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THK Co., Ltd. is the Japanese company that commercialised rolling-contact linear motion in 1972, a year after its founding in Tokyo in 1971, and its LM Guide remains a standard component inside machine tools, semiconductor equipment and industrial robots. Its recorded range covers LM Guides, ball screws, electric actuators and robot solutions, supplied from 37 manufacturing sites and sales operations worldwide. Buyers comparing motion components also check control, drive and plastics specialists that sit alongside linear guides in the same machine. Beckhoff, founded in Verl, Germany in 1980, supplies PC-based control, its TwinCAT software and modular robot systems, with customers in more than 75 countries. Bonfiglioli, founded in 1956 and headquartered at Calderara di Reno near Bologna, supplies precision gearboxes and AGV and AMR drive platforms through its Motion & Robotics division. Festo, founded in Esslingen in 1925, supplies pneumatic and electric drive technology and process automation to about 300,000 automation customers. igus, founded in Cologne in 1964, makes motion plastics and sells low-cost automation, cobots and linear robots in more than 80 countries. Choose THK for linear motion guides, Beckhoff for PC-based control, Bonfiglioli for gearboxes and drives, Festo for pneumatic and electric drives and igus for motion plastics.

Alternatives to THK

Beckhoff

Beckhoff Automation is a family-owned German automation company, founded in 1980 and headquartered in Verl, best known for PC-based control: its TwinCAT software turns standard PCs into real-time machine controllers, and its EtherCAT fieldbus is a de-facto standard in high-performance automation.