Positioning Stages, Slides and Guides Reference Materials

Description: Most stages employ three primary types of guide mechanism for their precision positioning stages. Dovetail, Linear Ball, and Cross Roller guides compose most of the MISUMI product line. Each mechanism ...

Description: Positioning stages are differentiated by the means used to control the position of the stage platform, either by manual control, via a positional knob, or motor control, via a stepper motor. These are ...

Description: Selecting the right stage for your application can seem like a daunting task, especially with the variety available. An engineer might not want to spend too much time determining which stage to use ...

Description: Multi-axis precision motion at the micron or sub-micron level is required in many industrial automation processes as well as in test and metrology applications related to optics, photonics, ...

Description: In any motion system, understanding the type and direction of applied and resultant loads is important for determining bearing life and analyzing deflection. In linear motion systems, we typically use ...

Description: Algorithms, Motorized Fiber Positioners, and Automated Sub-Systems for Silicon Photonics and Optics Alignment ...

Description: How to Consistently Verify the Performance of Nanopositioning Motion Control Equipment ...

Description: The need for higher performance computing and data-communication speed has led to the advent of silicon photonics. In addition, to higher performance, silicon photonics can also reduce the power ...

Description: A manufacturer of a highly precise SLA style 3D printer needed to hold layer resolutions to an exacting level of 10 µm. The mechanical accuracy of the constant-force anti-backlash nut and ...

Description: The irregular work envelopes of traditional jointed articulating arms may require redesign of existing workspaces. SCARA and articulating arm robots might be the most recognizable form of robot on the ...

Description: Multi-axis linear systems come in a variety of designs, with Cartesian, gantry, and XY tables being some of the most common types. While these designs simplify construction and can provide space ...

Description: The first step in any automation project is to clearly define the objective — what process are you trying to accomplish or what output are you trying to produce? Once the process or output is ...

Description: Automation in the manufacturing industry is continuing to grow in demand and can be applied to nearly every application from processing, assembly, inspection to packaging. Gantries and 6-axis ...

Description: Machines that operate on Cartesian coordinate systems have been staples in factories for decades. 3D printers, laser-cutters, and CNC machines are examples of devices that use the same principle as ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: In Part 1 of this post, we looked at various methods of driving the X axes in gantry systems and how the drive method can influence the gantry’s tendency to experience racking. Another factor ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: Designing comprehensive automation for high-speed pick-and-place applications is among the most challenging tasks faced by motion engineers. As robotic systems become more complex and production rates ...

Description: This XZ gantry incorporates a rack drive in the slide, eliminating the need for a separate rack. The Z axis telescopes, useful when overhead height is limited. ...

Description: When positioning-system manufacturers build a gantry system, they typically use special alignment tools during the assembly process to ensure they meet force, precision, and life specifications. Laser ...

Description: Linear motors offer precise positioning and highly dynamic response for many motion-control tasks. For machine tools, these include not only rapid traverse, but slow, constant-speed movement of ...

Description: From packaging and material handling to semiconductor fabrication and automotive assembly, virtually all manufacturing processes incorporate some type of linear motion, and as manufacturers become ...

Description: NANOPOSITIONER APPLICATIONS, UTILITY, AND FUNCTIONALITY OFTEN ARE MISUNDERSTOOD - TO THE DETRIMENT OF RESEARCHERS WHOSE EXPERIMENTS MIGHT BENEFIT FROM THE STABILITY, PRECISION, AND REPEATABILITY THESE ...

Description: Highly precise linear positioning systems, such as those used to focus and scan in measuring and inspection equipment often need two different motion modes ...

Description: Electronic, optic, computer, inspection, automation, and laser industries require diverse positioning-system specifications. No one system is right for all. To ensure that a high-accuracy positioning ...

Description: Electronic, optic, computer, inspection, automation, and laser industries require diverse positioning-system specifications. ...

Description: Building motion actuators and stages from scratch forces designers to order, inventory, and assemble hundreds of parts. It also increases time to market and requires technicians and specialized ...

Description: Motion-control systems consist of three main components: the positioning mechanism, motor drive electronics, and motion controller. Each of these components should be carefully selected but for best ...

Description: Consider supports, guides, drives, and seals when designing a linear system. Know your precision, repeatability, loading, and environmental requirements before starting linear-system design. ...

Description: Load, Accuracy, Stroke, Controller, Driver and Supplier. ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: Drones and crawling robots outfitted with special scanners could help wind blades stay in service longer, which could lower the cost of wind energy at a time when blades are getting bigger, pricier, ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: 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, ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: Positioning stages and tables are used in motion control systems to hold down a work piece and/or to position it for some operation. Stages or tables, whether linear or rotary, are most often complete ...

Description: Positioning stages and tables are used in motion control systems to hold down a work piece and/or to position it for some operation. Stages or tables, whether linear or rotary, are most often complete ...

Description: Linear guides and systems are typically subjected to both linear forces due to downward, upward, and side loads and rotational forces due to overhung loads. Rotational forces - also referred to as ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: Robots don't disappoint. After a manufacturing company buys its first industrial robot installation, it goes back time and time again to buy more to further automation to their factories. Given that ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: If your application calls for a Cartesian robot, you have a wide variety of options, depending on the level of integration you want to undertake. And although pre-engineered Cartesian robots are ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: Palletizers are very powerful and they can have many different functions in different environments. For example, a feed palletizer, which can collect, sort and arrange work products. However, due to ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: Traditional way of manual sorting has high cost, low efficiency, higher pain points, breakage and ball module with intelligent sorting system with the following advantages won the praise of the ...

Description: Cartesian handling systems as serial kinematics have main axes for straight-line motion and auxiliary axes for rotation. The system acts simultaneously as guide, support and drive and must be ...

Description: Careful analysis of the application, including orientation, moment and acceleration, will reveal the load that must be supported. Sometimes, the actual load will vary from the calculated load, so ...

Description: Today's ac servo systems are much different than those built even 10 years ago. Faster processors and higher resolution encoders are enabling manufacturers to implement amazing advances in tuning ...

Description: When you're in the business of manufacturing, it's important to know exactly why you're doing what you're doing and to leave nothing to chance. There are too many resources invested across the entire ...

Description: Cartesian coordinate robot concept: In industrial applications, it can realize automatic control, reprogrammable, multi-functional, multi-degree of freedom, right-angle space between movement freedom, ...

Description: Automated motion guidance systems with heavy-duty load capacities are experiencing a significant increase in demand. One reason for this revolves around the installation of flexible multi-axis robots ...

Description: The rectangular coordinates of the robot's classification(Positioning, Drive, Control and Terminal System of Linear Robot Motion System). ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: Desktop nanoprinter based on a novel, highly scalable, and versatile photolithographic technology and XYZ piezo-driven nanopositioning stage finds applications in photonics, meta-materials, ...

Description: ABTech Manufacturing creates five-axis platform for nanometer/sub-arc second processing around its ultra-precision air bearings and Renishaw SiGNUMTM position encoders. When a leading manufacturer of ...

Description: In order to maintain precision and reliability- the two key factors to the success of industrial processing - motion and positioning equipment has to be designed accordingly. These properties are ...

Description: 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 ...

Description: High accuracy compass Tilt compensation Light weight All solid-state structure 25Hz data refresh rate User-defined heading plane Customizable coordinate system + 5DC power supply voltage range ...

Description: SMI800, developed independently by sz RION, is a wired transmitting handheld monitor. It could receive data and display value of all RION's sensor, including inclinometer, accelerometer, electronic ...

Description: Features: ?Heading accuracy: 0.3°~0.5° ?Roll angle measuring range :±180° ?Tilt angle resolution: 0.1° ?Tilt angle accuracy: 0.2° ? Wide Temperature : -40?~+85? ?Size: L:125×W:22×H:24 mm ?With ...

Description: ? PRODUCT INTRODUCTION SMI826C is a display and control integrated equipment independently developed by RION Company. It is equipped with RION brand professional tilt sensor, which can monitor the ...

Description: TL740 DAngular Gyro Sensor ? Azimuth angle output ?Strong vibration resistance ?Light weight ?Long life,strong stability ?Compact & light design ?RS232/RS485 output optional ?DC9~36V power supply ...

Description: heading accuracy: 0.3°~0.5° roll&pitch measuring range:±180° tilt resolution: 0.1° tilt accuracy: <0.2°(full range) working temp.: -40?~+85? size: L110×W19.5×H19.5mm with hard and soft magnetic ...

Description: When working at the nanoscale, every input has seismic impact on a researcher's ability to view, position, or manipulate the object of their attention. Whether the application is in single-molecule ...

Description: Electronic compass, also called digital compass, is the use of magnetic field to set the arctic a method. Ancient called compass, the modern use of advanced processing technology production of ...

Description: How can the manufacturing productivity be shortened with couplings? ...

Description: Size matters in miniaturization and automation - smaller is usually better. Traditional electromagnetic motors have limitations when it comes to shrinking dimensions while maintaining high efficiency ...

Description: Many processes in advanced research and industrial manufacturing can only be performed in a vacuum, such as thin-film sputtering and ion milling, and technologies formerly reserved for exotic ...

Description: The purpose of this discussion is to explain the major contributors to machine positioning uncertainty in systems with laser interferometer feedback near the work point. We will use an example to ...

Description: Many beamline applications such as X-ray microscopy and Computed Tomography (CT) require positioning of samples, detectors, and optics in order to perform measurements. Microscopy applications often ...

Description: PiezoWalk principle shows advantages for Monochromator crystal fine adjustment. ...

Description: As new satellite programs become more popular, such as NASA's CubeSat program, the need for satellite test systems is becoming more urgent. ...

Description: PI recently built a large 300mm diameter rotary air bearing stage for use in a synchrotron beamline test facility. The beamline, when finished, will be used for Macromolecular Crystallography. ...

Description: An insidious nanoscale instability process is the quasi-asymptotic settling due to lubricant flow processes in drive, alignment and adjustment elements such as lead-screws and micrometer drives. It ...

Description: While conventional positioning systems convert the rotary motion of a motor into linear motion using a spindle, PILine® positioning systems are based on a special direct drive. This completely ...

Description: The single molecule force spectrometer described in this paper uses of fast and highly linear piezo stage. This multi-axis stage (model P-313 PicoCube) can run in open loop and provide closed-loop ...

Description: This white paper is intended to provide a better understanding of what this wear is and what it means in terms of product lifetime. Furthermore, it focuses on showing why and under which circumstances ...

Description: The combination of "coarse" precision screw drives for long distance motion and ultra-high resolution actuators such as piezo and voice-coil-based systems allows combining travel ranges up to hundreds ...

Description: When working with air bearings, we often describe the quality of motion as one of the key factors in selecting an air bearing; specifically, the straightness and flatness of travel of linear bearings ...

Description: Thanks to this study, magnetic linear drives now allow for motion in 6 axes with positioning and guiding accuracy,never before achieved, in the range of a few nanometers. This is based on a ...

Description: ABB TZIDC Intelligent Positioner with Remote Sensor helps achieve precise control of the boiler combustion air dampers for reduction of emissions, while reducing maintenance and operating costs. ...

Description: We describe an optical method capable of tracking a single fluorescent molecule with a flexible choice of high spatial accuracy (~10-20 nm standard deviation or ~20-40 nm full-width-at-half-maximum) ...

Description: The form of the malaria parasite inoculated by the mosquito, called the sporozoite, transforms inside the host liver into thousands of a new form of the parasite, called the merozoite, which infects ...

Description: One century after Mie's original paper, Mie scattering is still a fertile field of scientific endeavor. We show that the Mie scattering distinguishes the topological charge of light beams with phase ...

Description: The hair bundle is both a mechano-sensory antenna and a force generator that might help the vertebrate hair cell from the inner ear to amplify its responsiveness to small stimuli. To study active ...

Description: The study of molecular dynamics at the single-molecule level with fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) and far-field optics has contributed greatly to the functional understanding of complex ...

Description: With the goal of safer buildings and saving lives, scientists and engineers, through the simulation of many recent earthquakes, need to test building materials and structural designs. Using either a ...

Description: Compared to traditional methods, the mechatronic design approach is more of a holistic approach to product design, where the tradeoffs between different functional components (software, hardware, user ...

Description: Manufacturers of precision positioning systems are often faced with applications requiring multi-axis stage systems. Usually an object has to move in two, three or more degrees of freedom (DOF) ...

Description: Prior Scientific investigates how PC controlled tables lower positioning system costs. ...