Festo launches CMMT-ST servo drive starter kit

Festo has introduced a new developer’s kit designed to help controls engineers and programmers familiarize themselves with setting up and commissioning a CMMT servo drive and motor combination.

The kit includes a CMMT-ST DC drive, EMMT-ST stepper motor, cables, connectors and access to Festo’s multiprotocol family of servo drives that range from 300 W DC up to 12 kW AC.

Each of these developer’s kits contains a CMMT-ST 300 W servo drive, EMMT-ST stepper motor with battery-free multi-turn absolute encoder, motor cable, and connectors.

CMMT-ST servo drives feature:

• integrated safety function safe torque off
• fast and easy commissioning with festo automation suite
• data monitoring
• dynamic, point-to-point, and interpolating movement
• control of bldc, stepper, and ec motors
• direct and secure cloud connectivity
• compact design

The EMMT-ST stepper motor features an absolute encoder, IP65 protection, optional holding brake, and control via a single cable. QR codes included with the developer’s starter kit link to Festo Automation Suite software for commissioning and Electric Motion Sizing software for sizing components for the application. Festo sales personnel, applications engineers, and distributor personnel are available to assist the development process.

All Festo CMMT-ST DC and CMMT-AS AC servo drives are compatible with EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT, PROFINET, and Modbus TCP protocols. Users simply log onto the drive and select the protocol from a dropdown menu. This family of multiprotocol servo drives lowers inventory and engineering overhead through a learn-one/learn-them-all strategy of function block programming across the entire CMMT servo drive family.