Linear Motion

Exploring how innovative ServoBelt technology provides a cost-effective alternative to oversized gantry systems without sacrificing industrial-grade performance.

Overhead pick and place gantries are critical to modern automotive plants, but massive steel fabrications designed for extreme payloads create a critical mismatch for small and medium applications. ServoBelt™ technology offers a cost-effective alternative without sacrificing industrial-grade performance. Discover how advanced beam engineering and customizable systems deliver the speed, precision and reliability high-volume production demands — and with half the lead time of over-engineered solutions.

Motion stages with moving motors can provide greater performance than traditional recirculating belt drives with static motors.

A wide variety of industries operate factories with large-format manufacturing lines, creating a need for long-travel motion axes and transfer robots. Some of these gantry and Cartesian robots can reliably traverse distances of 50 meters or more as they transfer materials and parts around aerospace, automotive, prefabricated construction and other large scale factories.

Cartesian robots with the right design upgrades can take over manual transfer operations with ease

Manufacturing and packaging operations that still depend on manual material or parts handling operations can reap immediate benefits from a type of automation based on long-travel Cartesian robots with custom end-of-arm tooling (EOAT) and advanced sensing capabilities. These robots can support a variety of machines — performing otherwise manual tasks such as machine tending or transferring in-process parts — making long-travel Cartesian transfer robots a major upgrade to processes and operations.