The carriages or slides utilized to provide highly accurate translational motion for determining machines or optical quality machine tools present unique challenges to design engineers. All decisions ...

How do bearings and slides contribute to productivity in today's motion-centric automation environment? Matt • igus: An important development in recent times has been the emergence of self-lubricating ...

Rank Pneumo has been attempting to develop machine slides that can deliver a high level of precision and thus help enhance the performance of its diamond grinding and turning machines. Following ...

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Axis errors rob machine tools of the necessary accuracy for the jobs to be run. Luckily, though, two common position-measuring systems prevent this from happening. However, deciding which one should ...