{"id":47977,"date":"2022-09-29T15:50:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T14:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.processindustryinformer.com\/product-finder\/product\/round-rail-and-profile-rail-linear-guides\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T14:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T14:04:07","slug":"round-rail-and-profile-rail-linear-guides","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.processindustryinformer.com\/product-finder\/product\/round-rail-and-profile-rail-linear-guides\/","title":{"rendered":"Round Rail and Profile Rail Linear Guides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Round or Square?<br \/>\nSince the introduction of the square, or profile rail, linear guide in the 1970s, the design engineer has been faced with the pivotal question: round or square?<br \/>\nWhile square rails initially cost many times more than round technology due to the extensive grinding requirements<br \/>\ninherent in the design, new manufacturing techniques and economies of scale have allowed square rails to compete<br \/>\neffectively in a broader application space. Once subjugated to the realm of machine tools, profile rails can now be<br \/>\nfound in many of the same applications that were once only supported by round rail. However, ball bushing guides<br \/>\nremain popular due to some intrinsically unique and often advantageous characteristics that lend themselves to specific applications.<br \/>\nIn order to apply the correct type of linear guide in a particular application, the design engineer must consider the advantages and capabilities of each. The cost of selecting the wrong technology can result in a lot of additional design complexity, poor function and cost in the overall assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Let Thomson help you choose the right rail type and carriage. Contact us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Round or Square? Since the introduction of the square, or profile rail, linear guide in the 1970s, the design engineer has been faced with the pivotal question: round or square? While square rails initially cost many times more than round technology due to the extensive grinding requirements inherent in the design, new manufacturing techniques and [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"featured_media":47976,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1326],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-47977","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-linear-guides","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"taxable","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.processindustryinformer.com\/product-finder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/47977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.processindustryinformer.com\/product-finder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.processindustryinformer.com\/product-finder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.processindustryinformer.com\/product-finder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.processindustryinformer.com\/product-finder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.processindustryinformer.com\/product-finder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=47977"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.processindustryinformer.com\/product-finder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=47977"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.processindustryinformer.com\/product-finder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=47977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}