The PMC C-6.0 is the controller that runs a Planar Motor Inc. system — the "brain" that routes every mover and resolves traffic. Its multicore processor drives many independent XBots at once through a PLC or direct code, and a single PMC controls 200 XBots and 200 Flyways.

What happens to a planar system as the number of movers grows?

Every added mover is another path to plan, and collisions multiply faster than the hardware count. The PMC handles routing and collision avoidance centrally, so complex sorting, mixing and high-traffic routes run at speed without one XBot crossing another's path — and when the system outgrows one controller, a second PMC daisy-chains in rather than a ground-up redesign.

• One PMC controls 200 XBots and 200 Flyways
• EtherCAT, Ethernet, ProfiNet, CC-Link and Powerlink fieldbuses
• 147 x 179 x 33 mm, 1.0 kg, 18–60 VDC, 8 W
• Planar Motor Tool for emulation; Visual Components and iPhysics models

Against a conventional rotary or linear axis, a planar system needs a controller that reasons in two dimensions at once — the PMC turns a field of individual movers into one coordinated transport system.