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 ...

Series SxH slides feature precision-machined, high-capacity TC fluoropolymer composite bearings available in travel lengths up to 8 in. SxL slides feature self-lubricating polymer bearings, available ...

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 ...

In an unusual incident, a woman in the United States was shot in her backside after she took a loaded gun into an MRI (magnetic resonance imagining) machine during a doctor's visit back in June.