Profile: Rockwell Automation Inc., Anorad Brand specializes in air bearing platforms, multi-axis precision gantries, linear and rotary positioning stages, linear servo motors, servo controls & drives, and anocast polymer composite bases. We are ISO 9001 certified. Our Microglide platforms feature precisely engineered air bearing systems. These bearings glide on a pressurized thin film of air to support an applied normal load. Repeatable precision is achieved by maintaining a constant air gap, only microns thick, using a variety of highly stable pre-loading techniques. Since air bearings distribute their load over a relatively large and extremely flat area, they have built-in averaging effect that compensates for any minor irregularities in the reference surface. The nested N type configurations employ a frame-in-frame design. This enables full access to both sides of a workpiece fixtured to the innermost frame. The nested systems use a variety of air bearing pre-load methods to maintain accuracy, even in travels up to 320 mm.