In recent years, high-speed and high-accuracy productions are inevitable trend in semiconductor, optoelectronics, and other industries. Therefore, using the linear motor systems in manufacturing equipments, which is able to satisfy industries requirements for high-speed/high-accuracy productions and applications, has become dominant technology to the world’s leading providers of machinery and equipment. This article presents using system identification based on the linear motor, a controller design base on disturbance observer and sliding mode controller with the identified result, and discusses the controller’s performance of positioning accuracy in experimental machine tool table - gantry-typed linear motor system. Furthermore, we also made the traditional controllers and the sliding mode controller to be applied in real system environment, and compare performances of positioning application comparison. Finally, the sliding mode control method can be proved to reduce steady state error effectively by the experimental results, which is able to eliminate disturbance and to show the robustness in the gantry-typed linear motor system with precision positioning applications.