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Dual Rail Four Slider Belt Driven High Speed Long Stroke Linear Guide Rail
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Factory Ball Screw Enclosed Linear Motion Guide Good Repeatability and Accuracy
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Miniature Aluminum Profile Small and Light Linear Rail Guide with Stepper Motor
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100-2000mm Travel Length Ball Screw Linear Motion System
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High Perfomance Ball Screw Automated Linear XY Table
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CE FCC RoHS IP66 Certification Linear XYZ Motion System
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High Torque Low Noise Ball Screw 3-axis Linear Motion Guide
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High Rigidity 120mm Width Linear Positioning Table
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100kg Load Capacity Ball Screw Cartesian Robot
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Free Shipping Multi-axis Ball Screw Linear Motion Stage
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Wholesale Factory Supplier Linear Module with Servo Motor
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Electric Motorized Linear Actuator Positioning System
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Dustproof Linear Motion System Cartesian Robot for Milling Machine Laser Robotic Arm
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High Precision Ball Screw Linear Motion Guide
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Heavy Duty Compact Ball Screw Linear axis robot arm
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High Speed Belt Driven Linear Actuator with Stepper Motor
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Long Stroke Belt Driven Aluminium Linear Guide Rail
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OEM Nema 34 Ball Screw Linear Module for Palletizing Cutting Drilling
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Accept Customization Ball Screw Linear XY Table
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Industrial Robot Machinized Ball Screw Linear Guideway
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A Selection Guide for Linear Systems
Belt driven, Ball screw driven, Rack and pinion driven, Linear motor driven, Pneumatic driven systems. Gone are the days when machine designers and builders had to choose between constructing their own linear system from scratch or settling for a limited range of pre-assembled systems that, in most cases, were an imperfect fit for their application. Manufacturers today offer systems based on a...
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Linear Encoders Improve Accuracy
Linear encoders boost accuracy by correcting errors downstream of mechanical linkages. Linear encoders track axis position without intermediate mechanical elements. The encoders even measure transfer errors from mechanical linkages (such as rotary-to-linear mechanical devices), which helps controls correct for errors originating from the machine. Thus, this feedback lets controls account for a...
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How to Get Predictable and Reliable Linear Motion
Accuracy and repeatability, Capacity, Travel length, Usage, Ambient environment, Timing, Orientation, Rates. Here are some tips on how to correctly specify and size a linear-motor-driven actuator using the mnemonic ACTUATOR—short for accuracy, capacity, travel length, usage, ambient environment, timing, orientation and rates—to remember all the key parameters Choosing the right actuator for a ...
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Motion Trends Update: Positioning Stages Lead Charge to Pragmatic Design
Horizontal and vertical Linear Stage Z Axis Positioning Stage Positioning stages today can satisfy specific and demanding output requirements. That’s because customized integration and the latest in motion programming now help stages get incredible accuracy and synchronization. What’s more, advances in mechanical parts and motors are helping OEMs plan for better multi-axis positioning-stage in...
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How to Shrink the Size of a Linear Actuator
Solution for X-Y stages and small machining centers, such as 3D printers. Linear actuators come in a wide range of sizes, but over the past several yeas, manufacturers have been emphasizing more and more compact footprints. But no matter how small the actuator, the addition of a motor can make the overall size of the complete system too large for space-constrained applications. Some manufactur...
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Motion Trends Update: Positioning Stages Lead Charge to Pragmatic Design
The main advances in motion over the last decade have occurred in control systems and electronics. Positioning stages today can satisfy specific and demanding output requirements. That’s because customized integration and the latest in motion programming now help stages get incredible accuracy and synchronization. What’s more, advances in mechanical parts and motors are helping OEMs plan for b...
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How to Choose Linear Guide Accuracy
Mounting considerations, Single block on a single rail, Multiple blocks on a single rail, Multiple bearings on multiple rails. When choosing a recirculating linear guide, there are several criteria that need to be specified, including size, preload and accuracy. And although the term “accuracy” is often used in a generic sense, when referring to recirculating ball or roller guides, it designat...
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XY tables: How do they differ from Cartesian and gantry systems?
A common XY table design uses crossed roller slides and a ball screw drive for very high travel and positioning accuracies. There are many ways to build linear systems for motion in the X, Y, and/or Z directions – also known as Cartesian coordinates. The terms we generally use to refer to these systems depend on how the axes are assembled, where the load is positioned, and to some extent, what...
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High Speed Linear Actuators: What Qualifies Them as High Speed?
Speed is primarily dependent on the drive mechanism. Like many terms used in the linear motion industry – “heavy duty,” “miniature,” and “corrosion-resistant,” to name a few – there is no industry standard that specifies what constitutes a “high speed” linear actuator. Nevertheless, there are some general guidelines that manufacturers follow when classifying and marketing their actuators as hi...
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Linear Guides, Power Transmission, Actuators See Unexpected Applications
Linear-actuation trend is to more precision. Our 2020 survey of the industry indicates an unabated trend towards more automation of previously static or manually tended systems. Key to these new offerings is installation simplicity for OEMs and end users of linear components for linear axes … as well as positioning stages and Cartesian robots. In fact, Cartesian robots (also called linear robo...
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Top 5 Industrial Robotics Applications
Assembly, Picking and packing, Material removal, Welding, Painting. From food processing to automotive production, industrial robots are becoming ubiquitous. Highly-automated and programmable, these machines execute repetitive tasks with high precision, reliability and throughput.Due to these features, industrial robots have become critical in many manufacturing processes. 1. Assembly Industri...
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What To Do When Your Motion System Throws You a Curve
How Ring and Track Systems Stack Up Guide-wheel based ring and track systems are more compact and offer better positioning accuracy and more options for cargo carrying positions than alternative conveyor systems for curvilinear applications. In the ongoing drive to reduce production costs, one trend at manufacturing facilities is grouping production work stations as closely as possible to mini...
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Five Things to Consider When Choosing a Linear Actuator
Stroke Length, Speed, Accuracy, Mounting, Maintenance. You’re working on an application that requires linear motion – maybe it’s a pick-and-place assembly system, a packaging line, or a gantry for material transfer – but designing your own actuator from scratch, sourcing the various parts, mounting and aligning the components, and implementing a maintenance system is not an effective use of yo...
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How to Specify, Select and Apply Linear Ball Screw Drives
Ball return systems, Ball screw selection and Ball screw lubrication. Specifying the right ball screw for a given application will ensure machine accuracy, repeatability and life while minimizing the total cost of ownership. A ball screw drive translates rotational motion to linear motion or vice versa and can apply or withstand high thrust loads–upward of 750,000 lb static capacity using a Ø6...
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How to Estimate Your Linear Actuator Needs with Minimal Application Data?
High moment loads can dictate the use of a dual-rail style linear actuator. Selecting an actuator based on approximations of the performance requirements is arguably more risky than choosing a linear guide or drive with minimal application info. But still, the situation is quite common where a designer or engineer needs a reasonable estimate of the system that will work best for their applicat...
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Does my system need high accuracy or repeatability (or both)?
Component selection and machine design affect system accuracy and repeatability. Before we answer this question, let’s define accuracy and repeatability for linear systems. 【Accuracy】 In linear motion, there are two generally categories of accuracy – positioning accuracy and travel accuracy. Positioning accuracy specifies the difference between the system’s target position and the actual pos...
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What is sub-divisional error (SDE) in linear encoders?
Accuracy of the interpolation. To determine the position of a linear axis, an encoder read head travels along a scale and “reads” changes in light (for optical encoders) or magnetic field (for magnetic types). As the read head registers these changes, it produces sine and cosine signals that are shifted 90 degrees from each other (referred to as “quadrature signals”). These analog sine and cos...
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Linear Systems for Nanopositioning
Piezo actuators, Voice coil actuators, Linear motor stages. When we talk about linear motion, we typically discuss applications where the travel distance is at least a few hundred millimeters, and the required positioning is in the range of a few tenths of a millimeter. And for these requirements, guides and drives with recirculating bearings are a good fit. Case in point: the lead deviation f...
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FAQ: What types of linear encoders are there and how do I choose?
Absolute or incremental, Optical or magnetic. Linear encoders monitor linear movement and provide position feedback in the form of electrical signals. In servo driven systems, linear encoders supply the precise position of the load, typically in addition to the speed and direction feedback provided by the motor’s rotary encoder. For stepper driven systems, which typically operate in open-loop ...
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What To Do When Your Motion System Throws You a Curve
Guide-wheel based ring and track systems are more compact and offer better positioning accuracy and more options for cargo carrying positions than alternative conveyor systems for curvilinear applications. In the ongoing drive to reduce production costs, one trend at manufacturing facilities is grouping production work stations as closely as possible to minimize material movement and to conser...
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Positioning stages and gantries — new trends in integration approaches
The linear, rotary, XY, or vertical-lift stage integrates motor, drive, and controller. There’s demand for motion designs offering simplicity or turnkey operation, so component suppliers are now doing much more integration for OEMs and plant engineers. Nowhere is this more evident than in the way today’s positioning stages, rotary tables, and gantry setups are built. These quickly connect elec...
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Simple support structure improves warehouse packaging efficiency
An improvement in packaging efficiency required attention to ergonomics, ease of assembly, and cost efficiency. Automation is changing how traditional distribution centers operate as companies search for new ways to maximize their efficiency, increase order accuracy and fulfill customer demand. When it comes to automated technology, most people tend to think about robots, automated guide vehic...
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What is an LED Matrix Screen?
High-end LED Billboard Subversives. The dynamic ups and downs of each module of the fuyu LED matrix screen combine with the video screen to form different creative combinations. The terminator of two-dimensional plane advertising leads the epochal wave of media replacement and advertising appreciation. Product definition of fuyu LED matrix screen: The LED matrix screen is composed of several i...
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How to estimate your linear actuator needs with minimal application data
Load, Accuracy, Speed and Travel. Choosing linear motion components during the development phase of a project has been a source of frustration for designers and application engineers for decades—especially when it comes to complex subassemblies such as linear actuators. Consider for a moment the influence that a linear actuator has on the overall machine design. First of all, in an actuator, t...
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Which type of linear actuator is best for thrust forces?
Electromechanical designs in motion control applications. When an application requires pure thrust forces, the best type of linear actuator is often a rod-style actuator. Also referred to as “thrust actuators” and (when a motor is integrated) “electric actuators,” these electromechanical devices excel at providing axial, or thrust, forces for pushing, pulling, or holding loads. Although their ...
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Linear Actuators: the Make vs. Buy Decision
Business evaluation, Manufacturing and assembly requirements, Customer support needs. With the range of linear actuators on the market, it’s becoming easier for machine builders and end users to find a standard or “customized standard” product that meets even the most unique application requirements. But there are still times when it makes sense, from a financial or technical standpoint, to de...
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Actuator Basics: Five Different Technologies Integrated into One Package
Motive power source, means of transmission, bearing or guidance, frame or support structure, position feedback (in most cases). Another area of Mechatronics that is very confusing is the area of actuators. The problem is that you can buy actuators that are assemblies of several components, or you can buy the components, and they’re all called actuators. This is traditionally an ambiguous area ...
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What are some considerations for linear actuators in contaminated environments?
A typical contaminated environment is shown here. Reliable motion is often difficult to obtain when the operating environment is heavily contaminated with debris, or contains extreme conditions such as a wide temperature range or other environmental factors.The use of machinery for operations such as cutting, welding, and material processing often generates a substantial amount of debris conta...
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High speed linear actuators: What qualifies them as high speed?
Screw diameter, length, or end bearing arrangement. Like many terms used in the linear motion industry – “heavy duty,” “miniature,” and “corrosion-resistant,” to name a few – there is no industry standard that specifies what constitutes a “high speed” linear actuator. Nevertheless, there are some general guidelines that manufacturers follow when classifying and marketing their actuators as hig...
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Can a Linear Actuator Provide the Rigidity and Accuracy of a Linear Stage?
U-shaped linear actuators are constructed with an extruded steel base. Although there are no industry standards that define linear actuators and linear stages, generally accepted terminology indicates that a linear actuator is typically constructed with an aluminum extrusion or base, while a linear stage is typically built on a flat, machined steel or granite base. This distinction impl...
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What is ratcheting in synchronous belt drives?
Proper tension of synchronous belts is the tension at which the belt will transmit the required power without ratcheting when the drive system experiences full load. Synchronous belts (also referred to as toothed, cogged, timing, or high torque belts) use profiled teeth that mesh with a pulley or sprocket to deliver power transmission – most notably for applications that require high torque. W...
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5 Keys to “Mechatronics Made Easy”
Structure, Components, Electronics Wiring, Maintainability. Bringing together mechanical, electrical, programming, and control engineering is not effortless. But integrating technology advances, and focusing on these five areas, can simplify the process and ensure that mechatronics is made easy. Today’s fast paced product development cycles and rapid advances in technology have pushed the need...
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What You Need to Know About Corrosion-resistant Linear Guides
Especially for applications that require FDA or USDA compliance Recirculating ball and roller guides are the backbone of many automation processes and machines, thanks to their high running accuracy, good rigidity, and excellent load capacities — characteristics made possible by the use of high-strength AISI/ASTM 52100 chrome steel (commonly referred to as bearing steel) for the load-bearing p...
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Five Steps to Linear Motor Integration
Typical Configuration of Motion System Design Linear motion is central to many moving machines, and the direct-drive nature of linear motors can simplify overall machine design in these applications. Other benefits include improved stiffness, because linear motors are fixed directly to the load. Integrating these motors (and the peripheral components they require) can seem daunting, but the pr...
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Automated linear-transfer tool trays
Getting high precision and repeatability from production lines Until recently, getting high precision and repeatability from production lines was difficult. But now new systems for automation are eliminating barriers associated with manual handling and assembly of high-quality product. Here we review one such option — the offering known as linear tool tray-transfer systems. Linear tool tray-tr...
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What is racking in gantry systems?
And how can it be avoided… Gantries differ from other types of multi-axis systems (such as Cartesian robots and XY tables) by using two base (X) axes in parallel, with a perpendicular (Y) axis connecting them. While this dual X-axis arrangement provides a wide, stable footprint and allows gantry systems to deliver high load capacity, long travel lengths, and good rigidity, it can also le...
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What causes synchronous belt noise and how can it be reduced?
Slience means faster and longer lifetime. Synchronous belts are common in motion systems, providing smoother operation and better high-speed performance than chains and lacking the problems of slipping and stretching that can plague V-belts in precision applications. But one downfall of synchronous, or toothed, belts is the noise they produce. Although quieter than a chain drive, a synchronous...
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Take the burden out of managing misalignment in linear motion systems
Guard against causes of bearing failure. No one wants a linear bearing to fail prematurely. While many factors can threaten a bearing’s expected life, designers of industrial machines must especially guard against alignment errors between the bearing rails and moving elements. Not only is misalignment one of the most common causes of bearing failure, it is also among the most costly and comple...
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Different Drive Concepts For Different Machine Tool Motions
Main Drives Main drives are predominantly closed-loop controlled, electric synchronous, and asynchronous motors. Their applications include kit or housed motors for use in turning, milling and grinding machines as well as in machining centers. The traditional spindle drives with housed motors – mostly air-cooled – are also popular as main drives. In comparison with motor spindles they are less...
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Rules for Actuator and Guide Alignment in Linear Motion Systems
Following a few simple guidelines for designing linear motion systems can improve system performance and actuator life. Many automated machines rely on linear guidance components, such as profiled rail, round rail or other rolling or sliding bearing structures, to guide and support the moving elements of equipment. Additionally, many times these moving elements are driven by some type of linea...
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What types of motion can you create with multi-axis linear systems?
Point-to-point motion, Blended motion, Contoured motion. For many tasks, multi-axis linear systems — Cartesian robots, X-Y tables, and gantry systems — travel in straight lines to achieve quick point-to-point movements. But some applications, such as dispensing and cutting, require the system to follow a circular path or a complex shape that can’t be created by simple lines and arcs. Fortun...
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Linear Motion Systems: Only as Strong as Weakest Link
Review five links in the chain of design elements so critical to precision operation. A linear motion system is only as strong as the most compromising links in its chain of mechanical and electromechanical elements. Understanding each component and feature (and its impact on design output) improves decisions and the odds the final design fully meets application demands. After all, system back...
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6 things small manufacturers need to know about Cartesian robots
Load, Accuracy, Stroke, Controller, Driver and Supplier. 1. They handle heavier loads—A 20 kg payload is no problem for a Cartesian robot, which makes money savings possible by downsizing mechanics, using smaller components and less complex controls. 2. They fit tough orientations—A Cartesian robot is able to achieve the required precision when space is tight. 3. They widen travel range—Cartes...
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Doing the Heavy Lifting: When Cartesian Robots Make the Most Sense
Terminator Size Robot is Ok? Compared to a Cartesian robot, a SCARA or six-axis system will generally deliver higher performance out of the box at a higher cost and with greater programming requirements, but with a smaller footprint, less weight and less rigid arm extension. On the other hand, a Cartesian system provides building blocks to create a solution that costs less and involves fewer e...
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What are the main types of linear actuators?
Belt-driven/Screw-driven/Pneumatically driven/Rack-and-pinion driven/Linear motor driven 【Belt-driven and screw-driven actuators】 Although belt and screw drives are different technologies, it makes sense to put them in the same category because they are the two most common types of electromechanical actuators. Most manufacturers of linear actuators offer both belt and screw-driven options. B...
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What’s the Difference Between Serial Kinematics and Parallel Kinematics in Multi-axis Motion Design?
We are solving the positioning problem. Today’s positioning tables and stages include hardware and software that’s more customized than ever to satisfy specific output requirements. That’s made for motion designs that move accurately through even complicated multi-axis commands. Precision feedback is key to such functionality — often taking the form of optical or (electronics-augmented) magnet...
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A Selection Guide for Linear Systems
Multi-axis Stages and Tables Gone are the days when machine designers and builders had to choose between constructing their own linear system from scratch or settling for a limited range of pre-assembled systems that, in most cases, were an imperfect fit for their application. Manufacturers today offer systems based on a range of drive mechanisms—ball screws, belts, rack and pinions, linear mo...
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Robotics or Motion Control? That is the question.
10 Questions to Help Decide. Though the lines can often be blurred, robotics and motion control are not the same thing. They are closely related in many ways, but robots lean towards more “pre-engineered” solutions while motion control leans towards more modular solutions. This small but significant distinction poses a number of aspects for decision makers to consider when choosing the ...
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Tips for selecting pre-engineered Cartesian robots
3 Steps to Design Your Linear Positioning System Cartesian robots operate in two or three axes along the Cartesian coordinate system of X, Y, and Z. While SCARA and 6-axis robots are more widely recognized, Cartesian systems can be found in nearly every industrial application imaginable, from semiconductor manufacturing to woodworking equipment. And it’s no surprise that Cartesians are so wide...
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What are Planar Errors and How Do They Affect the Accuracy of a Linear Motion System?
Linear, Angular and Planar Errors. In an ideal world, a linear motion system would exhibit perfectly flat, straight motion and reach the intended position with zero error every time. But even the highest precision linear guides and drives (screws, rack and pinions, belts, linear motors) have some errors due to machining tolerances, handling, mounting, and even the manner in which they’re appli...
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