With gains in PC processing power and the increased speed of motion control and machine vision networks, software motion control technology has the potential to eliminate the use of hardware.

Software motion systems take the functionality that was in stand-alone motion and machine vision controllers and split it between more capable drives and faster PCs. PC-based motion control solutions running on a standard industrial PC with a real-time extension (RTOS) and multi-tasking capabilities empower motion control and machine vision engineers to do things not possible on hardware.