Linear Guides

When selecting a linear guide, your criteria should include more than just the hardware. The company behind the component also goes a long way toward your ultimate satisfaction. For example, COVID-19, market dynamics or a customer’s special requirements can impact the supply chain, so it’s...

Lasers have become an invaluable way to mark and identify workpieces across a wide range of industries. The dental industry is no exception. Laser technology applies barcodes and other identifiers to casts used to make impressions of a patient’s teeth in order to prescribe implants, alignment...

Electronic arrow boards in traffic control trucks are meant to be highly visible to drivers approaching highway work zones and other hazards. When not in use, however, arrow boards are meant to stay out of sight. While some traffic control trucks stow arrow boards horizontally, the circuit boards...

When implementing a linear guide or actuator into a system, you will likely have high expectations for how well the linear components will perform and how long they will last. Meeting those expectations, however, requires careful product selection and preventative measures against various threats...

Look inside a CNC machine, and you’ll find sophisticated recirculating ball linear bearings performing the mission-critical motion tasks. But when you go beyond the spindle and essential cutting or milling components, you’ll find auxiliary axes that don't have the high accuracy and precision...

80,000 km of maintenance-free operation and a very low noise level: these are the main strengths of Rollon's Speedy Rail self-supporting linear rails.These are self-supporting and self-aligning rails composed of extruded aluminum profiles with deep hard anodization and steel bearings coated with...

In the filming of a soccer match, details are fundamental: the images must ensure that the spectator can see every moment of the game, the players must be followed in their fast movements, in good and bad weather, even in the rain, so that those watching from home do not miss a single emotion.To...

The US Special Vehicles Company (SPEVCO), based in Pfafftown, North Carolina, has established itself as an innovative company, with some strong problem solving skills, in the specialty vehicle industry. In fact, it's not uncommon to see their installations during big-name events across the US,...

SAS Automation has developed a new clamp for the adaptive handling of bags of different sizes by implementing the rails by Compact Rail, a solution with a high life cycle, robust and resistant to contamination.