Industry: Semi conductor
Schneeberger products:
- Customized bearing
- Profiled miniatur guideway MINIRAIL with balls
- Miniature profiled linear guideway with integrated distance measuring system MINISCALE PLUS with balls
- Linear bearing, available also with cage assist
- Frictionless table and slide with rollers and balls, available also with cage assist
- Positioning- and motion system
- Mineral casting
- Profiled linear guideway MONORAIL BM with balls
SCHNEEBERGER Linear bearings and miniature guideways in the Semi-conductor industry
Customer requirements
There is an ongoing tendency in minimizing in the semiconductor and electronic industry. Consequences are very demanding highly accurate positioning axis in the sub-micron range for the supplier of such complete production and metrology systems. In the same time, because of competitions, cost factors became more and more important. One of our customers is a leading supplier of laser metrology systems in the semiconductor industry.
SCHNEEBERGER solution
Standard linear bearing has been replaced by SCHNEEBERGER high quality MINIRAIL.
Customer advantages
There is not anymore an individual preloading process of all the axis and therefore a stable preload value and stable accuracy. At the same time the assembly time and costs of the stages could have been reduced.
Article/Example of application
Branche_Halbleiter.pdf Automated assembly systems with high positional accuracies guarantee the vibration free running of SCHNEEBERGER MINIRAIL.
2014_PR_Bericht_Minirail_TR_09_14.pdf With a high-precision, compact servo press for loading watch movement plates, SCHNEEBERGER MINIRAIL miniature guideways ensure high precision, ease of movement and strength.
The secret of linear technolgy From standard components to complete systems, SCHNEEBERGER offers a unique spectrum of products and services. And we do it all for our customers’ benefit.
Linear technology combined with integrated measuring system and mineral casting Combining linear technology with mineral casting offers unbeatable customer benefits.