Why Lin? Here are the top 10 reasons
Lin - The Leader in Step Motor Technology

Overview

Over the past decade, Lin Engineering has gained a tremendous amount of market share and earned a reputation as the "Leader in Step Motor Technology". Why are more and more engineers choosing Lin Engineering?

Here are the 10 reasons:

	1. Leader in Step Motor Technology Since Lin Engineering was founded in 1987, their specialty has been the development and manufacturing of high quality, precision step motors.  Ted Lin, Lin Engineering’s Founder and CEO, has 10 patents on step motor technology with a few more on the way.  What more can be said about being the leader in step motor technology?
2. 97% Customer Retention Rate As a valued business partner, Lin Engineering strives to solve the clients’ issues.  Having the technical know-how and engineering capability doesn’t hurt either. Over the years they have helped our customers overcome a wide variety of issues by working with them and providing the right solution.  With their unrivaled technical support and dedicated customer service team, they have a 97% customer retention rate since the year 2000.
	3. Highest volume manufacturer of the 0.9 step motor With over a half a million 0.9 step motors being manufactured annually, they are the highest volume manufacture in the industry.  Being #1 didn’t happen by accident; the 0.9 motors have proven over and over again that they are superior in both quality and performance.  Coupled with short lead times and affordable prices makes this is an unbeatable combination.
4. Best microstepping motor in the industry The 0.9° series steppers are the most accurate in the industry as they were designed to succeed in applications requiring extremely high accuracy and smooth motion.  The accuracy of Lin’s 0.9° stepper at 64 times microstepping is 1.5 arc minutes while the industry average is +/- 4.0 arc minutes.  What does that mean?  Each step that the motor takes is 0.9° divided by 64, or, 0.014°.  With every step that’s taken, the maximum error from a Lin motor will be a mere 0.025°.  That’s up to 30% higher accuracy from a Lin motor!
	5. The China experts Working closely with China One of the key ingredient’s to Lin Engineering’s success over the years has been the quality of their relationships with suppliers. Whether the supplier is domestically located or overseas, they are held to the same high standards. A vital aspect of our supplier relationships is the fact that they are considered to be Business Partners, not just suppliers. Therefore, Lin Engineering works very closely with the suppliers. The results have been invaluable to their success. Recently, manufacturers in China, particularly those with consumer goods, have received a lot of bad press regarding the apparent low quality of the products that they manufacture. At Lin Engineering, exhaustive efforts are taken to ensure that the products received from China, as well as other overseas countries, is of the utmost quality. Investment: Lin Engineering have invested an immense amount of resources to help ensure that the products received from overseas are high in quality. Linex, a manufacturing facility, serves to accommodate the needs of many high volume customers. Over the years Linex has grown and consistently produced high quality motors. Education: Rather than accepting lower standards than those that implemented in their U.S. facility, Lin Engineering's approach has been to educate their partners overseas and demonstrate the necessity and importance of consistent quality, Statistical Process Control, and other key measurements of quality. Successful Results: Over the years, they have seamlessly transferred the manufacturing of high volume accounts to their overseas facility. Not only has this resulted in a great cost reduction for customers, the level of quality has remained high as well. Recent developments have been the capability to produce lead free, or RoHS compliant, products and the implementation of the Six Sigma way.
6. Custom motors in 1 week Their U.S. facility (located in the heart of Silicon Valley in Santa Clara, CA) has on-site technical and design engineers as well as an assembly line dedicated to the design and manufacturing of prototypes and samples. Engineers will work with you on your desired customizations no matter how simple or complex they may be. Best of all, most customizations are available within 1 week.
	7. Designer's corner plus Designer’s Corner Plus puts access to some of the most unique engineering tools available at your fingertips.  Users of Designer’s Corner not only get access to the patent pending online step motor selection tool, LinSelect, a new forum, step motor basics, white papers, and much more have also been added as well.
8. Quality you can count on Lin Engineering have invested an enormous amount of time and capital in order to ensure that their internal and external quality practices are at the forefront of the industry. In fact, one of the reasons that more and more engineers are turning to Lin Engineering is due to their reputation for developing and manufacturing high quality and consistently reliable products. Recent developments include: - Six Sigma Certification - RoHS Compliancy Majority of Lin Engineering's product line is now available as RoHS compliant. Non compliant motors are still available on a case by case basis for industries such as aerospace and extreme environmental applications that cannot accept lead free and RoHS compliant components due to a higher requirement for safety and extreme conditions.
	9. The College of Lin Engineering With over $60,000 in annual funding, the College of Lin Engineering provides their employees with a continuous educational program to improve our capabilities for value innovation.  One of the main reasons why Lin Engineering has continued to grow and capture more market share over the years is because of experienced and knowledgeable staff.  The College of Lin Engineering creates a forum in which the firm’s goals, values, and operational performance are shared and promotes a culture that rewards integrity, loyalty, and accountability.
10. Winner - Design World's Leadership in Engineering Design World’s engineering community chose Lin Engineering as the 2008 Leader in Engineering for the Motion Control Industry.

Important Notes:

1. Photography is illustrative only
2. E.&O.E. (Errors and Omissions Excepted)

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