TECHNOLOGY BLOG
Improve Your Cam Follower’s Life and Keep Maintenance Costs Down When you need your cam follower to operate reliably over a long lifetime, lubrication and sealing are critical. In harsh industrial environments, threats such as dust and particles can shorten a cam follower’s lifetime, and… Continue Reading
IKO Motion Products Drive Efficiency and Productivity in the Automated Lab Automation can provide a host of benefits for the life science industry. Researchers and technicians can perform more tests and experiments in less time while eliminating repetitive tasks, which minimizes the risk of human error… Continue Reading
Small Positioning Tables Can Deliver Big Performance When you need a fast, responsive positioning mechanism for semiconductor equipment, inspection instruments or assembly machines, choosing the right one can be difficult. Finding a linear positioning table that exhibits the high accuracy and thrust… Continue Reading
Solve Cage Creep While Handling Loads In Any Direction Smoothly and Accurately Over time, a linear motion rolling guide’s cage may creep to one side, causing multiple problems that can lead to a costly machine shutdown. This video presents a crossed roller way that solves cage creep… Continue Reading
Florida Students and IKO Linear Guides Shine in Robotics Competition A team of middle- and high-school students in Gibsonton, Florida are showing off their math and science skills by designing, building and programming a competitive robot using IKO International linear guides. With IKO in their… Continue Reading
Crossed Roller Bearings Give Physical Therapy Exoskeletal Robot a Helping Hand Each year, approximately 700,000 people survive a stroke. As deaths caused by stroke decrease and our population ages, an ever-increasing number of stroke survivors will require rehabilitation in order to regain independence and quality of… Continue Reading
Reliable Motion Reinvents the Warehouse Automated systems and machines are revolutionizing storage and retrieval systems to support the demand for faster processes and efficiency gains. Sophisticated conveyors, sorters, palletizers and robotic systems can move product more quickly and reliably than… Continue Reading
Select and Configure IKO Linear Guides Online Tired of sifting through dozens of catalogs and web pages when specifying linear guides? Then try our new online selection and configuration tool, to determine the perfect IKO guide for your project. To use the… Continue Reading
Extended Life Specification Machined Needle Roller Bearings Provide Performance and a Longer Operating Life When you need a small, lightweight bearing to rotate a heavy load with minimal friction, machined type needle roller bearings are often the appropriate choice. Thanks to their low sectional height, outer ring with stable… Continue Reading
Specify Linear Roller Motion Guides to Manage Deflections Machine designers have come to rely on roller type linear motion rolling guides for their excellent load handling, accuracy and rigidity. This type of guide is able to deliver these benefits because their slide units… Continue Reading
