White Papers

Incorporating Frameless Motors Into an Environmentally Resilient Design >

Daily washdowns, deep-sea submersion, high radiation, high vacuum, hazardous atmospheres: When a housed servo motor can’t provide the protection you need in a compact form factor, consider embedding a frameless servo motor. Read this white paper to…

Achieving Ultimate Motion Precision Using Frameless Servo Motors >

Frameless motors aren’t just for robotic joints. Compact actuators, sensor system gimbals, submersible propulsion systems and other applications benefit from direct drive precision and compact design. Learn how to directly embed a frameless motor in…

Exoskeletons at Scale: Accelerating the Transition from R&D to Full-rate Production >

The exoskeleton market is still in its infancy — but evolving quickly and ripe with opportunity. It’s a double-edged sword for OEMs who must identify the most impactful applications and crack the code on full-scale production, which presents a new…

Humanoid Robots: From Design to Delivery >

Humanoid robots promise to make life and work better for millions of people. But creating a design that performs tasks with human-like dexterity and superhuman endurance, then bringing it successfully to market, means solving multiple design…

Kollmorgen’s Direct Drive Technology Improves the Precision and Productivity of Lithium-Ion Battery Coaters >

Direct drive technology improves the manufacturing quality and productivity of lithium-ion batteries used in battery-electric vehicles and other products that are changing the world.

Evolving the Rules of Inertia Matching >

The accepted principle of matching motor to load inertia is no longer pertinent with today’s faster processors and advanced control algorithms.

Kollmorgen Direct Drive Technology Enhances the Accuracy and Throughput of Electric Vehicle Battery Production >

As electric vehicles promise cleaner, more sustainable transportation, the need for reliable lithium-ion batteries is skyrocketing. Battery manufacturers are looking for innovative ways to maximize production quality and speed.

How Compliant Robotic Tooling Delivers Safety and Precision in Finishing Operations  >

Force-controlled blending or finishing operations typically rely upon human operators who can provide subtle compliance in grinding, deburring or polishing. Unfortunately, these operations create inherent risks for these workers—from injuries to…

Advanced Surgical Robots: Designing Compact, Powerful Motion for the Next Generation >

Learn the key criteria for designing axially compact arm joints that minimize space, maximize torque, and deliver precision performance in surgical robots.

Direct Drive Motors Improve Flexographic Printing Performance >

Recent work done by Kollmorgen—a global leader in manufacturing motor and motion solutions—has shown that it is possible to synchronize components within the flexo printing process without mechanical transmission by using closed loop control…

Optimize Frameless Motor Performance and Cost in 5 Steps or Less >

Reliability in extreme environments. Optimized motor windings. A larger through-bore aspect ratio. How do you achieve these and other specialized motor attributes on a rapid development schedule, with assurance of meeting cost and supply requirements…

Diagnostic Imaging: Motion for Every Modality >

An aging population, a growing burden of disease, continuous development of new clinical applications, and global advancements in the standards of disease prevention, early detection, diagnosis and treatment. For all these reasons and more,…