Festo Packages a Multiprotocol Servo Drive and Motor into an Innovative Developer’s Kit

Summary

ISLANDIA, N.Y. - March 12, 2025 - The Festo CMMT-ST servo drive starter kit for control engineers and programmers offers a smart, low-cost way to learn how to commission and size Festo’s multiprotocol family of servo drives that range from 300 W DC up to 12 kW AC. The kits are discounted at 50% of the cost of the individual components and can be ordered online. 

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:

• The 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.

About Festo U.S.

Festo is a leading manufacturer of pneumatic and electromechanical systems, components and controls for process and industrial automation. For 100 years with more than 50 in the U.S., Festo Corporation has continuously elevated the state of manufacturing with innovations and optimized motion control solutions that deliver higher performing, more profitable automated manufacturing and processing equipment. Through advanced technical and industrial education, Festo Didactic Learning Systems and its partners prepare workers for current and future manufacturing technologies.