/104 expansion bus, which maintains deterministic access to shared memory without burdening the host PC’s system bus. In high-throughput machines, the scheduler can supervise up to 7 processes concurrently so that spindle, feed, auxiliary, and diagnostics routines execute in parallel. This scaling allows larger machining centers to be controlled from the same industrial PC.