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Linear Actuator Configuration Tools for a Quick Response
Linear Actuator Configuration Tool

Linear Actuator Configuration Tool

Quick Response Figure 1

Quick response with configuration tools

PBC Linear offers an online experience where you create a more precise product, save time, and potentially save money with fewer returns and lower shipping costs. By utilizing our online configurator, customers can be assured that they are getting their intended product. PBC Linear offers these tools for customers interested in both components and mechatronics.

Complex products have intricate configurations and multifaceted pricing, resulting in greater possibility for human error. Our configurator provides a richer experience by drastically reducing the possibility of error. It does this by pre-defining rules that create only valid configurations and more accurate pricing. Our configurator allows you to research different options, making the buying process more self-serving and exploratory, but without the sales pitch. No matter the level of experience, this rich media will provide customers with a unique and better all-around experience.

Linear actuators from PBC Linear come with online configuration for our most popular models. Customers can visualize all possible options and variations, including the impact on pricing. Once the product has been defined and selected, the customers can then review the list pricing to ensure that the selected product meets the budget requirement of their application. This tool also allows you to request a quote, quantity, or your design prototype. Next, it instantly creates a part number that directly matches your requirements. You can then download a CAD model of the customized product as well as a PDF summary with a CAD preview embedded to review with customers or peers.

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Quick response with efficient CAD modeling

PBC Linear actuators are basically a length-controlled product with parts suppressed and unsuppressed depending on what options are selected.

Everything in linear motion is controlled by some sort of equation or rule, as long as the design is a standard and fully developed product. These equations or rules can be entered into Solidworks and Solidworks Excel Design Tables.

Parametric features in Solidworks and Excel:

  • Solidworks/Excel Design Tables allow for efficient engineered CAD that can output prints, assemblies, and models in a matter of minutes.
  • The design table is Excel based, which allows for the use of drop-down boxes, formulas for restricting input, and a user-friendly part numbering system like those implemented by PBC Linear.
  • Solidworks allows formulas that can control the number of spaced tapped holes, features that are patterned, and features extruded to a certain dimension, etc.

The benefits of designing parametric assemblies:

  • Engineering design time is cut by thousands of hours per year, resulting in significant cost savings and fast response to customer needs.
  • Prints are expedited to the shop more quickly, shortening customer lead time.
  • Customers and manufacturers both benefit.
  • Excel and Solidworks are powerful tools which are rapidly becoming engineering necessities.

The end result of implementing these technologies is that PBC Linear can quickly respond to customer needs for CAD support on a wide range of linear motion solutions.