Kollmorgen e-News is a regular motion control engineering and innovation update providing news through significant educational articles and product information from Kollmorgen and other expert sources.

Whether you are an engineer designing a wide variety of different types of motion control systems, or one type of system in various sizes, you may find it advantageous to select a flexible drive where one type fits all. In Design World magazine's Essential Tips for Designing with Digital Servo Drives by Carroll Wontrop, Senior Systems Engineer with Danaher Motion, learn how standardizing on a digital drive family can help you benefit from lower costs and less design time invested in learning, specifying, and implementing even the most complex system. Full Article>>.

Agilent Technologies Inc. is a leading global measurement company and a technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis, with net revenues of $5.8 billion in fiscal 2008. The company's 20,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries.

Agilent's SJ50 Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) system uses breakthrough Solid Shape Modeling - an industry first - to measure and characterize components and solder joints in printed circuit boards (PCBs) with lifelike 3D visualization. When it came to redesigning the system to further reduce cycle time, Agilent specified a high performance, all digital motion network architecture with supporting hardware and software from Danaher Motion to satisfy the demanding precision and extremely high speed operation - all while holding system prices down. Full Article>>

Danaher Motion's family of Kollmorgen CARTRIDGE DDR™ direct drive rotary servomotors combine the performance advantages of frameless direct drive motors with the ease of installation of a full-frame motor, and at a significantly reduced price point than conventional direct drive technology. They are available in five frame sizes ranging from 4.25 in. square to 13.78 in. square with four stack lengths per frame, CARTRIDGE DDR motors are a completely unique category of direct drive technology that feature pre-engineered components, an integrated, factory-aligned high resolution feedback device and a unique bearing-less design that facilitates maintenance-free 'mount and run' operation in under 30 minutes. Find out more>>.

• Keep an eye out for a new Kollmorgen catalog highlighting the highly technology overviews, relevant specifications and performance data, system overviews, feedback and connector options, and ordering information to help you build a better machine faster.
• January 22nd issue of Machine Design including an article by Wind River and Danaher Motion on Simulating Machine Builds in Real Time Motion.

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