Parker March 2016 Discontinuations

Obsolescence of Aries Controller

Discontinuation Date: March 2016

Parker Hannifin, EMN Rohnert Park is discontinuing the sale of all Aries Controller (aka Aries CE) servo drives effective March 1st, 2016. The Intelligent Parker Amplifier (IPA) was designed and introduced as a replacement for the Aries Controller. The IPA has been on the market for a full year with an excellent track record for manufacturing quality and application performance, including numerous direct replacement for Aries CE applications. With a proven and superior product available as a replacement, Parker has decided to retire the Aires CE to simplify support and to encourage customers to move to the new and better product. 

The following parts are impacted:
AR-04CE
AR-08CE
AR-13CE
All custom products based on the above products, such as:
CP*AR-04CE-xxxxx
CP*AR-08CE-xxxxx
CP*AR-13CE-xxxxx

Last-Time Buy Period and Date of Obsolescence
Parker will accept orders for the Aries Controller until March 15th, 2016.

Suggested Replacements
The IPA is the recommend replacement for the Aries CE.
AR-04CE=IPA04-HC
AR-08CE=IPA15-HC
AR-13CE=IPA15-HC

Communications
The robust Ethernet implementation in the IPA provides outstanding performance in HMI, PC and PLC based applications. PC and HMI drives for the IPA are the same as those used with the AriesCE so that most legacy applications will communicatewith the IPA without changes to the settings.

Programming
ACR-View 6.4 and greater includes support for the IPA. Existing Aries Controller applications can be upgraded with a single button press in ACR-View. With this process, motor set-up information is updated to support new values in the IPA. AcroBasic program code developed for the Aries CE can be loaded in an IPA without modification in most applications. In some cases the faster processing of the IPA may introduce some timing changes to programs, generally reducing program complexity.