TECHNOLOGY BLOG
Video: Choosing Linear Guides For Medical Machines Designing complex motion systems for medical and lab automation equipment has gotten harder. To keep pace, it’s important to choose the right motion control components. This includes linear guides that are miniature, smooth and maintenance-free.… Continue Reading
New White Paper Examines Key Considerations In Miniature Linear Bearings In the semiconductor, medical, surgical, robotics and precision machinery industries, components must sometimes be sized to the smallest dimensions possible to meet demanding performance criteria. When bearing sizes range from 1 to 42 mm, load… Continue Reading
Case Study Applies Curiosity’s Mars Mission To Linear Motion The launch, landing and overall mission of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is one of the most daring and successful space exploration endeavors ever undertaken. MSL’s Curiosity rover has already surpassed its 23-month mission target, … Continue Reading
Linear Guides For The Next Generation Of Medical Machines Not long ago, the motion systems used in medical and lab automation equipment had technical requirements that were easy to satisfy. These lightly loaded applications generally required simple point-to-point moves with low to moderate positioning… Continue Reading
White Paper Discusses C-Lube Technology For Maintenance Free Linear Guides Walk through any plant that uses linear motion systems, and you can often see maintenance workers, grease gun in hand, applying lubrication to linear guides. And why shouldn’t they? Under-lubricated guides can wear excessively, which… Continue Reading
White Paper Discusses Reliable Linear Motion For Packaging Machines In the productivity-driven packaging industry, there are many possible sources of downtime. You can eliminate many of them by selecting failure-resistant linear motion components such as robust linear guides and positioning tables. These parts integrate… Continue Reading
Materials Options Improve Miniature Bearing Performance Miniature bearings are often supplied “as is” with very few options available when it comes to material choices. This lack of choice probably won't pose any problems in lightly-loaded, intermittent-use applications. But having a wide… Continue Reading
Cam Followers, No Lube Required Metal-on-metal wear is one of the main causes of maintenance and downtime in cam-driven machines. Unless you want to deal with the expense of pitted cam surfaces or seized cam followers, you’ll have to adhere… Continue Reading
Miniature Bearings Without Compromise When motion control components get smaller, the engineering challenges get bigger. Consider miniature linear bearings for instance. In bearing sizes under 25-mm, challenges related to long-term maintenance, bearing load capacity and design flexibility become more… Continue Reading
IKO Positioning Table Plays Crucial Role in Pyrolysis Measuring Wildcat Technologies makes laboratory and well site pyrolysis instrumentation for the oil and gas industry. For a crucial role in its flagship HAWK (Hydrocarbon Analysis With Kinetics) instrument, the company uses precision positioning tables from… Continue Reading
