Speed Manufacturing and Assembly

This slide product’s ability to self-align speeds the manufacturing and assembly process. Its floating load plate automatically adjusts misalignment.

 Properly ground load plates—rather than the less expensive and lower-quality stamped plates—provide greater control over load-bearing capabilities and precision accuracy of the unit. By designing the load plates with a circular arch contact to the ball element, you get the result of greater dispersion of the entire load, which enables the linear bushing to provide up to three times greater load capacity than typical linear bushings. This equates to more than 27 times the travel life over conventional slide bushings. Newer, optimized load plates have been developed for optimum load-bearing capabilities that are another 1.3 time higher, which increases travel life by 2.2 times.

5 Tips For Improved Ball Screw

Slide Guide Incorporation

Tip 1: Use pre-assembled components.

This eliminates error and readjustments, reduces size and will outperform conventional positioning tables. There is a tremendous choice of component shapes and sizes available in pre-assembled units.

Tip 2: Choose a U-shaped guide rail slide block. 

The "U" shaped guide rail and slide block provide the multiple functions of a guide block and ball screw nut combined into a single unit. 

Tip 3: For best rigidity, choose the 4 ball circuit style slide block. 

Also, the "U" shaped guide rail offers high rigidity against bending moment and can even be cantilevered.

Tip 4: Provision for mounting sensors.

Be sure you have the option of specifying a sensor-mounting rail (the same length as the guide rail length). Then photomicro sensors or proximity sensors can be attached after tapped holes are machined on both sides of the guide rail.

Tip 5: Look for a supplier that has in-house engineering.

They’ve dealt with innumerable applications and can prevent unintended consequences.

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The Difference a STUDROLLER™ Makes

"Though the bearing is positioned horizontally in our device, the reason we wanted the anti-creep feature was because this product is meant for high speed and high force, so we did not want the cage in the cross-rollers to move. Once it all gets assembled, all the optics are aligned, your talking a huge expense to change it to try to service it and correct the cage on the order of a couple of hundred thousand dollars. By putting this anticreep feature in there, we are not concerned about it at all, it will never move.

Generally you use the anticreep for vertical applications or high speed, high precision and high acceleration, which is what this product is designed for."

 A Different Slideway

For Compact Applications

This upgrade of our SV slideway has 2X the Allowable Load and 7X the Rated Life Distance.

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Customer Quote of the Month

“If something were to happen – say it (a bearing) wears out over time - and everything wears out – it is so easy to replace the bearings inside an NB pillowblock as opposed to the competition."

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