By reducing the cost of the magnet plates of linear motor systems, they became available for relatively long distance transport systems. Thanks to these developments engineers at Tecnotion were able to develop a new linear drive in which the coils of the drive systems are fixed and the magnet plates are mobile. Tecnotion does not make use of a ruler for applications up to an accuracy of approximately 0.1mm, instead we measure the accuracy through a "Hall Sensor"-system. Specific to the design of this application was the ability to operate in a vacuum.

Fokker aerospace needed a very accurate, 60 metres long, motor drive for a new, very large, telescope. The engineers at Tecnotion found the solution to this long distance problem to be in a large ironless linear motor system using piezo technology. Because of the necessity of the system to be able to operate in a vacuum, the coils had to be fixed and the magnet plates had to be mobile, like the concept described above. The International Very Large Telescope Delay Line, containing two of these systems, will be placed at Cerro Paranal in Chile.

Ofcourse this is just an example of the many transport problems to which our linear motor systems can provide a wonderful, cost-effective and efficient alternative, especially those that require a high level of positioning control.