UniTrax Motor-Ready Linear Axis Reduces Integration Work
Building a linear axis from individual components means sizing parts, designing mounting features, and assembling and installing each piece separately. Nexen Group's UniTrax motor-ready linear axis combines a Roller Pinion System (RPS) drive, guide rail, and carriage plate in one configurable system. It accepts the customer's servo motor and gearhead. That cuts an estimated 19 hours of labor per axis and gets OEMs, machine builders, and integrators to a production-ready machine sooner.
Applications
- Cartesian robots and gantry routers
- Laser, plasma, and custom cutting and drilling
- Welding
- Non-destructive testing and measurement
Industries
- Food processing
- Metal fabrication
- Woodworking
Who It's For
- Builders wanting rack-and-pinion performance without engineering each axis component
- Clean or dirty environments where exposed lubricant is a problem
- Long travel lengths where belt or ball-screw speed drops off
- Multiheaded systems sharing a common axis
Features:
- Lengths: 3.3 ft (1 m) and 4.9 ft (1.5 m) nominal
- Custom lengths: shorter than 4.9 ft (1.5 m) on request
- Repeatability: ±0.0008 in. (±20 µm)
- Positional accuracy: up to ±0.003 in. (±80 µm) in fully supported top-mount configuration
- Max speed: 13 ft/s (4 m/s)
- Average thrust capacity: 225 lbf (1,000 N)
- Static thrust capacity: 450 lbf (2,000 N)
- Gearhead shaft diameter: up to 0.87 in. (22 mm) via clamp-collar design, covering gearheads through Stober P4 size
- Zero backlash
- Configured to the specified axis length and planned gearhead
- Lubrication-free operation at speeds up to 3.3 ft/s (1 m/s)
- Holds high-speed capability over longer travel lengths
- Optional second guide rail and larger carriage plate for added load support
- Runs as a standalone axis or with a larger carriage plate
- Customer supplies servo motor, gearhead (if needed), and cable management
Nexen Group, Inc.
Vadnais Heights, MN
(800) 843-7445
[email protected]
nexengroup.com
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