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Kendrion presents solutions for safer, more compact and adaptable machines at SPS 2026

Machine builders face an increasingly demanding brief: greater safety, a smaller footprint, lower energy consumption and greater adaptability, often all at once. Growing demands for connectivity, power density, and functional integration make that balancing act even more complex. At SPS 2026, Kendrion will show how these developments translate into practical machine solutions. From November 24 to 26, visitors to its stand in Nuremberg (Hall 4, Booth 418) can explore robotics safety and new brake concepts alongside functional safety in drives, intelligent control technology, and electric process heat. Several innovations will debut around the exhibition.

Is your robot safety architecture future-ready?

For robot manufacturers, implementing new safety requirements is also a question of integration. Kendrion’s open Safety Architecture for Robotics supports the implementation of ISO 10218:2025 by combining a SIL 3/PL e-certified Safety PLC with a robotics library for monitoring movement, force, and safety zones. Its EtherCAT and FSoE architecture allows manufacturers to build on existing platforms and use suitable drives from different suppliers, preserving flexibility in the overall system design.

At drive level, installation space adds another constraint. For the first time, Kendrion’s FIO Drive Control STO integrates its certified Safe Torque Off function into a module just 25 millimeters wide. This removes the need for a separate STO module and keeps functional safety within the compact drive itself.

Built for the next generation of motors.

As power density rises in IE5 synchronous motors, the brake has to keep pace without taking up more space. Kendrion will present a new brake concept developed for this motor generation, with intralogistics and material handling among its intended applications.

With small motors, the design itself often dictates the brake requirements. A second forthcoming innovation addresses this through a configurable platform that can accommodate existing mechanical and electrical specifications. The aim is to adapt the brake to the motor design and reduce the need for a full bespoke development.

Alongside these upcoming developments, the established Slim PM Line shows how a shared brake architecture can accommodate different torque requirements.

Integrating control and induction heating

A standard control platform needs to leave room for the machine’s specific requirements. With Econo, Kendrion uses industrial Raspberry Pi module technology as the foundation, adding application-specific hardware and software. The open architecture supports the transition from an individual machine solution to series production.

Thermal processes bring their own integration demands. The SHS (Small Heating System) brings induction heating to smaller machines and automated processes, with outputs up to two kilowatts. It generates heat directly within the component, while temperature control and fieldbus connectivity link the heating process to the machine’s automation system.

Visitors can explore how these approaches fit their own safety, motor and process requirements in discussion with Kendrion’s specialists at SPS in Nuremberg from November 24 to 26, 2026 (Hall 4, Stand 418).

This year, Kendrion is partnering with coffee specialist Die Barista GmbH and looks forward to engaging conversations over good coffee at its stand.

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Preparing for SPS 2026: Frank Rosenthal (right), Head of Sales at Kendrion INTORQ in Aerzen, and his team during a video shoot focusing on brake solutions for modern motor designs.
At SPS 2026, visitors can discuss their specific requirements for robotics safety, control technology, and industrial brakes directly with Kendrion’s specialists.

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Process heat, straight to the point.

With the new SHS (Small Heating System), Kendrion brings industrial low-temperature induction heating into the power range up to 2 kW. The solution is designed for smaller machines and automated processes, where precise process heat is often generated using slow-reacting or energy-intensive heating systems. Its primary target groups are machine builders and OEMs across the food, packaging, textile, and plastics industries.

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Functional safety built into FIO Drive Control

Kendrion introduces the FIO Drive Control STO, marking its first integration of a SIL 3/PL e-certified Safe Torque Off (STO) function into the modular FIO drive solution. This compact 4-quadrant servo drive for stepper and BLDC motors incorporates the dual-channel STO directly into the module, allowing safe torque shutdown without needing an extra STO module, all within a mere 25 millimeters of width.

Kendrion robotics safety architecture for ISO 10218:2025 compliant industrial robots with SIL3/PLe functional safety.
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Kendrion readies robotics for ISO 10218:2025

Robotics manufacturers, system integrators, and users face the challenge of incorporating the updated requirements of ISO 10218:2025 into future robotics projects. Kendrion's Safety Architecture for Robotics provides an open solution featuring a SIL3/PLe certified Safety PLC paired with a robotics library for kinematic safety functions. The safety controller combines motion, force, and zone monitoring into a single platform, enabling targeted support for future safety requirements. The architecture, which is independent of manufacturers, can be seamlessly integrated into robotics applications that utilize EtherCAT.