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PI is a privately held company that designs and manufactures world-class precision motion and automation systems including air bearings, hexapods, and piezo drives at locations in North America, Europe, and Asia. The company was founded 5 decades ago and today employs more than 1500 people in 15 countries. Our customers are leaders in high-tech industries and research institutes in fields such as photonics, life-sciences, semiconductors, and aerospace.
PI’s in-house engineered solutions have enabled customers around the world to increase their productivity and technological advantage. With a large basis of proven motion technologies and methodologies, PI is in the position to quickly modify existing designs or provide a fully customized OEM solution to fit the exact requirements of your application from sensors and piezo transducers to microscope nano-focus units, fast photonics alignment systems to multi-axis automation sub-systems.
The Benefits of Custom Direct Drive Motors
Combining High Force, Nanometer Precision, and High Dynamics with Hybrid Actuators
Referencing Class Nanopositioning Stages with Interferometric Position Sensors
Inertia Motor-Based Miniature Positioning Mechanisms - Overview of Applications and Performance
Hexapod Parallel Robots Automate Highly Precise Production Processes
What is the Difference between Piezo Ultrasonic Motors, Inertia Motors and PiezoWalk Motors - Short Design Principles Overview
Nanometer Precision for Industrial Automation Using High Performance Motion Controllers and Advanced Positioning Stages
Advances in Nonmagnetic Nano-Precision Mechanisms and Positioning Stages for Electron Microscopy Applications Under Vacuum Conditions
Precision Motion Control and Positioning Systems - How Do They Work – What Performance is Available?
Why Medical Equipment Design Engineers Move Towards Piezo Transducers and Piezo Ceramic Motors
Nanometer Precise Motion with Stepper Motor-Driven Positioning Stages? Advances with Precision Mechanics, Modern Controllers and Error Mapping Algorithms
The Benefits of Using Piezo Transducers as Generators, Transmitters and Receivers of Ultrasonic Waves
Fast, Accurate Automatic Testing of Photonics Components Suitable for Industry
PI nano XY and PI nano XYZ - Long Travel and Low Profile Piezo Nanopositioning Systems for Microscopy Applications
High-Dynamics Solid State Linear Motor Actuator for Continuous Laser (Grating) and Spectrophotometer Tuning from Physik Instrumente
Piezo Flexure Nanopositioners and Scanners – An Introduction to Piezo Flexure Nanopositioners and Scanners
Nanopositioning - Recent Advances Including Parallel Kinematics, Active Trajectory Control, Vibration Suppression and Tracking Error Elimination
Enhanced Nanopositioning Resolution Using Patented DAC, Digital to Analog Converter, Control Technique Known As HyperBit
Parallel Kinematic 6D Alignment System with Sub-Micrometer Accuracy
Adaptive Mechanics Provides Multi Axis Motion with Sub Nanometer Flatness and Sub Rad Yaw, Pitch and Roll
Ultrasonic Piezoelectric Actuator for Nanopositioning - The Design and Operation of Ultrasonic Nanopositioners
Hybrid Nanopositioning Actuators with Large Travel and Extremely High Resolution
Piezo Actuators, Environmental Influences Like Temperature, Humidity and Atmosphere on the Performance and Behaviour of Piezo Actuators
New Hexapod Applications for Precision Motion Control, from PI
PI to Present New Technologies and Innovation Talks at LASER World of Photonics
Direct-Drive Linear Stages for Automation and Laser Processing
6-Axis Photonics Alignment System based on Air Bearings
Control Your Hexapod Using Your iPad
Enabling the Production of Photonic Devices