Application Stories (Case Studies) for Linear Motion Products

Linear Actuators Lower Heavy Pallets

Linear Actuators: Optimizing Robotic De-Stacking of Heavy Pallets

PBC Linear designs custom hinged mount for de-stacking system providing enhanced pivoting alignment for…

Aircraft Maintenance Gantry

Aircraft Maintenance Gantry

Local university engineering students were tasked with creating a more fluid linear motion system within an…

Home Building and Drilling

Home Building and Drilling

Residential drill rig company looks to improve precision, increase equipment longevity, and lower overall weight…

Plain Bearings in Cooling Equipment

Plain Bearings in Cooling Equipment

A manufacturing facility of cooling equipment operates its machinery continuously over 24-hours, and needed…

Medical Diagnostics Solutions

Medical Diagnostics Solutions

With PBC Linear technology, a medical device manufacturer was able to greatly streamline the design of… 

Plain Bearings in Earthquake Simulators

Plain Bearings in Earthquake Simulators

To re-capture the conditions of an earthquake, researchers construct what is typically referred to as a “shock…

Silicon Wafer Manufacturing

Silicon Wafer Manufacturing

A Silicon wafer manufacturer needed a vibration free linear guide that could function in a contaminant-free manufacturing…

Luxury Aircraft Interiors

Luxury Aircraft Interiors

Hiller Inc. an established manufacturer of high-quality aircraft furniture and cabinetry, required a lightweight linear…

Automating Circuit Board Assembly

Automating Circuit Board Assembly

A team at Brown University devised a solution to automate printed circuit board assembly in a multi-axis system…

Thriving in the Military Market

Thriving in the Military Market

Installed in rifle gun mount assemblies, Simplicity bearings excel in absorbing high shock forces, even under the…

Pharmaceutical Automation

Pharmaceutical Automation

Pharmaceutical automation cuts dispensing costs, ensures accuracy and increases thru put, allowing pharmacies to…

Simplicity Slides in Underwater Drills

Simplicity Slides in Underwater Drills

Deep underwater in the Gulf of Mexico, an engineering company who specializes in designing custom-need…

Linear Actuator as a Monitoring Device

Linear Actuator Monitors Moisture in Paper Production Line

An MTB042 linear actuator is provided by PBC Linear to a paper manufacturer for measuring moisture content in…

De-Burring System a Success

De-Burring System a Success

De-burring is the process of removing burrs, or excess protruding material, from large gears. The de-burring machine…

Stoneworking and Linear Systems

Stoneworking and Linear Systems

Downtime and routine maintenance robs stone workers of productivity. Utilizing plain bearing technology meant…

Getting Your Flat Screen on Track

Getting Your Flat Screen on Track

The design firm behind the patented Trak-kit system, chose Integral V linear guides to support the heavy moment loads…

Bottling Up Linear Motion

Bottling Up Linear Motion

PBC Linear designed a sophisticated actuator mounting system to handle the palletizing operation of the…

A Lift in a Robotics Competition

A Lift in a Robotics Competition

The FRC (First Robotic Competition) is put on through FIRST and used to provide hands-on design and experience…

Lab and Medical Equipment

Lab and Medical Equipment

PBC Linear was approached to design a fully automated CNC drilling system for laboratory test tube analyzing…

Keeping Equipment Running

Keeping Equipment Running

PBC Linear recommended swapping out the continually failing rolling element bearings with a customized, Simplicity…