A wide variety of industries operate factories with large-format manufacturing lines, creating a need for long-travel motion axes and transfer robots. Some of these gantry and Cartesian robots can ...

Electronic preloading of rack-and-pinion drives yields backlash-free motion with minimal friction, improving precision and efficiency. • Rack-and-pinion actuators can have accelerations and speeds ...

Motors and gear trains with micrometer dimensions and powered by light are fabricated using semiconductor lithography and ...

The option for the Uhing RG linear drives enables extremely fine adjustment to the linear pitch of the drive unit. Related To: Amacoil, Inc. Using the new control knob option, the pitch may be ...

Essentially, a guide wheel is a ball bearing that has a special shaped outer race. The inner and outer races of ball bearings are a framework with a groove for the balls to rest in. Burke explained ...