Machine Building

Linear guides with integral encoders chosen for positioner

LG Motion used Schneeberger Monorail AMS series linear motion guide bearings with integral magnetised track linear encoders in a recent project to design and build a large X-Z detector positioning system for the I24 Microfocus Macromolecular Crystallography (MX) beamline at Diamond Light Source.

13th September 2009

Draw-wire sensors chosen for medical applications

Chris Jones, Managing Director of Micro-Epsilon (UK) Ltd, discusses how draw-wire displacement ('string pot') sensors are used for critical applications in medical operating theatres, including X-ray machines, CT scanners, patient tables and flexible surgical arms.

13th September 2009

Ball screw jacks are key to radio telescope dish accuracy

Power jacks supplied ten 50kN metric ball screw jacks in a translating screw configuration to the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, to drive the elevation on twin-array radio telescope antenna dishes and achieve the required pointing accuracy of better than half a minute of arc.

25th August 2009

Ball screw jacks selected for radio telescope dishes

Power jacks has supplied ball screw jacks to the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, to drive the elevation on radio telescope antenna dishes.

25th August 2009

Customised actuators keep Centre Court roof locked in place

Power Jacks has supplied 42 customised electric linear actuators for use as locking devices on the Wimbledon Centre Court retractable roof, 36 of which operate when the roof opens and closes.

25th August 2009

Ball screw jacks offer advantages over hydraulic rams

Power Jacks has supplied its E series ball screw jacks to BNS Nuclear Services for use in a Graphite Handling System that processes waste components from a nuclear power station.

25th August 2009

Nuclear inspection equipment features electric linear actuator

Power Jacks has supplied a custom-engineered electric linear actuator and four E-Series machine screw jacks for specialist inspection equipment used in a nuclear power station.

25th August 2009

Triple-lip-sealed bearings achieve rapid pay-back

NSK has supplied triple-lip-seal bearings to a food processing company, thereby solving a problem with water ingress and saving the customer over £77,000 per year.

23rd August 2009