Kollmorgen and National Instruments Join Forces fro Advanced Servo Solutions

July 18, 2013
National Instruments announced it is expanding its motion control offering through a collaboration with Kollmorgen

National Instruments announced it is expanding its motion control offering through a collaboration with Kollmorgen, a leading global provider of motion systems and components for OEMs. These products include drives, motors, linear positioners, gearheads, cables and accessories. This collaboration between makes the design of sophisticated machinery and equipment easier.

NI provides a variety of motion hardware, all programmed through the National Instruments LabVIEW NI SoftMotion Module and based on the LabVIEW reconfigurable I/O architecture, to help engineers create customized and highly configurable motion systems tightly integrated with NI's broad measurement and control I/O portfolio.Kollmorgen extends that offering to include servo and stepper technology across a variety of drive and motor product families. 

For example, Kollmorgen's EtherCAT AKD brushless servo drive is integrated directly with NI SoftMotion, empowering machine builders to create high-axis-count servo systems without EtherCAT programming. These servo systems are inherently synchronized with any other modules in an NI PXI or NI CompactRIO system. NI also sells the new single-cable AKM motor globally, which combines motor power and feedback signals in one connector, reducing wiring cost and complexity.

To learn more about NI motion products, visit www.ni.com/motion.