New Pick and Place machine arrives at Castle

[Snipin_Willy]

Originally Posted by TexasSP

So the linear drive probably increases speed and accuracy quite a bit over a screw drive? I am sure there is some kind of high resolution encoder detecting position?

That's a nice machine, I can imagine the excitement right now in the shop!

From my limited knowledge of machines that's exactly what linear drives are, much faster and very accurate.