The drive screw is the next piece of our project. Commercial units use linear ball screws or linear gears. The commercial parts aren't cheap, but you can get away with some 1/4-inch threaded rod ...

New acoustic sensors from THK GmbH, Ratingen, Germany, promise to diagnose damage to linear guides and ballscrews without having to dismantle machine tools. In addition, the Acoustic Emission (AE) ...

Linear motors, ball screws, and precision rack-and-pinion gear drives are all good options for engineers designing electromechanical linear-motion systems. Rack-and-pinion drives have the longest ...