** Kollmorgen said its Essentials family can reduce engineering time and overall system costs. | Source: Kollmorgen

Imagine that every time you made a sandwich, you would first have to grow wheat, milk a cow, and assemble a churn. This is about how a robotics engineer feels when each new project requires a six-month selection and coordination of motion system components. "Can't you just take a ready—made set?" you might ask. It turns out that it is possible.
The era of common sense is dawning in the world of automation. Instead of forcing engineers to reinvent the wheel, integrator companies offer them... a ready-made bike. We are talking about preconfigured motion systems that include everything you need: a servo, controller, cables, and software. It's like a Lego construction kit for professionals — take it and assemble it without wasting time searching for compatible parts.
"Our goal is to reduce the time to market for equipment manufacturers. We eliminate up to 75% of the steps related to designing and verifying component compatibility," says a Kollmorgen representative. In fact, they sell not just hardware, but the most valuable thing in the world — time and guaranteed results.
For an engineer, this is akin to magic. The sleepless nights spent debugging the connection between the controller and the engine disappear. The headache of incompatible protocols and sudden failures goes away. What remains is pure creativity — designing the machine itself, rather than painstakingly selecting its "insides."
Of course, this is not a magic pill for everyone. Complex, unique projects still require custom solutions. But for a huge range of standard tasks, from packaging to positioning, this is a real revolution. It makes advanced technologies available to a wider range of companies that do not have multi-million dollar budgets and years of R&D.
And the most interesting thing is that this approach is also changing the labor market. Demand is shifting from narrow specialists capable of configuring one specific sensor to versatile engineers who can comprehensively manage projects using ready-made, reliable modules. And it is precisely such versatile professionals who are increasingly being sought through specialized platforms like jobtorob.com .
It turns out that the future of robotics lies not only in creating artificial intelligence, but also in the simple desire to make an engineer's life a little easier. So that he could focus on the great things instead of finding the right cable.