DESIGN OF LINEAR MOTION GUIDEWAYS

The Guideway is one of the important elements of machine tool. The main function of the guideway is to make sure that the cutting tool or machine tool operative element moves along predetermined path.The Linear Motion Guideways provide a smooth and linear motion in machine tools, due to which higher accuracy and precision can be obtained. The paper deals with the study of Linear Motion Guideways, its structure, calculations of Guideways, Advantages and Applications in various machine tools where precision is of great importance