Why Kollmorgen?

As the earth’s population grows and thrives, industry, business and society are facing massive challenges. The demand for machines, robots and automated vehicles that contribute to a healthier, smarter, more convenient, and more sustainable society is imminent.

Precise and reliable motion is instrumental to the success of our future world. It is the very DNA of Kollmorgen. Kollmorgen has provided engineers with exceptional motion automation technology for over 100 years empowering them to innovate solutions for everything from factories, warehouses and hospitals to robotics and aerospace, enabling them to be more ambitious, more capable, and more confident.

Kollmorgen has contributed to the exploration of outer space, the Moon, and Mars. They have helped to revolutionize modern healthcare, enabling surgical robotics and medical imaging systems for diagnostics. Across the world, nearly a million robotic joints operate speed, precision and safe motion powered by Kollmorgen. Kollmorgen continues to be the global leaders of automated guided vehicles and mobile robots with over 30,000 vehicles deployed.

Progress cannot wait. Kollmorgen’s unrivaled expertise and decades of experience will enable their partners to solve the world's toughest motion and automation challenges with confidence. They rely on Kollmorgen’s global manufacturing and supply chain our extensive library of motors, drives, motion control, and mobile robot software. Co-engineered with our motion experts to tailor fit a perfect solution for the most unique motion requirements. Giving them the flexibility and ability to innovate, design and go to market faster, giving them the highest performing motion and transforming the machines and materials move in factories and warehouses globally.

Kollmorgen continues to be inspired to help build the most ambitious and capable solutions of the future, delivering outstanding value to not only our partners and end users but also the world we live in, for a better tomorrow. Kollmorgen is committed to enable innovators to engineer the exceptional.

2021 marked Kollmorgen’s 105-year anniversary, a century of innovative solutions that have brought big ideas to life, kept the world safer, and improved peoples' lives. Since the introduction of founder Dr. Friedrich Kollmorgen’s patented two-telescope design in 1911, and the company’s incorporation in New York on March 22, 1916, the company has progressed and merged with like-minded visionaries who were committed to solving problems by designing precision-made products. Through the decades, Kollmorgen would be considered the preeminent technological and experiential leader in the design and manufacture of submarine periscopes for the U.S. Navy. And at the start of the nineties, it held the leading market position in the international marketplace as well.