Systems Integrators

Devitt Machinery

Founded by our CEO Drew Devitt, Devitt Machinery is our sister company with whom we collaborate on projects and unique applications. Devitt Machinery is the North American distributor for Moglice and DWH products, and is highly skilled in machine alignment. Previously, New Way and Devitt Machinery worked together on a precision epoxy flooring designed to support flat round air bearings for the field production of wind turbine components.

+Vantage Corp

Now under the umbrella of Robex, +Vantage Corp is one of our oldest industry partners. Started in 2003 to help automotive manufacturers, +Vantage is now a global company for the production of bespoke automation, inspection, assembly and systems integration technologies. Their capabilities cover fully and semi automatic solutions for industries ranging from biotech to aerospace, and New Way products have a home in numerous +Vantage inspections systems which are too sensitive for contact bearings. Additionally, +Vantage produces the Servo Driven Rotary Stage, built on New Way air spindles.

Retrofitting stereolithography stepper machines is no small feat, requiring months of work in close partnership with authorized rebuilders like [company]. New Way has worked with [company] for decades to retrofit Canon stepper machines from the FPA I4, IW and I5 lines with porous media air bearings, replacing the orifice bearings which accumulate scratches and eventually degrade system performance. If you’re considering whether to pursue a system rebuild, New Way works hand in hand with your firm, [company] and Canon themselves to upgrade your system to porous media and provide both long lasting performance, and an 80% cost savings over a retrofit directly from Canon.

IBS Precision Engineering

IBS Precision Engineering is globally renowned for producing measurement, positioning and motion systems, and we’ve worked in tandem on numerous projects both as end users and as systems integrators for a client. The ISARA400 is the world’s most accurate 3D CMM, with a rated accuracy on the order of 50 nm; this positioning is thanks to flat round air bearings. More recently New Way and IBS worked together to develop fully carbon air bearings for SparkNano’s revolutionary spatial ALD technology. If your application revolves around measurement and precision, IBS has the expertise you need.

Sheffield

Sheffield, now part of Hexagon, invented the coordinate measuring machine. Much of the precision and ease of operation for which they’re known is thanks to the frictionless motion of air bearings. To this day we still offer drop in ready, retrofit bearings for many Sheffield products.

Jun-Air

Jun-Air has been supplying air compressors to more than 100 countries since 1958. Their oil free systems are the ideal complement for a porous media air bearing system, to supply clean dry air with low noise levels and long lasting performance.

Alio Industries

Alio Industries, based out of Alvada, Colorado, has been an industry leader in nanometer precision motion, quality control, and systems integration since their founding in 2001. In 2009 they achieved a world first, developing an air bearing lift state, with motion repeatability below 10 nanometers. Alio’s revolutionary Planar XY Air Bearing stages use our off the shelf Boxway Linear Slides, our widest stage designed to accommodate heavy loadings. When combined with Alio’s linear direct drivers, the end result is a system with up to and over 3 meters of travel and less than 100nm of bi-directional repeatability.