How To Evaluate Actuators For Washdown In Food And Beverage Applications.
Materials, design, fabrication and maintenance affect actuator performance and compliance with food safety guidelines in food and beverage processing and packaging. Read our white paper to learn how to select the most appropriate actuators for these challenging environments. Click here to download this white paper.
Crash-free Linear Motion
One of the greatest threats to the long life of a linear motion system usually occurs on its very first stroke. How do you know when a linear bearing has reached its end of travel? When the carriage hits the wall. At least, that is how the old engineering joke goes. But in reality, crashes [...]
Understanding Linear Bearing Speed & Acceleration
Engineers focused on fast, light automation systems may pay too much attention to speed specs when acceleration is what really counts. Look through the specifications of any linear bearing, and you’ll come across a maximum speed. It’s an important spec, but not not nearly as important as many engineers think it is. Speed does play [...]
Managing Misalignment In Linear Motion Systems
Of all the factors that contribute to the premature failure of linear bearings, misalignment ranks near the top of the list. Here’s how to cope without breaking the bank. When design engineers evaluate linear bearings, they always ask about performance attributes such as speed, load capacity and lifecycle. Then they want to know the price. [...]
Smooth Motion For Laser Glass Engraving
A two-rail linear motion system improves alignment and contamination resistance while lowering installed cost. The top guide system in this design uses a Rollon T Series Rail to support the bulk of the engraving head’s axial loads from above. The bottom bearing uses a Rollon U Series Rail to help guide the head precisely while [...]
Reducing Linear Bearing Wear
Contamination and poor lubrication practices can shorten the life of linear bearings. Here is a look at how to avoid both problems. To get the longest working life out of a linear bearing, keep it clean and well lubricated. This common-sense advice may sound easy enough to follow. Yet in the real world of roundthe- [...]
Linear Motion Solutions For Trouble-Free Palletizing
Lubed-for-life bearings that eliminate misalignment problems keep palletizers up and running. With their round-the-clock operating schedules and demanding uptime requirements, the palletizing systems used in packaging plants can challenge the reliability of even the best linear motion components. Linear bearings are no exception, especially when inadequate lubrication or alignment problems cause premature wear. Click here [...]
Linear Bearings For CNC
Doors and auxiliary axes on machine tools need different linear motion components than spindles. Doors, in particular, are an axis that are often designed with less-than-ideal motion components. From an accuracy standpoint, door motion may seem like an open and shut case, but they do present some challenging design issues of their own. They tend [...]
Medical Moves
Linear bearings play a crucial, yet under-appreciated role, in medical imaging systems. Usually, the bearings are used to guide and support the motorized beds that position patients under the system’s scanning elements, though they are sometimes used for auxiliary motion axes, too. Click here to download this white paper.
