When it comes to specifying linear motion within a machine, system designers have many options from which to choose. Making the right choice can impact the ease of installation, footprint and cost of operation.

The following article is a round-up of the latest linear motion product and industry news items featured at www.powertransmission.com and on social media.

The complete Product News section from the December 2019 issue of Power Transmission Engineering.

Change can be daunting, nerve-wracking or even downright scary. But when we're faced with change in our lives, it's not the change itself we fear. It's the unknown elements that come with it. "You don't know what you don't know," a wise man once told me.

The team that was awarded the Guinness World Record in 2017 for the longest distance covered by a miniature steam train is setting its sights on im...

How well do you know your public gear art? Match wits with the Power Play travel team by trying to identify the locations of these awesome works of public art. Answers at the bottom of the page!

The complete Industry News section from the October 2019 issue of Power Transmission Engineering.

One show we might not talk about enough is Power-Gen International, one of the biggest U.S. trade shows in the energy industry you can attend that will be going on November 19-21 in New Orleans.

In this paper, the models for different power loss sources in transmissions from literature are applied and compared, which form the two methods - ISO 14179-2 and the joint model to estimate the power losses in a transmission. A 2-speed transmission in an electric vehicle is used as a case study to compare the two methods and validate them with experimental data.