AKD-N "ES" Drive Variant

AKD firmware v01-22-00-000 and later support the "ES" drive.

KAS IDE "Integrated development environment" An integrated development environment is a type of computer software that assists computer programmers in developing software. IDEs normally consist of a source code editor, a compiler and/or interpreter, build-automation tools, and a debugger v4.00 and later are compatible.

Kollmorgen recommends using v4.00 and later because the drive features available in AKD firmware v01-22 are integrated with and supported by KAS IDE v4.00.

EtherCAT ***EtherCAT is an open, high-performance Ethernet-based fieldbus system. The development goal of EtherCAT was to apply Ethernet to automation applications which require short data update times (also called cycle times) with low communication jitter (for synchronization purposes) and low hardware costs Devices Backup and Restore requires AKD firmware v01-22-00-000 at a minimum.

The firmware for the "ES" drive is not available in the backup files if the existing backup contains older firmware.

See EtherCAT Devices Backup to update the backup files.

The AKD firmware and KAS firmware packages are available in the downloads section of Kollmorgen website.

• AKD backup/restore firmware package
• AKD firmware

The "NB" variants are functionally compatible and can be swapped using the EtherCAT Devices Backup and Restore feature.

Kollmorgen recommends using "ES" drives for new machines.

We do not recommend using "ES" drives as replacements with existing machines because this may require a drive firmware upgrade and an update to existing EtherCAT devices backup files.