LinMot

• Company: LinMot USA, Inc.
• Product Types: Linear Motors, Guided Actuators, Servo Drives, Magnetic Springs
• Website: linmot.com
• Owned By: NTI AG
• Headquarters: Spreitenbach, Switzerland
• Made In: Switzerland
• Founded: 1997
• Ships from: Elkhorn, WI

LinMot manufactures a complete line of Linear Motors, Guided Actuators, Servo Drives, and MagSpring constant force magnetic springs. LinMot is focused on the development, production and distribution of linear motor systems for industrial applications. Linmot customers will receive sophisticated products which provide the utmost reliability in linear motion and can easily be integrated into their automation and control systems.

NTI AG is a global manufacturer of high quality tubular style linear motors and linear motor systems and thus focuses on the development, production and distribution of linear direct drives for use in industrial environments.  Founded in 1993 as an independent business unit of the Sulzer Group, NTI AG has been in operation since 2000 as an independent company.  NTI AG headquarters are located in Spreitenbach, near Zurich in Switzerland. In addition to three production sites in Switzerland and Slovakia, NTI AG maintains a sales and support office LinMot® USA Inc. to cover the Americas. The US headquarter in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin serves the entire Western Hemisphere providing technical assistance and exclusive LinMot linear motor application & sales support programs.

Whenever translational motions need to be performed dynamically, with low friction and high flexibility, users choose linear systems.The core of the LinMot drive system consists of the control electronics, the servo drive, and the linear motors.  LinMot motors are electromagnetic direct drives in tubular form. The linear motion is produced purely electrically and wear-free, without any intermediate coupling of mechanical gearboxes, spindles, or belts. The linear motor consists of just two parts: the slider and the stator. The slider is made of neodymium magnets that are mounted in a high-precision stainless steel tube. The stator contains the motor windings, bearings for the slider, position capture sensors, and a microprocessor circuit for monitoring the motor.

The internal position sensor measures and monitors the current position of the linear motor not only when it is stopped, but also during the motion. Deviations in position are detected immediately and reported to the upper-level controller. LinMot linear motors can be positioned freely within the entire range of the stroke. In addition, both the travel speed and the acceleration can be controlled precisely. For more complex motions, arbitrary travel profiles can be saved as curves in the servo drive and executed by the motor at the desired speed.