Technical Resources

Welcome to the New Way Air Bearings resource guides page. Here, you’ll find detailed technical information, documentation, and support materials tailored to our wide range of air bearing products. These guides include product datasheets, CAD models, installation instructions, maintenance manuals, application notes, and case studies. Whether you are integrating our products into your design or seeking maintenance tips, our resource guides provide the comprehensive support you need to maximize the performance and efficiency of New Way Air Bearings.

This page will continue to grow and expand as we add more resources, and if there is specific technical information you’re looking for that you haven’t found, please reach out directly!

General Technical Resources for New Way Air Bearing Products
Air Bearings—Flat Round and Flat Rectangular

General Technical Resources for New Way Air Bearing Products

Application and Design Guide

New Way Air Bearings® has taken great care to compile all the technical know-how our customers are looking for in one convenient place: The Air Bearing Application and Design Guide. This 70 page PDF forms a comprehensive, start-to-finish document so you can evaluate all aspects of air bearings, and make your decision on our products having the utmost confidence.

FAQS about New Way Air Bearings

You’ve decided to go with New Way® and our frictionless technology to enhance your manufacturing process, but you have some more specific questions about our air bearings.

Air Bearings—Flat Round and Flat Rectangular

Application and Design Guide

FAQS about New Way Air Bearings

You’ve decided to go with New Way® and our frictionless technology to enhance your manufacturing process, but you have some more specific questions about our air bearings. New Way’s air bearings can be easily integrated into your current manufacturing process and have been used in a variety of applications from semiconductor fabrication to vehicle testing to the aerospace industry. Despite the versatility of air bearings we field many common questions from our customers trying to figure out what our bearings are capable of and how they work. Let’s go over some of the more common questions we field. Click here for our FAQS.

Flat Round Air Bearing Installation and Adjustment

We cover how to properly install and measure coplanarity for multiple flat round air bearings

Quantifying Moment Stiffness

We cover how to calculate the moment stiffness of the fluid layer produced by our porous media air bearings, using nothing more than simple algebraic relationships for forces, moments and spring stiffness.