While the SureServo drives can accept traditional commands from host controls, they can also provide their own internal motion control. For example, up to eight index moves can be pre-defined and stored in the drive and then selected and executed using up to three discrete inputs. The predefined index profiles can also be changed via serial communications. The motion can be incremental or absolute (homing routines are available in the drive) and acceleration can be linear or S-curve. Multiple drives can be daisy-chained and addressed separately using the drive’s serial port. This allows very simple yet powerful control of multi-axis processes that do not need precise path control but only precise starting and stopping points. Applications include press feeds, auger fillers, rotary tables, robots for pick and place, test or assembly operations, drilling, cutting, tapping, and similar applications using simple index moves for single or multi-axis motion.