LEKFS Electric Actuator
LEKFS is SMC high-rigidity electric actuator and slider series. It uses a ball-screw drive and reinforced guide structure for accurate load transfer, repeatable positioning and industrial automation motion tasks.
Facts
- Company: SMC Corporation
- Product type: Component Family
- Status: Commercial
- Capability focus: High Rigidity Electric Slider Actuator
- Website: https://www.smcworld.com/webcatalog/en-jp/electric-actuators-cylinders/slider-type/LEKFS-E/
Market context
LEKFS is SMC's electric slider actuator family for transfer axes, fixtures, compact automation, and machine-positioning workflows around robot cells.
- Target environment: Factory automation, robot-cell peripherals, part-transfer mechanisms, test stations, fixtures, and compact machine axes.
- Workflow context: Linear positioning, part presentation, fixture movement, compact transfer, machine-axis control, and automation-cell motion.
- Customer context: Automation integrators, machine builders, robot-cell designers, and manufacturers using electric actuator modules.
- Deployment model: Actuator module integrated with controllers, motors, machine frames, sensors, power, and application-specific tooling.
- Commercial maturity: Commercial SMC actuator family positioned for high-rigidity linear motion and industrial automation use.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on payload, stroke, speed, guide rigidity, motor type, controller compatibility, and required positioning accuracy.
- Market position: Electric linear actuator component for robot-cell and machine automation.
- Adjacent products: KK Single-Axis Robot, MISUMI Linear Shafts, SHS Caged Ball LM Guide
Workflow
Linear positioning, part presentation, fixture movement, compact transfer, machine-axis control, and automation-cell motion.
Capability
high-rigidity electric slider actuator
Deployment environment
Factory automation, robot-cell peripherals, part-transfer mechanisms, test stations, fixtures, and compact machine axes.
Specifications
- Speed Range: Up to 1500 mm/s in AC servo variants m/s
- Drive Mechanism: Ballscrew-driven slider actuator with high-rigidity guide
- Variants: LEKFS16, LEKFS25, LEKFS32 and LEKFS40 step-motor variants; LEKFS25, LEKFS32 and LEKFS40 AC-servo variants
- Stroke Range: 50 to 1200 mm depending on model and drive type
- Max Payload Kg: 65 kg
- Positioning Repeatability: +/-0.01 mm positioning repeatability in high-rigidity guide configuration
Family specifications
- LEKFS16 - Stroke: 50 to 500 mm - Max Speed: 700 mm/s - Drive Type: Battery-less absolute step motor / 24 VDC - Screw Lead: 5, 10 mm - Max Horizontal Load: 15 kg
- LEKFS25 - Stroke: 50 to 800 mm - Max Speed: 1100 mm/s - Drive Type: Battery-less absolute step motor / 24 VDC - Screw Lead: 8, 12, 20 mm - Max Horizontal Load: 30 kg
- LEKFS32 - Stroke: 50 to 1000 mm - Max Speed: 1200 mm/s - Drive Type: Battery-less absolute step motor / 24 VDC - Screw Lead: 8, 16, 24 mm - Max Horizontal Load: 50 kg
- LEKFS40 - Stroke: 50 to 1200 mm - Max Speed: 1200 mm/s - Drive Type: Battery-less absolute step motor / 24 VDC - Screw Lead: 10, 20, 30 mm - Max Horizontal Load: 65 kg
- LEKFS25 - Stroke: 50 to 800 mm - Max Speed: 1500 mm/s - Drive Type: AC servo motor - Screw Lead: 6, 12, 20 mm - Max Horizontal Load: 20 kg
- LEKFS32 - Stroke: 50 to 1000 mm - Max Speed: 1500 mm/s - Drive Type: AC servo motor - Screw Lead: 8, 16, 24 mm - Max Horizontal Load: 45 kg
- LEKFS40 - Stroke: 150 to 1200 mm - Max Speed: 1500 mm/s - Drive Type: AC servo motor - Screw Lead: 10, 20, 30 mm - Max Horizontal Load: 60 kg
Tags
- Peer Group: Electric Linear Actuators, Linear Motion, Robot Actuator
- Workflow: Industrial Motion Control
- Capability: Robot Joint Actuation, Linear Motion
- Stack Layer: Actuation Layer
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