Telescopic sliding systems are one of those quietly brilliant engineering solutions that often go unnoticed and unappreciated ...

They guide, support, locate, and accurately move machinery components in automated industries. Each rolling element slide has its own advantages and drawbacks Ed Keane, Del-Tron Precision Inc., Bethel ...

The MDrivePlus integrated motor and electronics are combined with screw-driven linear slides to provide linear slide systems that are well suited for applications including lab and medical test ...

The linear slide single edge guide system is effective in applications where two rails are required to run in parallel and can be run over large distances.

We don’t know much more than what we see with [Kounotori_DIY]’s battery loader design (video embedded below) but it just looks so cool we had to share. Watch it in action, it’ll explain itself. Before ...

New acoustic sensors from THK GmbH, Ratingen, Germany, promise to diagnose damage to linear guides and ballscrews without having to dismantle machine tools. In addition, the Acoustic Emission (AE) ...

Engineers and manufacturers are increasingly turning to robots for increased productivity, and key to these engineering marvels are linear guides. Martin Ahner, head of norelem ACADEMY, discusses the ...

In recent years, semiconductor labs have become billion-dollar enterprises. Accuracy in the automated testing of the wafers they produce is particularly In recent years, semiconductor labs have become ...

Offering nanometer-level motion precision for surface profiling, wafer inspection, photonics alignment, and precision manufacturing tasks. PI USA Provides Engineered Precision Gantry Positioning ...

We’ve seen plenty of motor projects, but [Jeremy]’s DIY Tubular Linear Motor is a really neat variety of stepper motor in a format we certainly don’t see every day. It started as a design experiment ...