Kollmorgen Company Profile: Motion Products and the NDC Vehicle Platform
Updated: 6 days ago
Kollmorgen makes servo motors, drives and motion control systems, and supplies NDC Solutions, a control platform that vehicle builders use to make driverless vehicles. The brand has more than 100 years of history and today carries the Regal Rexnord name. This profile sets out its products and its vehicle platform.
Kollmorgen at a Glance
Fact | Detail |
Brand | Kollmorgen, a Regal Rexnord brand |
History | More than 100 years |
Core business | Motion systems: servo motors, drives and automation platforms |
Vehicle business | NDC Solutions platform for AGVs and AMRs |
Sales engineering | More than 115 sales and application engineers worldwide |
Motion Products
Group | Products |
Motors | Servo, frameless, direct-drive, stepper, washdown, brush DC and explosion-proof motors |
Drives | Servo drives such as the AKD2G, and stepper drives |
Automation | Kollmorgen Automation Suite with controllers and I/O |
Systems | Matched motion systems of motor, drive and cables |
Frameless and servo motors of this kind are widely used inside robot joints, which is where Kollmorgen meets the robot industry.
NDC Solutions
NDC Solutions is Kollmorgen's platform for automated guided vehicles and autonomous mobile robots. It is sold only through a partner network of vehicle builders, who use it to automate almost any type of material handling vehicle.
Element | Function |
NDC8 with System Manager | Controls the whole vehicle system and its traffic |
CVC700 | Vehicle controller |
AC7 and DC7 | Motor controllers |
LS2000 | Laser scanner for laser and natural navigation |
NDC Flex | Hybrid system combining guided-vehicle and mobile-robot behavior |
Cirrus | Cloud-based commissioning |
Visualizer | Web application for real-time supervision |
Kollmorgen also supplies fleet management software, onboarding support and application expertise.
What Is Not Covered
The company pages retrieved for this profile do not state the founding year, headquarters, employee numbers or sales, so those are left out.
Strengths and Challenges
Strengths
A long-established motion control brand.
A vehicle platform used by many builders.
Motors suited to robot joints.
Challenges
Competition from other navigation and control suppliers.
Vehicle makers that develop their own control systems.
Current Catalogue Coverage
Catalogue checked on 15 October 2026: 1 associated product records. The links below are representative entries, rather than a claim that every historical model is currently available.
Kollmorgen FAQ
What does Kollmorgen make?
Servo motors, drives, motion control systems and the NDC Solutions platform for driverless vehicles.
What is NDC Solutions?
Kollmorgen's control and fleet management platform for automated guided vehicles and autonomous mobile robots.
Does Kollmorgen build vehicles itself?
No. NDC Solutions is sold through a partner network of vehicle builders.
Who owns Kollmorgen?
The brand carries the Regal Rexnord name.
What is NDC8?
The system generation at the core of NDC Solutions, which controls the vehicles and their traffic.
Sources
Kollmorgen: AGV controls
Kollmorgen: about us
