• Linear actuators
• High performance cylinders
• Telescopic pillars
• Rotary actuators

Superior performance
Electromechanical applications often require superior performance from actuators and actuation systems. SKF provides a complete range of actuation products and systems designed to satisfy the most demanding requirements in virtually any area of applications.

Wide product range
The assortment includes telescopic pillars, linear and rotary actuators as well as control units, providing complete solutions for various applications as well as a defined standard range.

Our capabilities and solution offers
With 60 years of experience and millions of actuators sold, SKF offers extensive knowledge and quality in application engineering, for almost all areas of applications all over the world, with proven capability in the actuation business.

• Roller screws
• End bearings & Flange accessories
• Ball screws

The high efficiency screws afford the opportunity to displace loads by transforming rotary action into linear motion. The high efficiency screws have rolling elements, balls or rollers, between the nut and the screw shaft.

How to orientate your choice
In our wide range, you are sure to find the product which fits exactly your requirements:

• The miniature ball screws, either with ball recirculation by integrated tube or with inserts, are very compact. Backdriving makes them highly efficient.
• The large ball screws enable you to select the right level of requirement: simple transport screws, very fast screws with long lead, or preloaded screws for more precision.
• Ground ball screws for more rigidity and precision
• Roller screws which are far beyond the limits of any ball screws as for heavy loads, ultimate precision and rigidity, high speed and acceleration and very difficult environments.

• Shaft Guiding
• Precision rail guides
• Miniature profile rail guides
• Miniature slides
• Profile rail guides
• Standard tables
• Speedi-Roll

Guiding
To provide the best performances for all your needs in guiding, our range is composed of these main products: shafts guidings, profile rail guides, precision rail guides, camroller guides.

Main benefits:

• Shaft guidings: economical and simple, unlimited stroke, self aligning feature, adjustable preload, high sealing performances, also in corrosion resistant version.
• Profile rail guides: unlimited travel, good rigidity capable of withstanding moment loads in all directions, ready to mount, ease of maintenance and reliability.
• Cam-roller guides: easy mounting, unlimited linear travel, high linear speed, economic solution.
• Precision rail guides: modular range, different rolling elements cages, high precision, high load carrying capacity and stiffness, also with anti-creeping system.
• Miniature slides: compact design, high carrying capacity, high running accuracy, long endurance life, high stiffness, easy assembly.
• Standard slides: several driven or guided versions, fitted with SKF standard components, wide range of strokes and load capacities are available.

• Motor driven units
• Non driven units

Superior performance
Positioning tables system applications often require highest performance from the tables in terms of dynamic, guiding accuracy, guiding stiffness and temperature stability.

Compact and economical
Positioning systems are compact and economical solutions for guided and driven applications. The product assortment ranges from compact, non driven slides to highly dynamic, multiaxis systems with linear motor drive. Systems may also be designed to meet special requirements.

• FX mechanical bushing
• SHR Bushings with unslotted case
• SHT Bushings with slotted case

In this range, you will find very useful products to make shaft and hub connection easily, without using keys. These products offers many advantages : Easy and accurate to position, saves space along the shaft, quick mounting and dismantling, reduces the machining costs.

• General purpose slides
• Carriage slides
• Special slides
• Cable guides

Accuride slides offer some of the most popular slide types used within industrial and electronics packaging applications. The range of general purpose slides is for more standard applications and includes cable carriers and rackmounting accessories. The specialist range is for more unique and specialised applications such as inmobile equipment and other functionally demanding situations or environments. In addition, some of these slides can be manufactured to order in stainless steel.

• Belt driven modules
• Pneumatic driven modules
• Screw driven modules
• Modules without drive
• Linearmotor driven modules

With a large variety of units designed for a modular construction, compose the correct system for your application. Choose the units you need : Linear module, linear slide, linear table, actuator or electro-mechanical cylinder driven by tooth belt, screw, pneumatic cylinder or linear motor. All these products are constructed with extruded anodised aluminium profiles with monobloc design for optimal stiffness. They offer many options and accessories.

• Angular contact ball bearings
• Angular contact thrust ball bearings
• Cylindrical roller bearings

High performance bearings
Machine tools applications require superior performances from the bearings used to support spindles and precision ball screws. SKF produces special high precision bearings designed to satisfy the most demanding requirements in the machine tools environment.

The use of high precision bearings allows better performances in terms of speed capability, system temperature stability, rigidity, accuracy and noise level; such characteristics are rarely met by bearings for general-purpose applications.