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 ...

Machine components developed with the aim of attaining precision of the order of nanometers must be made of stable materials and simple in form. The design must consider even small second order ...

Manual ball slides and crossed roller slides, micrometer stages, and micrometer-driven rotary stages New linear slides and stages, including the SE Series extended-travel manual crossed-roller slides; ...

Low-friction, high-stiffness ball guides support on one rail (top) or two (bottom). The trade-offs for this performance are higher cost and more noise. The shortest path between two points is a ...