Position measuring system for concatenated linear motors, - wherein the linear motor comprises at least one primary part and at least two coupled secondary parts or at least one secondary part and at least two coupled primary parts, - wherein the coupled primary or secondary parts (12, 14) in each case are associated with one carriage of a chain of carriages and wherein the entirety of the coupled carriages can move along a track during operation of the linear motor, - wherein each carriage is associated with a position sensor, - wherein the track is associated with a receiver which is sensitive to the position sensor, - wherein the receiver is aligned longitudinally to the track, - wherein by means of the receiver, position information can be generated or output which encodes a position of the position sensor relative to the receiver, and wherein the position information is embodied as a numerical value which can be generated by the position of the position sensor relative to the receiver, and - wherein the receiver has a length at least equal in comparison to a length of each carriage measured in the direction of travel of the carriage, characterised in that - in the case of two position sensors simultaneously located in a detection area of the receiver, namely a first position sensor of a first carriage and a second position sensor of a second carriage coupled to the first carriage, the result is two sets of position information and only the numerically smaller set of position information is used and - that the position information received from the position measuring system is mapped to an angular range of between 0° and 359°. - wherein the linear motor comprises at least one primary part and at least two coupled secondary parts or at least one secondary part and at least two coupled primary parts, - wherein the coupled primary or secondary parts (12, 14) in each case are associated with one carriage of a chain of carriages and wherein the entirety of the coupled carriages can move along a track during operation of the linear motor, - wherein each carriage is associated with a position sensor, - wherein the track is associated with a receiver which is sensitive to the position sensor, - wherein the receiver is aligned longitudinally to the track, - wherein by means of the receiver, position information can be generated or output which encodes a position of the position sensor relative to the receiver, and wherein the position information is embodied as a numerical value which can be generated by the position of the position sensor relative to the receiver, and - wherein the receiver has a length at least equal in comparison to a length of each carriage measured in the direction of travel of the carriage, - in the case of two position sensors simultaneously located in a detection area of the receiver, namely a first position sensor of a first carriage and a second position sensor of a second carriage coupled to the first carriage, the result is two sets of position information and only the numerically smaller set of position information is used and - that the position information received from the position measuring system is mapped to an angular range of between 0° and 359°.