Air Bearings: A New Epoch for Agricultural Technology New Way Air Bearings ® proudly supports a variety of industries, from metrology and semiconductor manufacturing to turbomachinery and rapid machine tooling. Now, we want to focus on a new market with vast potential for improvements in speed, reliability and longevity of operation: Agriculture. Here’s how flat…
Why Semiconductor Production Needs to Change (and How to Get There)
The year has seen serious shortages in markets across the board. Of all of these, perhaps the most impactful to the global economy has been semiconductors chips. These chips are enormously important, with the products they control touching almost every aspect of our daily lives. Keep reading to go deeper into the reasons behind the…
The Top 3 Industries Air Bars are Set to Disrupt
Precision Conveyors Offer New Possibilities to Tech Industries Modern manufacturing has created a whole new ecosystem of machines and processes specially designed for factory automation. Conveyors alone were a $7.73 billion dollar industry in 2020, covering everything from automotive to pharmaceutical applications. However, when it comes to precision tech manufacturing, there is still significant room…
Why Radial Air Bearings are the Future of Precision Rotation
New Way Air Bearings offers a variety of products for both linear and rotary applications, and the foundation of our rotary-focused lineup is the radial air bearing. Radial air bearings provide non-contact support for rotating artifacts with our proprietary Porous Media Technology™, and allow for speeds up to 100 meters per second. Radial air bearings…
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Retrofit Revolution: How Modern Servo-Driven Rotary Stages Transform Old Processes
New Technology Offers Incredible Benefits As evolving technology has changed what is possible for precision industries, the standards for durable, consistent, and ultra-tight resolution have only risen. This can pose a problem for the older machines many companies and research bodies still use. A specialized measurement device can cost tens of thousands of dollars, making…
Retrofitting With Air Bearings Brings Systems Into the Future
Maintaining components and systems past their anticipated life cycle can be a challenge for even the most forward-thinking original equipment manufacturer (OEM.) It can be difficult to anticipate how long a system will last, and if the manufacturer goes out of business, you might be up a creek. At New Way® Air Bearings, we have…
The Top 3 Benefits of Porous Media™ Bearings for Precision Rotary Tables
Superior Performance for All Types of Rotary Table X-ray inspection systems are in high demand. Known for their ability to identify anomalies, they have become crucial to ensuring quality and proper operation across a wide range of applications. These inspection systems function using specialized software to analyze the X-ray images. And, getting an accurate image…
Air Spindles: Now and in the Future
While we may have started exclusively with linear-motion-focused products, New Way Air Bearings® is proud to provide a wide array of products for rotational motion as well—chief among them— the air spindle. New Way Air Spindles are a revolutionary application of our foundational Porous Media Technology™. Whereas our traditional options like Flat Round and Flat…
The Cost of Procrastination: How Contact Bearings Cost Your Business
At New Way Air Bearings®, we’re always committed to identifying ways in which air bearings can improve processes and industries. But, too often we hear from our clients once they’ve already learned this lesson the hard way. Contact systems fail, and the cost of procrastination becomes very real and very expensive. We’d like to take…
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