Timken Co. on Friday said it agreed to buy Rollon Group, a maker of engineered linear-motion products, from private-equity firms Chequers Capital and IGI Private Equity. Terms weren’t disclosed.

The demand for accuracy and repairability in the industrial linear motion space is driving demand and increasing the market value to $8 billion. The global linear motion systems industry will ...

The Precision Motion Drive System from Amacoil consists of a Model RG rolling ring linear drive integrated with a motion controller. The drive is fully programmable and meets application requirements ...

A rack and pinion steering system consists of a pinion (a circular gear) with a rack (a linear gear). The system works by converting a revolving motion into linear motion. Most cars, small trucks ...

For cheap and accurate linear motion, we couldn’t come up with a build that does better than [Raul]’s.

A new linear/rotary dual-motion actuator has been designed to provide incremental rotational and linear movement of the output shaft. The Size 14 actuator has two degrees of freedom of movement ...

Zhejiang Jiecang Linear Motion Technology produces drive controls for adjustable furniture that is often used for medical, industrial or household products. Founded in 2010, the company is ...

The team prototyped a test fixture that replicates the movement of the device and developed components to assess the linear motion.