Precision, compactness and reliability take center stage in appliance and apparatus engineering. The demands on the components used are high: they not only have to be durable and efficient, but also save space and optimize the efficiency of the entire system. Franke wire race bearings and linear guides are ideally suited to these requirements.
Franke components impress with their compact design, low friction and high load capacity. This allows them to be used even in tight installation spaces and helps to reduce the overall weight without compromising on performance. They also ensure smooth operation, which extends the service life of your appliances and minimizes maintenance intervals.
By using Franke Wire Race Bearings and Linear Guides, equipment and apparatus manufacturers benefit from increased efficiency, longer product life and reduced total cost of ownership. Our wire race bearings and linear guidance systems are the perfect choice when it comes to achieving maximum precision and reliability in compact designs and offer impressive performance:
- Low weight for reduced masses during drive and acceleration
- High load capacity and robustness for machining processes and workpiece handling
- High adaptability to special environments (dirt, moisture, clean room, vacuum, food)
Rotary motion - Rolling bearings
Why Franke wire race bearings ensure movement in equipment and apparatus engineering.
Linear motion - Linear systems
Why Franke linear guides score points in equipment and apparatus engineering.
Optimum adaptation to your specifications
Our wire race bearings and linear guidance systems offer outstanding flexibility in drive design thanks to their large center clearance. Thanks to their high level of integration capability, they also enable considerable savings in terms of weight, energy and space.
This is achieved through the free choice of materials and optimum adaptation to the existing surrounding structure. We also offer the option of developing our products individually according to the specific requirements of your applications.
The advantages for you:
- Large center clearance for adaptation to your drive design
- High integration capability in your design
- Weight and energy savings through free choice of materials
- Customized design, possibly as a complete assembly
- Sustainability and resource efficiency through refurbishing
- Individual and series production, even for large quantities
Making lifting easier: with handling systems from Sachs Products
Easy operation and good design: the young company Sachs Products attaches particular importance to these features in its handling systems. Sachs Products uses Franke slewing rings in its Mantis and Vertis manipulators. Their ease of movement, small installation space combined with high load capacity and low weight are decisive benefits for Sachs Products.
Bearing Elements
All you need for your product solution with wire race bearings is a Franke bearing element. Franke bearing elements can be integrated directly into your design. You can easily assemble them yourself. The bearing element can be adapted in form and material bespoke to your requirements, for example by choosing amagnetic ceramic rolling elements.
Bearing Assemblies
If required, we can also design and manufacture complete bearing assemblies for you. These can be mounted even more easily than bearing elements. Franke bearing assemblies are available in every size, with individual bores and toothings and in numerous materials such as aluminium, stainless steel, carbon or as a 3D printed housing.
Rotary Tables / Franke Torque
You prefer a complete solution from one source? Franke offers complete customized positioning and drive units, optionally with proximity switch, coupling and motor. Systems with direct drive are a particular strength of Franke. They are used, for example, in many computer tomographs of renowned manufacturers.
How do you digitize a library?
Scanners are commonplace devices these days. However, when it comes to entire books, standard office devices and their users quickly reach their limits. The Swiss company 4DigitalBooks - ASSY SA manufactures scanning robots that are used to digitize books in national libraries efficiently and gently. 4DigitalBooks has been using linear guides from Franke in its market-leading fully and semi-automatic book scanners for 20 years.
Double rail with cassette made of aluminum
The double rail version consists of only two components: the profile rail and the cassette running on it. Profile and cassette shapes can be adapted individually. It is possible to stabilise the base by means of a wider profile.
Pair of single rails with pair of roller shoes, aluminum
When designed as a pair of individual rails, the guide width can be freely adjusted over the distance between the two rails. Franke supplies rails and roller shoes. The roller shoes are screwed directly to the continuing construction, therefore a cassette plate is not necessary. The shape of the rail profiles and the roller shoes can be adapted individually.
Linear tables with drive
Franke linear tables are linear systems with integrated drive mechanics. In terms of shape, stroke length and design, we are gladly prepared to design linear systems according to your individual requirements.
