Features & Benefits
Superior Mechanical Motion
By leveraging our knowledge and experience gained in producing the extreme tolerances required for air bearings, ABTech mechanical stages are superior in performance and quality. While cross-roller guides can be purchased from many manufacturers, the key to a high-performance stage is in the geometry and overall quality of the mating components.
Configuration Flexibility to Meet Your Specific Needs
Part of our “Pride in Precision” philosophy means providing you with precisely the solution you need. We don’t believe in selling our customers more, or less, than what their application calls for. Each linear stage is designed and built per order in an effort to tailor the solution to your specific needs. This is why you won’t find a standard specifications sheet or drawings on our website. Each linear stage is uniquely adapted to each customer so that expectations are always met and hopefully exceeded. And with over two decades of listening to our customers, we’ve been able to develop a broad range of options and accessories to address the majority of ultra-precision motion applications.
But no matter how broad our product options may be, we realize that they can’t address every possible application. And that’s what separates ABTech from most other motion suppliers. We won’t say sorry, best of luck. Rather, we’ll connect you with one of our precision motion experts and work closely with you to configure a linear motion solution that will meet your exact needs, including developing custom solutions for the most unique applications.
Options
- Motor drives and controls
- Handwheel/Micrometer drives
- Encoders and digital readouts (DRO)
- Vacuum carriage top and controller to hold sensitive lightweight parts safely and securely
- Custom bolt patterns
Accessories
- Custom fixturing and work holder tooling
- Gage stands
- MicroTIR electronic gage packages
- µTIR-10: display with single lever-type electronic indicator
- µTIR-11: display with single lever-type electronic indicator and encoder interface
- µTIR-20: display with dual lever-type electronic indicators
- µTIR-21: display with dual lever-type electronic indicators and encoder interface
- Granite surface plates
- Structural steel frames with passive vibration isolation leveling feet
Motor Drive Options
With proper selection and integration of high-performance brushless DC servo motors ABTech’s air bearing linear stages provide ultra-smooth and precise linear motion. The motor drives are designed to accommodate a wide range of precision motion applications such as optical metrology, or machining and grinding.
ABTech’s motion experts will gather your specific requirements and work closely with our motor suppliers to create and select a motor drive that suits your specific application. Whether you need sub-micron position accuracy with minimal settle time and stringent following error specifications, or high-speed constant motion, or a combination of both there is an ABTech linear stage that will meet your needs.
ABTech’s modular design approach facilitates multiple system configurations to optimize the price-for-performance required in your application. Our complete engineering services allow us to respond quickly to provide a solution to your OEM requirements for ultra-precision linear motion.
We use 2 ABTech air-bearing spindles with tip/tilt and centering capability in our facility. These units are used for precision assembly and final metrology. We have never had an issue with either one, and the ABTech team is a great partner for us. We will be adding more systems as our young organization continues to grow.Jayson TiersonPresident
Vertex Optics
Every product we sell exemplifies our company-wide commitment to "Pride in Precision" craftsmanship. To that end, all of our products are designed, manufactured, and tested exclusively by ABTech at our New Hampshire facility.