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Incorporating Frameless Motors Into an Environmentally Resilient Design

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…
Servo Motor Parameters and Their Proper Conversions for Servo Drive Utilization and Comparison

Servo Motor Parameters and Their Proper Conversions for Servo Drive Utilization and Comparison >

For your mechanism to perform as intended, you need to convert the published servo motor parameters into the correct units of measure for servo drive utilization. Learn how to perform the necessary motor parameter conversions to ensure reliable…
Achieving Ultimate Motion Precision Using Frameless Servo Motors

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…
2G Motion System: New Thinking for Improving Performance—Without Redesigning Your Machine

New Thinking for Improving Performance — Without Redesigning Your Machine >

Explore all your options for increasing machine performance, from a complete redesign to a strategic upgrade of crucial motion systems. Use this in-depth guide to find your optimum balance of risk, cost, time to market and expected performance…
Functional Safety 101 White Paper

Functional Safety 101: The What, Why and How >

Mandates and regulations aside, more customers are demanding functional safety. But no two applications are exactly the same, and there isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution. This whitepaper reveals how equipment manufacturers can stay up to speed.

Five Motion Tips for Optimal High-Definition Metal Cutting Performance >

Achieve next-generation performance for laser, waterjet and plasma metal-cutting machines. Optimize the fieldbus, control loop bandwidth, servo motor design, feedback system and cabling using these 5 motion tips for high-precision metal cutting.

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…

Motion for Missiles: Optimizing Performance  >

Missile systems continue to evolve to meet specialized needs — from tactical guided missiles to longer-range strategic weapons, each designed for launch from a particular platform to reach a particular target. Defense contractors are under pressure…

Getting Started Sizing and Selecting Servos: Understanding the Need for a System Solution >

When specifying servo motors, drives and cables, learn how to optimize motion by incorporating mechanical load, motion profile, ambient environment, cabling and other considerations into a system-wide approach.

Easy-to-Clean, Durable Motion Systems for Food Processing and Packaging >

The food processing and packaging industry plays a major role in ensuring that the final product is safe to consume. While food safety is a serious requirement, it also presents significant challenges for manufacturers. Frequent, high-pressure…

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.