WIN-Commander

WIN Commander serves as a convenient interface in Windows between the user and the LANG positioning controller for the LSTEP express, LSTEP, ECO-STEP, and MCL product lines.

With its graphical user interface, it offers extensive options for parameterization and customer-specific presets, such as travel speeds, acceleration, etc. These can be conveniently stored both in the controller and as configuration files. The full range of the controller’s functions can thus be accessed intuitively via easy-to-use graphical elements without any knowledge of the command set (see LANG API), while also offering specialists the option to use commands specific to the respective product directly.

Highlights of the application are extensive options for creating motion sequences (position chains, meandering motions), as well as a custom-developed scripting language that can be used to create and implement complex PLC-like sequences. Furthermore, the use of a joystick, trackball, or buttons—either for manual operation on the device or as controls on the interface—enables numerous functions, such as the direct movement of axes.

These functions are complemented by a graphically and technically sophisticated oscilloscope feature that allows many different control signals to be captured on up to four independent channels. Here, the user benefits from a wide variety of configuration options found in modern oscilloscopes today (triggers, signal level settings, differential measurement points, etc.). The results can be saved both in a data log and graphically in files for later analysis. The oscilloscope is an ideal tool for performing tasks such as controller tuning, as it provides direct access to parameters on its interface. Corresponding motion sequences can be initiated simultaneously with the oscilloscope function.

WIN-Commander provides an easy start to operating LANG positioning controllers and serves as the tool for easily and reliably configuring and adapting the product to meet customer needs.