Linear Technology Control-independent · your advantage
We build the actuator – with mechanics proven robust over decades. Which control system drives it remains your decision: the S+R mechanics are not tied to any control brand or generation, but fit into what already runs at your site. The achievable motion performance scales with your control system and drive – the proven mechanics stay independent. That saves concretely: during commissioning, on licences, on spare parts and across the entire machine lifecycle.
Your advantage
You choose the control system – we supply the proven mechanics. This pays off across the entire machine lifecycle: during commissioning, on licences, in stock and in service.
Your team stays in its familiar control and operating world – whether Siemens TIA Portal, Beckhoff TwinCAT or your factory standard. No onboarding onto a foreign, proprietary system means shorter commissioning and faster service.
You program in the engineering system you have licensed anyway. A second, vendor-bound control software solely for the actuator is unnecessary – no separate licence island to procure and maintain on the side.
The actuator follows your plant standard. That means fewer spare-part and control variants, uniform diagnostics and a consistent maintenance routine – instead of a special solution for a single component.
No black-box control that ties you to a single supplier over the machine lifecycle. You stay free in service, expansion and the choice of a second source – the actuator follows your control system, not the other way around.
Control systems age within a few years, robust mechanics run longer. During a control modernisation or a retrofit the proven actuator stays in place – no forced full replacement just because the control world changes.
If your plant mandates a specific control platform, we design the actuator exactly to it – also in the installed base and during retrofit. That saves special approvals and architecture breaks.
How control openness works
Control-open does not mean "arbitrary". It means: the mechanical performance is fixed and proven, while the control level stays open – for exactly what is standard at your site.
The actuator is not tied to any control brand or generation. It fits into the control world that already runs at your site.
Precision, dynamics and motion-control functions scale with your control system and drive – you set the level, not the actuator.
You stay in the engineering system you operate anyway. A second, vendor-bound control software solely for the actuator is unnecessary.
You decide – on the control system and on the motor. Which drive delivers the motion is shown in the Motion Control section: the same principle on the drive side.
AI and agent readiness
When interfaces, signals, end positions, feedback and spare-part logic are described cleanly, engineering and service agents can classify technical information faster. This does not make the machine uncontrollably autonomous: motion, releases and safety stay anchored in PLC, motion control and the safety concept.
Drawings, connection information, signal descriptions and service notes are documented so that later engineering, spare-part clarification and diagnostics do not depend on individual knowledge.
Position, end positions, status signals, motor data and feedback are described to suit the machine, so control and assistance systems work with reliable information.
AI agents can prepare, compare or explain information. The technical execution of safety-critical motion stays with the verified control and safety architecture.
Drive side
The same principle on the drive side: from the robust three-phase motor to the servo drive for demanding motion control – integrated platform-open.
Our electrical interface is the motor terminal box: S+R supplies the proven mechanics with mounted motor and a defined terminal-box interface. Control cabinets and commissioning deliberately stay in your hands – exactly what keeps you independent of control system and licences.