New Way Air Bearings® has a proud and distinguished history of supporting precision engineering and manufacturing capabilities across a wide array of industries. Now, as our products expand, so do their applications. With recent innovations in our product line, we’d like to highlight what long lasting, non contact motion air bearings can bring to the…
Air Bearings Bring Durability and Crash-Resistance to Precision Manufacturing
New Way® Air Bearings has always been at the forefront of precision manufacturing. And, with precision comes the need for technology that’s both durable and crash-resistant. Whether you’re considering air bearings for conveyance, manufacturing, or inspection stages, our products provide a vast improvement over conventional roller bearings when considering their safety and reliability when things…
How Air Bearings Can Power the Present—and Future
New Way® Air Bearings has always prided ourselves on being at the forefront of technology across numerous industries. From precision manufacturing to medical imaging, our air bearings products reduce defects, speed up production time and have even helped to map the stars. Now we see a new avenue for air bearings to improve our quality…
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See Your Bearing SavingsSee How Air Bearings Move Optics Manufacturing Into the Future!
New Way® Air Bearings has long been proud to support many industries, from automotive testing and healthcare to flexible web handling and semiconductor production. With our proven track record of precision-made products, we felt it was high time that we highlighted what New Way Air Bearings can offer to the optics industry. An industry that…
Walking the Talk: How New Way Uses Air Bearings During Manufacturing
Here at New Way®, we spend a lot of time describing the benefits and applications of air bearings, specifically our Porous Media Technology™. We know that to create products with today’s demanding precision requirements, you need manufacturing equipment and processes to remove error sources, especially those caused by friction. We believe in the benefits of…
Metrology Gets a Boost in Precision Thanks to New Way’s Air Bearings
How Air Bearings Improve Measurement Capabilities New Way Air Bearings® is proud to offer our lineup of air bearing technology for all your metrological needs. Our Porous Media Technology™ is ideally suited to metrology related tasks including: Coordinate verification Roundness checking Flatness control The air bearings’ unique capabilities, provided through Frictionless Motion®️ atop a micro-thin…
Researching Black Holes with the Help of Air Bearings
Air Bearings Provide the Precision for Researching Black Holes Predicted as part of Einstein’s general theory of relativity, black holes have captivated astronomers, while also becoming a figurative description for where money and time go. Black holes recently found mainstream attention with the first-ever picture of a black hole silhouette utilizing an array of telescopes….
Air Bearings vs. Zero Stiction: The Challenge for the Keck Observatory
Solving Static Friction Turns a Skeptic into a Believer in Air Bearings Welcome to part three of our blog series as we follow one man and see how his interest in air bearings changed the operations at two world-class astronomy observatories. In part one, we met Peter Gillingham, an astronomy engineer who implemented New Way®…
Can Air Bearings Overcome the Issues at the Keck Observatory?
Follow Our Air Bearing Enthusiast to Keck to Offer Design Improvements Welcome to part two of our blog series where we continue following the story of one man whose interest in air bearings transformed operations at two world-class astronomy observatories. In part one, we met Peter Gillingham, an astronomy engineer who implemented New Way Air…