On June 18, 2013, National Instruments Corporation (NI) announced the expansion of its motion control offering, which is subsequent to a collaboration deal with Kollmorgen. The offerings include drives, motors, linear positioners, gearheads, cables, and accessories. NI claimed that the collaboration between the two companies makes the design of sophisticated machinery and equipment easier. NI provides a variety of motion hardware to help engineers create customized and highly configurable motion systems tightly integrated with the Company's broad measurement and control I/O portfolio. Kollmorgen extends this offering to include servo and stepper technology across a variety of drive and motor product families. "NI reconfigurable controllers and Kollmorgen servo system technology provide a one-two punch that can knock out your toughest engineering challenges," said Ray Butler, Vice President and General Manager at Kollmorgen.