{"id":4955,"date":"2025-03-29T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T08:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=4955"},"modified":"2025-03-29T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T08:16:08","slug":"kollmorgen-releases-sfd-m-high-resolution-encoder-with-multi-turn-absolute-suggestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=4955","title":{"rendered":"Kollmorgen releases SFD-M high-resolution encoder with multi-turn absolute suggestions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_583171\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kollmorgen-featured.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-583171\" class=\"size-full wp-image-583171\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kollmorgen-featured.jpg\" alt=\"Kollmorgen's SFD-M.\" width=\"770\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kollmorgen-featured.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kollmorgen-featured-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kollmorgen-featured-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kollmorgen-featured-768x499.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Kollmorgen-featured-368x238.jpg 368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-583171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The SFD-M high-resolution encoder gives multi-turn absolute suggestions. | Supply: Kollmorgen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kollmorgen Corp., a developer of movement management and automation methods, this week launched the Good Suggestions Machine, Multi-Flip, or SFD-M, encoder. It stated the SFD-M permits machine builders to realize high-resolution, multi-turn suggestions with absolute positioning info accessible at system startup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur new SFD-M encoder gives multi-turn absolute performance with distinctive place accuracy and backbone at zero extra price over Kollmorgen motors with single-turn encoders,\u201d stated Chris Cooper, senior director of worldwide product administration at Kollmorgen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s an enormous profit for precision and productiveness at a financial savings of tons of of {dollars} per motor and doubtlessly a number of thousand {dollars} in a fancy, multi-axis machine,\u201d he added. \u201cSingle motor-to-drive cable expertise with auto drive setup additional lowers whole prices. We&#8217;re very proud to supply all of those advantages to our clients as an integral a part of Kollmorgen\u2019s industry-leading servo methods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Designed to work with AKD and AKD2G drives, the SFD-M absolute multi-turn encoder might be built-in into Kollmorgen-housed servo motors. This comes at no extra cost as compared with the SFD-3 single-turn absolute encoder. This allows it to offer multi-turn efficiency, 4 instances higher positioning accuracy, and 50 instances decrease EMF noise.<\/p>\n<p>Kollmorgen has greater than 100 years of movement expertise. Its intensive product portfolio contains motors, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/category\/actuators-motors-servos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drives<\/a>, linear actuators, automated guided automobile (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/category\/robots-platforms\/agv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AGV<\/a>) management methods, and automation management platforms. The Radford, Va.-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/tag\/kollmorgen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">firm<\/a>\u00a0stated its expertise combines efficiency, reliability, and ease of use to present machine builders a market benefit.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-568305\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RSE25_728x90_RegNow-1_Vs1.jpg\" alt=\"SITE AD for the 2025 Robotics Summit registration.\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.roboticssummit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Register now so you do not miss out!<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_53 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\" role=\"button\"><label for=\"item-6a28ad3ace0ab\" ><span class=\"\"><span style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input aria-label=\"Toggle\" aria-label=\"item-6a28ad3ace0ab\"  type=\"checkbox\" id=\"item-6a28ad3ace0ab\"><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=4955\/#SFD-M_gives_absolute_multi-turn_positioning\" title=\"SFD-M gives absolute multi-turn positioning\">SFD-M gives absolute multi-turn positioning<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=4955\/#Kollmorgen_shares_key_specs\" title=\"Kollmorgen shares key specs\">Kollmorgen shares key specs<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=4955\/#See_Kollmorgen_on_the_Robotics_Summit_Expo\" title=\"See Kollmorgen on the Robotics Summit &amp; Expo\">See Kollmorgen on the Robotics Summit &amp; Expo<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"SFD-M_gives_absolute_multi-turn_positioning\"><\/span>SFD-M gives absolute multi-turn positioning<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Kollmorgen stated the SFD-M is equal to different third-party encoders that include a premium value. With the SFD-M, clients can obtain substantial financial savings in machine designs that carry out at excessive ranges of precision, effectivity, and effectiveness, it asserted.<\/p>\n<p>The SFD-M measures the place of the rotor shaft all through every 360\u00ba rotation with out requiring reference to a house place. As well as, it registers the entire variety of rotations the shaft has made in both course.<\/p>\n<p>This absolute multi-turn positioning functionality is necessary when exact monitoring of place is required over massive rotational distances, reminiscent of in machine instrument positioning, packaging machines, materials dealing with, satellite tv for pc monitoring, and plenty of different purposes, stated Kollmorgen.<\/p>\n<p>The SFD-M additionally maintains absolute positioning info in actual time, even when the system is powered down, eliminating the necessity for time-consuming homing sequences upon startup, the corporate stated.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Kollmorgen_shares_key_specs\"><\/span>Kollmorgen shares key specs<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Absolute multi-turn encoders from different suppliers usually require a battery to retain positioning info when the system is powered down or throughout an influence failure, famous Kollmorgen. These exterior batteries require alternative and might be topic to failure. Different options use mechanical gear trains, that are noisy, backlash-prone, and add measurement to the motor.<\/p>\n<p>The brand new Kollmorgen SFD-M eliminates these points, as an alternative utilizing energy-harvesting expertise to reliably preserve positioning info without having for batteries or gear trains. Battery-free operation eliminates upkeep points whereas additionally supporting efforts to scale back the consumption of pure sources and decrease waste.<\/p>\n<p>Kollmorgen stated the SFD-M is extremely correct and listed extra specs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Decision of 24 bits per revolution<\/li>\n<li>16,777,216 counts per revolution<\/li>\n<li>0.0772 arc-sec per rely<\/li>\n<li>Multi-turn absolute vary of 16 bits = 65,536 motor revolutions<\/li>\n<li>Accurcy of &lt; +\/\u2013 1 arc-min typical at 25\u00baC an &lt; +\/\u2013 3 arc-min worst case<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"See_Kollmorgen_on_the_Robotics_Summit_Expo\"><\/span>See Kollmorgen on the Robotics Summit &amp; Expo<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"WtPCK0QAjoc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Best Moments from the 2024 Boston Robotics Summit\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WtPCK0QAjoc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>To be taught extra about Kollmorgen\u2019s newest merchandise, see it on the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roboticssummit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robotics Summit &amp; Expo<\/a>, which takes place April 30 to Might 1 on the Boston Conference and Exhibition Heart. The corporate will likely be <a href=\"https:\/\/rsedtbdtx2025.mapyourshow.com\/8_0\/exhibitor\/exhibitor-details.cfm?exhid=1208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exhibiting<\/a> at Sales space 644.<\/p>\n<p>As well as, on Thursday at 2:30 PM, Stephen Funk, an electromagnetics design engineer skilled at Kollmorgen, will likely be discuss \u201cHow one can Choose the Proper Motor to Cut back Price and Time to Market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His presentation will discover the steadiness between configuration and customization. Funk will take a look at the continuum from normal and configurable merchandise, which provide fast options, to customization, which gives the pliability wanted for exact optimization. That is notably necessary in tailoring motor properties to satisfy stringent necessities, providing a definite benefit in robotic purposes, based on Funk.<\/p>\n<p>The Robotics Summit additionally gives quite a few\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.roboticssummit.com\/networking-events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">networking<\/a>\u00a0alternatives, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.roboticssummit.com\/massrobotics-career-fair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Profession Truthful<\/a>, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.roboticssummit.com\/form-function-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">robotics growth problem<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.roboticssummit.com\/rbr50-gala\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards Gala<\/a>, and extra.<\/p>\n<article class=\"type-post entry\" aria-label=\"Women in robotics breakfast returns to Robotics Summit\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.cvent.com\/event\/57d3fa74-c275-45bc-8f26-ef70402e5c08\/websitePage:ada4d5f8-e105-4175-8d5b-c53673cf04da?RefId=mys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Registration is now open.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><!--<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\"\n\t\t\txmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\"\n\t\t\txmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n\t\t<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/kollmorgen-releases-sfd-m-high-resolution-encoder-multi-turn-absolute-feedback\/\"\n    dc:identifier=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/kollmorgen-releases-sfd-m-high-resolution-encoder-multi-turn-absolute-feedback\/\"\n    dc:title=\"Kollmorgen releases SFD-M high-resolution encoder with multi-turn absolute feedback\"\n    trackback:ping=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/kollmorgen-releases-sfd-m-high-resolution-encoder-multi-turn-absolute-feedback\/trackback\/\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>-->\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SFD-M high-resolution encoder gives multi-turn absolute suggestions. | Supply: Kollmorgen Kollmorgen Corp., a developer of movement management and automation methods, this week launched the Good Suggestions Machine, Multi-Flip, or SFD-M, encoder. 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