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Applications for industrial grade telescopic rails

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Industrial telescopic guides provide a compact and efficient alternative for applications requiring extendable motion, surpassing conventional motion solutions. In this whitepaper, we explore the benefits of these solutions, highlighting their role in sectors such as industrial handling, medical device manufacturing, robotics, and automation, with a focus on performance, customization, and reliability offered by Rollon.

Telescopic linear guides — with their ability to smoothly extend payloads into and out of a specified volume — are unbeatable for saving space in industrial applications. In many cases, they can also execute motion tasks otherwise impossible except for systems incorporating costly six-axis robotics.

applications for industrial grade telescopic rails

Rollon telescopic rails support heavy industrial loads, engineered for stiffness and stability when cantilevered.

A persistent issue though is how industrial-grade telescopic guides are often confused with lightweight drawer grade slides sold for consumer-grade cabinetry and furniture. Further complicating matters is how exceptionally common drawer-grade telescopic-slide vendors are — and how their products flood online product results — and how so few motion-component suppliers offer true industrial grade telescopic guides. Still, fewer motion component suppliers offer customization programming for tailoring telescopic guides to specific application challenges.

Rollon offers telescopic rails as well as customization services on these products to help OEMs and end users specify and purchase this space-saving linear solution in stock and modified formats that are well-suited for a wide array of specific industrial applications.

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Compact telescopic slides composed of two elements for high rigidity and extensions from 50% to 70% of rail length.
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Telescopic slides composed of three elements with different intermediate profile geometries for high rigidity and extensions of 100% of rail length.
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Telescopic rails with four elements for extractions up to 200% with high rigidity and extensions from 150% to 200% of rail length.

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