The accepted principle of matching motor to load inertia is no longer pertinent with today’s faster processors and advanced control algorithms.
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Machine tool capabilities depend on more precision at higher speeds with motion tuned to their exacting application requirements. To achieve the greatest possible precision and repeatability for shaping, grinding, drilling or other applications, shaping machines need to eliminate backlash and chatter while ensuring safety and design compliance.
Kollmorgen understands these challenges. For over 100 years, Kollmorgen’s motors, drives and controls have provided machine tool builders with innovative solutions with the optimum motion design, integration and performance for each individual machine. From milling and routing to boring and turning, if a machine tool requires precision motion control, Kollmorgen has a solution.
More Ambitious Machine Design
Progress begins with performance. Our high-performance servo motors include direct drive rotary, linear, frameless, explosion proof, washdown and other options to provide superior motion performance for every machine technology, application and operating environment.
More Capable Integration, Customization and Performance
Because we understand machine tool equipment, our products integrate seamlessly with industry-standard and custom controllers.
- The Kollmorgen Automation Suite combines the best of a standard control solution with your custom machine requirements.
- Drives with SafeMotion options built-in offer minimal downtime and enhanced operator safety to achieve the ideal system for any machine tool application.
More Confident Engineering and Delivery
Through our co-engineering and co-development capabilities, you can customize our products to help you design lighter, more efficient machines using fewer and smaller parts. Our self-guided design tools help you model, choose and optimize products online, and with direct engineer-to-engineer access, you can address your specialized shaping machine requirements.
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Material Forming Overview Brochure
Advanced material forming processes are defined by quality, repeatability and throughput. These requirements place unique demands on the performance of the motion systems that drive cutting, bending, braking and other material forming machines.
2G Motion System: Best by Design
When you need optimal motion control, the intuitive solution is to choose best-inclass components, regardless of vendor mix. But as an engineer, you know that intuitive doesn’t always mean right.
2G Motion System: New Thinking for Improving Performance—Without Redesigning Your Machine
With access to higher-resolution feedback devices, faster processors, sharper vision systems, and more sophisticated communication buses, your competitors can offer innovative, value-added features with each new machine generation. Staying ahead of this competition can be particularly challenging for lean engineering teams with limited resources.
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Count on Kollmorgen support to help you design and build a successful machine and keep it reliably productive, anywhere in the world. Our co-engineering experts will work with you to tailor a perfect-fit solution for your motion requirements.
For more than 100 years, Kollmorgen has been creating innovative solutions that bring big ideas to reality, keep the world safer and improve lives. Our history of reliability is unsurpassed, and our solutions are supported through engineering centers of excellence and customer service in all major regions of the world.
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