Aerotech gantry systems utilize our own brushless linear servo motors to meet the needs of a variety of gantry customers from assembly and electronic manufacturing to vision systems and industrial automation. These industrial robots are available in models from low-cost modular linear actuators assembled in a gantry configuration with matching motion control and drives, to sophisticated gantry models with the largest travel, highest speed, and highest acceleration available. Custom designs are available.

Aerotech air-bearing stages incorporate over three decades of knowledge we have in designing high precision motion control and positioning systems. Driven by our brushless linear servomotors, Aerotech air bearings are perfect in semiconductor , fiberoptics, photonics, and other critical industrial automation applications.

Aerotech's actuators are faster than a ball screw, and more accurate than a belt drive. The LMA and LMAC series actuators harness the speed, acceleration, and accuracy capability of a linear motor for the latest in high-throughput linear actuator technology.

Aerotech’s family of drive rack systems can be configured with up to 6 amplifiers in any combination of brushless, brush, or stepper control. All drive racks have integral circuit breaker switches for over-current protection and convenient power disconnect. Drive rack options include shunt regulators, brake control, and E-Stop circuitry. Custom drive racks can be designed.

Aerotech’s “U-channel” brushless linear servomotors have proven ideal for robots, actuators, tables/stages, fiberoptics/photonics alignment and positioning, assembly, machine tools, semiconductor equipment, electronic manufacturing, vision systems, and in many other industrial automation applications. Aerotech linear motors are direct drive and consist of a noncontacting forcer coil and “U-channel” rare-earth magnet track. This design eliminates backlash, windup, wear, and maintenance issues associated with ball screw, belt, and rack and pinion based motion control and positioning systems. The noncontact design of the forcer and magnet track results in a maintenance-free system. Flat linear motors are also available.

Aerotech manufactures a large selection of linear tables/slides/stages that utilize our own brushless linear direct-drive servomotors, as well as ball-screw models driven with Aerotech brush or brushless rotary motors. Travel ranges for our linear tables range from 25 mm to 1.5 meters. Aerotech’s tables are utilized in high-performance applications in industrial robots, fiberoptics and photonics, vision systems, machine tools, assembly, semiconductor equipment, medical component laser machining, electronic manufacturing, and other industrial automation applications. In addition, Aerotech manufactures drives and motion control solutions that perfectly complement our linear stages.

Aerotech motion controllers are used in our own positioning systems and in motion control and positioning systems throughout the world. We offer PC-card systems in both ISA and PCI with from 1 to 4 axes per card, for up to 16 axes of coordinated control, as well as stand-alone systems for 1 to 4 axes. Our newest motion controller, the software-only Automation 3200, provides from 1 to 32 axes of synchronized control. In addition, Aerotech manufactures a complete line of drives that are perfectly matched to our motion controllers, as well as our brushless linear motors and brush and brushless rotary motors.

Aerotech's rotary motor family addresses the needs of both ultra-precision positioning and high-throughput industrial automation applications. Our motors have among the highest torque-to-inertia ratios available. Brushless rotary motors feature neodymium iron boron magnets for maximum torque and acceleration in a compact package.

Aerotech manufactures a large selection of rotary tables including direct-drive models that use our own brushless rotary servomotors, as well as worm-gear-driven models. Stages are available with many different size apertures, table diameters, and mounting options to provide the ideal solution for your industrial automation application. Wobble and runout performance is outstanding. Aerotech’s tables are used in industrial robots, fiberoptics and photonics, vision systems, machine tools, assembly, semiconductor equipment, medical component laser machining, electronic manufacturing, and other high-performance industrial automation applications.

Aerotech’s goniometers represent a significant breakthrough in the high-accuracy angular alignment of optical components. This unique design utilizes Aerotech’s best-in-class direct-drive noncontact motor technology. Aerotech’s ANT series goniometers provide 20 degrees of travel at an industry-leading positioning speed of 150 degrees per second, with up to 0.013 arc-second resolution.

High-precision bearings, linear encoder feedback, and noncontact and noncogging direct-drive technology assure the highest level of performance and make excellent repeatability and in-position stability a reality. The goniometers can be stacked to provide pitch and roll about the same point in space.

Aerotech lift stages are available with direct drive or lead-screw-based mechanics to provide the ideal solution for your application. These stages feature resolution to 2 nm and travels up to 25 mm, with compact footprints, and are designed for a wide range of positioning applications.

In those cases where a completely automated system is not required, or where one or more axes needs very infrequent adjustment, or perhaps in early proof-of-concept laboratory experiments, Aerotech’s manual stages can do the job. Aerotech offers a line of nanometer resolution, large travel range, rotary, linear and lift tables. These manual stages, which have been used extensively by the major research laboratories throughout the world over the past thirty years, offer excellent in-position stability, high positioning resolution, large adjustment range, and outstanding thermal stability.

Aerotech's AOM family of optical gimbal mounts are designed for highly accurate pointing, scanning and target tracking of large optics, antennae, telescopes, and cameras. They are also used to test and calibrate inertial sensors, gyros, and seeker heads. The AOM family comes in various sizes and capabilities to fit many different positioning requirements. The AOM gimbals provide sub-arc-second resolution in either motorized or manual configurations.

Aerotech photonics/fiberoptics nanopositioners are perfect for high-volume manufacturing automation and components for photonics and fiberoptics systems. Our fiberoptics positioning systems utilize Aerotech’s own brushless linear servomotors for the maximum fiberoptics performance in the most compact package. We manufacture many models of drives and motion controllers to provide a complete fiberoptics and photonics manufacturing package that is virtually maintenance-free and available for 24/7 operation. Aerotech nanopositioners feature the highest closed-loop resolution available with up to six axes of coordinated motion.

Aerotech's ASR series direct-drive spindles are designed to provide superior angular positioning and velocity control for applications including disk drive testing, imaging applications, and precision wafer inspection.

Aerotech has over 30 years of experience
manufacturing turnkey and complete motion
subsystems for some of the largest companies in the world. Our engineers and technicians have developed an array of systems for applications ranging from semiconductor, medical, laboratory, photonics and fiberoptics, laser machining, automotive, packaging, pick and place, and more. We are well-versed in vacuum and clean-room techniques.