SUMMARYIn recent years, the reduction of total cost of ownership (TCO) from system architecture to start-up, operation and maintenance has risen rapidly with the demand for factory automation (FA). But due to the complexity and combination of functions of machines and devices, and to progress in meeting high-speed and high-accuracy demands, networking of controllers and amplifiers has come into use. However, conventional servo networks have had various problems in TCO reduction. The servo network proposed in this paper can obtain position and speed information from counterpart amplifiers in the synchronous control by communication between amplifiers, which is conventionally unattainable. Compared with the conventional system, high-speed, high-accuracy operation can be realized with the new synchronous compensation control utilizing data transferred between amplifiers, and improvements in operating productivity were verified with an actual machine. Conventional systems used multiple electrical signals, but the new network realizes optical communication over only a single pair of optical cables using optically isolated circuit technology, and it has also proved effective for increasing productivity in the setup and maintenance. C⃝ 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electr Eng Jpn, 190(4): 46-55, 2015; Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com).