Simultaneous capture

Most state-of-the-art motion trace facilities allow you to capture more than one variable at a time simultaneously. Particularly when examining the whole machine performance this capability can be very important. For example if you want to look at the interaction of one axis with another you can trace the position as well as the servo lag for two axes simultaneously (total of 4 variables). The resulting data will explicitly show any interaction that may be occurring between axes because the data will be “time-stamped.” In other words the four traced variables will be collected at the same moment in time for each element of the trace array.