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 ...

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 ...

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; ...

When in doubt, make it stout. That was the rule of thumb for designing strong and durable machine tools in the past. Over the years, however, this mindset has changed as technical advances have ...