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| Experience, Know-How, Design Tools |
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 High-Tech Production |
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R & D—PI's Heart
The heart of PI is the R&D department, where physicists and engineers work on technologies which will fulfill tomorrow's stringent requirements for our customers. With a large percentage of PI's OEM business based on custom-designed products, the wide ranging know-how and long experience of the developers is crucial to success.
PI R&D engineers employ state-of-the-art FEA (finite element analysis) simulation tools and CAD software to develop new electronics and mechanics systems. This assures functionality, precision and performance before the first prototype is ever built. |
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CAD Software (custom 6-DOF Hexapod shown on screen). |
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FEA stress simulation showing wire-EDM-cut flexure joint of a tip/tilt mirror system for astronomical telescopes. |
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CAD software for analog and digital circuit design. |
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Servo-control simulation software (simulation of digital PID piezocontroller shown on screen). |
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A wall-full of patents. PI holds more than 70 patents related to nanopositioning, motion control and piezoelectric drive systems. |
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| Photonics Circle of Excellence Award—one of a number of international distinctions received by PI for product innovation. |
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