Linear Motion Systems and Applications Blog - PBC Linear®

PBC Linear is incorporating technological enhancements into its production systems with the Hitachi Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS)… 

Design engineers in the food packaging, bottling, pharmaceuticals or similar industries are continually faced with challenges to…

Plain bearings are rated by their limiting pressure velocity (PV), which is a combination of load over a given surface area. PV must be…

Understanding the method to properly inspect the Frelon liner in PBC Linear’s Simplicity plain bearings is essential to taking full advantage of…

Round shaft technology and bearings offer linear motion solutions for many medical applications, any place linear adjustment is… 

PBC Linear can specially modify, integrate, or adjust products to custom fit your application. Product optimization can include anything from…

By utilizing plain bearing design, Gliding Surface Technology (GST) offers low profiles, compact sizes, and smooth, quiet linear motion… 

PBC Linear has a large selection of miniature linear motion products from ball-type to self-lubricating guides and a selection of driven…

Ensuring that the shafts are parallel is important in dual shaft linear motion applications. Follow ten easy steps to simplify the alignment of…

Two round shaft plain bearing technologies are explored from both a tribological standpoint as well as variation in application performance. The…

Simplicity linear plain bearings exhibit real benefits over other styles of linear bearings; such as the self-lubricating quality of the bearing’s… 

PBC Linear has a full range of bearings that, together with their profile counterparts, can set your ideas in motion. Simply put, we have the...