The new Heavy Duty Slide System HDS2 from HepcoMotion® is the iron man of linear motion with system capacities up to 68kN. It has been engineered to provide an exceptionally rugged product to meet increased load and life requirements. In so doing it addresses new markets in heavy materials handling that involve much larger X-Z gantry systems.

HDS2 has retained the best features of its forerunner and incorporated them in a considerably expanded range. It is however a technically superior product to the original Heavy Duty. An important aspect of this is the introduction of specific components that reduce the engineering time required by the customer to get the system up and running.

These components include larger manufacturer of bearings with increased load capacity, three sizes of construction beam, single edge V professional slides and flat tracks as well as a range of drive options. All this, with an option for stainless steel or corrosion resistant components as standard enables HDS2 to satisfy most high load application needs.

HDS2 can be supplied in component form or as a ready mounted assembly complete with rack driven carriages. Customers can also choose from low cost commercial slides for general use or high precision ground slides for applications where superior accuracy and greater smoothness are pre-requisites.

Slides and tracks are available in single piece construction up to 4 metres long which in itself will save on assembly time. They are supplied in single or double edge format both as V slides or flat track. The V slides have a simple alignment facility to achieve parallelism and the flat tracks overcome the need to align two slides exactly parallel.