Positioning Equipment Videos

  1. Video: Nanopositioning Systems 11/15/2021

    Shannon from Mad City Labs takes you through the company's product line of nanopositioning systems. Learn about nanopositioners and their key attributes with this informative video.

  2. Precision Motorized XYZ Gantry 10/18/2021

    Motorized Gantry Stages with Direct Drive motors provide higher speed, performance and precision compared to belt-driven gantries or screw driven gantry stages.

  3. High Speed Gantries And Multi-Axis Stages 10/15/2021

    High speed and high precision gantry stages and XYZ motion stages provide the basis for industrial highly accurate laser machining and 3D printing processes. Fast linear motors provide frictionless motion with zero wear, in contrast to screw and belt driven gantries and stages. Non-contact linear motors not only provide higher speed and precision but also increased reliability.

  4. Fast Focusing Motor With Nanometer Precision 10/15/2021

    PI's Next Generation objective nano-positioners for microscopy and surface metrology provide higher speed, precision and longer travel ranges up to 800µm, along with easier integration. Applications for nano-focusing stages include multiphoton fluorescence microscopy, optical coherence tomography, wafer surface inspection and laser materials processing.

  5. Video: Direct Drive Air Bearing Rotary Table 10/15/2021

    The A-688 Direct-Drive Air Bearing Rotation Table is motorized with a 3-phase high performance direct-drive torque motor. It is guided by air bearings and provides a large aperture - ideal for transmitted light test and metrology applications.

  6. Space Qualified Piezoelectric Transducers On The Mars Rover 7/12/2021

    After successful testing for 100 billion cycles, high performance piezoelectric transducers were by the Mars Rover to determine if life ever existed on the Red Planet. 

  7. Downhole Communication, Wireless Hydro Acoustics, Underwater Communication W/ Advanced Piezoelectric Sound Transducers 7/12/2021

    Piezolelectric sound transducers can be used for wireless downhole communication, sonar applications, and long distance underwater communication up to several kilometers.  PI’s piezo transducer division specializes in the design and manufacture of standard and custom piezoelectric transducers for industrial, medical and research applications.

  8. Ultrasound Transducers: Industrial Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Transducers 7/12/2021

    Ultrasound can be used for industrial inspection and automation - the technology is similar to the one know from medical ultrasonic imaging. Piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers also find applications in non-contact distance measuring, structural health monitoring, object recognition and measuring instruments for volume, filling level, distance and acceleration.

  9. High Performance Piezoelectric Transducers 7/12/2021

    Ultrasound transducers can generate nanoliter droplets, faster and more precise than other technologies. These advantages are used in high performance industrial ink-jet digital printing.  PI's piezoelectric design and manufacturing division specializes in custom designs for industrial applications from non-contact precision dosing to ultrafast drop-on-demand generation.

  10. Gantry Stage Systems 7/6/2021

    Active Yaw Control with Gantry XY and XYZ stages allows for error compensation with better straightness and orthogonality. Active yaw control can also be used to make the two bottom linear module stages of the gantry actively rotate over small angles, if the necessary flexure elements have been designed into the gantry system.