Back in the 1980s, Pacific Bearing Co. (PBC) invented and commercialized plain bearings, which were sized to be interchangeable with linear ball bearings. Plain bearings worked very well in certain ...

The ability to mount and move equipment is essential to any modern manufacturing plant. Many factory and machine setups have doors, cages, containers, and panels that move to allow workers access to ...

Keith Kowalski is Vice President of Technology and Robert Pulford is an Application Engineer with Haydon Switch and Instrument Inc. The linear step motor, or linear actuator, first came into being in ...

Some linear shafts have axial or radial holes for mounting to support structures. Others are grooved for the placement of snap rings or channeled for keyways. Most linear shafts are made of aluminum, ...

Engineers are increasingly required to specify linear motion systems capable of handling heavier payloads at higher operating ...

Rolling element linear-motion bearings guide, support, locate, and accurately move machinery components and products. Rolling element linear bearings and guides ensure low friction, smooth, accurate ...

Allient Inc., a global designer and manufacturer of advanced specialty motor, Motion, Controls, and Power products and ...

A complete, ready-to-teach lesson on graphs of linear motion, written for OCR A Level PE H555/01, 1.3.b Linear motion. This is A Level-only content, and it covers OCR’s requirement to plot and ...

A complete, ready-to-teach lesson on describing linear motion, written for OCR A Level PE H555/01, 1.3.b Linear motion. This is A Level-only content. Students begin with a simple puzzle: how can a ...