153 press releases : Linear Guides, Positioning, Bearings

Aerotech has introduced a completely new line of Cartesian ‘T-style’ positioning robots based upon its PRO series medium precision linear positioning stages. The new range, named Cartesius, is a highly configurable positioning system with a single axis base and an open payload work area that suits many automation applications including pick and place, assembly, automated test and dispensing station...

Zaber Technologies is proud to be manufacturing motion control products for Laser 2000. As a specialist distributor to the photonics market, Laser 2000 is committed to excellence in the quality of service and products that they provide to customers throughout Europe. They are the largest European source of photonic's products for industry and research: * Lasersources * Laser Micromachin...

New High Power Linear Drive, Pure Analog Throughput for Very High Motor Resolution San Luis Obispo, CA – 6 Jun 2009 – The TA333 High Power Linear Drive is the newest addition to the Trust Automation line of high performance drives. The TA333 drive features a true Class-AB linear amplifier with pure analog throughput at currents up to 25A. Highly configurable, the drive can be used with a brushl...

Aerotech’s new Soloist SC spindle controller is an integrated control, drive and power supply for high accuracy single axis speed control applications. With dual 32 MHz encoder input capability and speed up to 30,000 rpm, the Soloist SC can return a velocity regulation specification of better than 0.0001%. To maintain such high precision, the Soloist SC makes full use of Aerotech’s linear amplif...

The successful and efficient operation of many production and treatment processes is dependent upon the reliability of Centrifugal pumps. Accounting for about 80% of the UK market, alone, these pumps are used for a variety of applications; ranging from the provision of cooling fluids during the manufacturing process, to the removal of wastewater. Because Centrifugal pumps are so central to all t...

In the continuous flow manufacture of its lighting products Whitecroft Lighting Ltd employs many automated systems one of which is a robot for automatic direct wiring of standard components. Installed twelve years ago, this robot received a new wiring head and software in 2006. And last year it was fitted with a new rotary table, supplied by HepcoMotion®, the benefit of which has been connection ...

GSF Slides, the UK’s leading supplier and manufacture of telescopic slides and tilt systems, announced the launch of the Interfron range of backpack and hydraulic power units for the emergency and blue light industries, earlier this week. Indeed the range of battery powered backpacks are unique in the respect that it gives emergency crews complete freedom from power suppliers; no hydraulic ...

Stemming from PBC Linear's Cam Roller Technology (CRT), V-Guide systems provide the end user with highly economical, smooth and quiet linear motion. V-Guides are designed to last, and have been used in several applications in environments ranging from mild to harsh. The V-Guide system encompasses precision-grade rails, wheels and bushings. Induction hardened, super finished and exclusively grou...

Aerotech has released a new range of long-travel XY Cartesian gantry systems with exceptional specifications for high throughput/high precision contouring. With velocity to 3 m/sec and acceleration to 5 g, the new AGS15000 combines direct-drive linear servomotors and high load capacity linear motion guide bearings in a planar open frame design that is adaptable for a wide range of applications. Fou...

The tried-and-tested parallel kinematics hexapod systems from Physik Instrumente (PI) provide precise positioning in six axes with precisions below 1 µm. The new miniature M-810 hexapod takes up only minimal installation space. With a diameter of only 10 cm and a height of 118 mm it provides travel ranges up to 40 mm in the XY-plane and up to 13 mm in the Z-direction. The high-precision brushless...

A Hexapod is a parallel kinematic motion device that provides six degrees of freedom: X, Y, Z, pitch, roll, and yaw. Hexapods are well known as effective solutions to complex motion applications that demand high load capacity and accuracy in up to six independent axes. Yet, they still have the image of being complex and highly priced. Now, Newport is the first company to introduce a Hexapod that is...

The reasons why HepcoMotion is so widely specified for marine and offshore engineering projects will be clearly demonstrated on the company’s stand at Offshore Europe ‘09. Stainless steel and corrosion resistant linear motion systems, a new heavy duty addition, proven circular and continuous motion products and the ability to design and manufacture complete sub-systems continue to give HepcoMotion...

These engineering elements are needed to support shafts in combination with MiniTec linear ball bearings OP or housing unit type ... OP. The standard length of our shaft supports is 600 mm, and the length of the shaft may be up to 6000 mm WU... assembled, without bores WUG... assembled, with bores WUW... with fixed shaft and bores

Aerotech has completed and fully launched its low-cost PRO series linear stage range and can now offer a total of 68 standard models with travel from 50 mm to 1500 mm in a choice of four stage widths from 115 mm to 280 mm for high throughput, medium precision positioning. The modular range features Aerotech’s well proven hard cover/side-seal system that provides entire stage protection for arduous ...

For high speed precision, long-lasting performance and smooth linear guidance, PBC Linear’s Redi-Rail® linear guides are the answer. Redi-Rail® is designed as a perfect linear motion solution, and has been utilized to accomplish several critical tasks; such as automation, machine transfer and material handling applications. End joinable for long length applications, the Redi-Rail® guide rails en...

A short explanation about the new website Thomas Regout has a new website. Since 1 June 2008, the department of Telescopic slides became a separate entity, named Thomas Regout International BV. The need for a separate, updated and restyled website grew. Today, the new website is online and fully functioning. To make the use of this website as accessible as possible, we drew up the following gu...

For the second year in a row, Thomas Regout kept its title as one of Netherlands’ best managed companies. The award “50 best managed companies” is granted by Deloitte. The strategy and management of the companies are the primary focus during this competition. But the financial results are taken into consideration as well. During the competition we presented our vision on multiple management...

Ingenia-CAT has developed an antenna positioning system based on two Mercury digital servo drive controllers for the European Space Agency (ESA). The antennas were steerable in azimuth by brushless permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSM) controlled through Mercury servo drives. The onboard computer interfaced with servo drives via RS232. The system allowed for two independent rotational m...

HepcoMotion® has an exceptionally wide range of products to cater for every linear motion need. That presents any website designer with a challenge. It is no easy task creating a framework that is both clean and easy to navigate whilst accommodating comprehensive information on so many products. Nevertheless, that is exactly what has been achieved in the new HepcoMotion® website. The site has...

OWIS® now offers most of its opto-mechanical components and manual stages in a nonmagnetic version as standard. Exclusively materials with a permeability of μr ≤ 1.01 are used. Thus, there are no timewasting corrections of the field like for example the magnetic field resonance. Light beams can be guided to an experiment or important components can be positioned to the right place wit...