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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.
What is Optical Active Alignment
Using Piezoelectric Positioning Equipment in Nanoscale Microscopy & Imaging
The Benefits of Piezo Technology in Super-Resolution Microscopy
Precision Medical Motors and Actuators - Fast Becoming the Choice of Medical Device Manufacturers
Multilayer Piezoelectric Actuators - Properties and Performance of Ceramic and Polymer Coated Multilayer Piezo Actuators by Physik Instrumente
White Paper on Improving Performance in Photonics Alignment: When Time is Money
Low Cost, High Performance Stepper Motor Translation Stages / Linear Slides for Automation
A Brief Demonstration of PIMag® Magnetic Direct Drives
A Wide Range of Integrated Solutions from PI
Additive Manufacturing using PI Piezo Actuators
Advanced PIMag® Gantry System
Basics of PiezoMike Linear Actuators with PIShift Piezomotor
Broad Portfolio of Products from PI
Compact Drives for Piezoelectric Micropumps by PI
Complete Solutions for Electronics Manufacturing from PI
Demo of PI’s Direct Position Measurement
Demonstration of Flow Measurement and Bubble Detection using PI Ultrasonic Sensors
Demonstration of Interferometry and Optical Coherence Tomography
Demonstration of PI’s Precision Products
Double Hexapod PKM System for Synchrotron X-ray Spectroscopy
Easy-to-Operate PI Hexapods for Fiber Alignment
Easy-to-Start Hexapod Controllers from PI
Fast Multi-Channel Photonics Alignment System for High-Throughput Silicon Photonics
Fast, Stable, and Accurate PI Positioning Equipment for Super-Resolution Microscopy and Imaging
Heavy-Duty Lifting and Rotating Platform from PI
Hexapod 6-Axis Motion Systems from PI
High-Dynamic Hexapod from PI
Image Stabilization and Microscanning with PI’s Piezo Scanners
Innovative H-811 Hexapod System from PI
Innovative Motion Control Solutions from PI for Laser Material Processing
Innovative Range of Piezo Inertia Drives from PI
Innovative Range of Precision Motion Products from PI USA
Laminography Instrumentation from PI
Latest Air Bearing Products from PI
Microscopy and Quality Assurance System from PI
Modern Technology Center at PI
Multilayer Piezo Actuators from PI Ceramic
N-565 Piezo Motor Linear Positioner from PI
Narrow Precision Drives from PI for Adaptive Diaphragm Positioning
New Labeling Machine from PI and Tirelli
New Modern Visitor Center at PI
NEXLINE® Piezo Stepping Drives from PI
Operating Principle of PI Nanodispensers
Overview of ACS Motion Control
Overview of Confocal Microscopy
Overview of PI Hybrid Stage
Overview of PI’s Automated Silicon Photonics Processes
Overview of PI’s LPS-65 Linear Piezo Stage
Overview of PI’s Q-821 Q-Motion® Miniature SpaceFAB Robot
Overview of PILine Rotary Drive Principle
Overview of PIMag® 6-D Magnetic Levitation
PI Animation on ‘Piezoelectric Effect’
PI Ceramic Offers All-Ceramic Multilayer Bender Actuators
PI Ceramic Offers Piezoceramic Solutions for Industry and Research
PI Ceramic Uses New Spray Drying Tower for Material Preparation
PI Delivers MiQA System to KIT
PI Designed VeriMove Hexapod Software for Collision Testing
PI Displays Motion Centric Industrial Automation Solutions at Hannover Messe 2017
PI Ironless Linear Motors- Working Principle
PI Offers Compact PILine® Ultrasonic Piezomotor Technology
PI Offers Complete Solutions for Photonics and Fiber Alignment Applications
PI Offers Dynamic, Cost Efficient PIMag® Voice Coil Drives
PI offers Fast Multi-Channel Photonics Alignment Systems
PI Offers High-Precision Nanopositioning Systems
PI Offers Motion Centric Industrial Solutions for Industrial Automation
PI Offers NEXLINE® PiezoWalk® Motors
PI Offers Non-Sensitive Piezo Drives for Magnetic Resonance Therapy
PI Offers Parallel-Kinematic Nanopositioning System with Capacitive Sensors
PI Offers Piezo Flexure Nanopositioning Systems
PI Offers PiezoMike Linear Actuators Equipped with Position Sensors
PI Offers PInano® and PIFOC® Objective Sample Scanners for Microscopy
PI Offers Positioning and Microscopy Solutions
PI Offers Q-Motion® Inertia Drive
PI Offers Q-Motion® Miniature Linear Positioning Stage Q-521
PI Offers Q-Motion® Miniature Linear Stage Q-522
PI Offers Q-Motion® Miniature Rotation Stage Q-614
PI Offers Q-Motion® XYZ Miniature Positioning Stage
PI Offers Specially-Shaped Piezo Disks for Nebulizers
PI Offers Versatile C-885 PIMotionMaster
PI Parallel Kinematics for Piezo Positioning Systems
PI Participates in LASER World of Photonics 2017
PI Piezo Motors Ensure Uniform Force While Pipetting with Small Devices
PI Piezomotors Now Available in Various Designs
PI Positioning Solutions with Direct Drive Servo Motors
PI Products Showcased at Laser World of Photonics
PI Products Showcased at SPS IPC Drives 2017
PI Showcases its Piezo Technology Products and Applications
PI Solutions for Research and Industrial Applications
PI’s ACS Motion Control Solutions Showcased at Drives & Controls 2018
PI’s Advanced Positioning Systems for Microscopy and Imaging Applications
PI’s Beamline Instrumentation for Micro Tomography
PI’s CIPA-Certified Hexapods Test Image Stabilization
PI’s Fast Multichannel Photonic Alignment Solutions
PI’s High-Precision Drives for Use in Refractive Eye Surgery
PI’s Magnetic Linear Motors—Principle of Operation
PI’s NEXACT® Piezo Stepping Drive
PI’s P-616 NanoCube® - Highly Compact Piezo System
PICMA-Walk V8 Piezo Linear Motor with Nanometer Precision
Piezo Ceramic Materials and Components from PI Ceramic
PiezoMove® Flexure Actuators from PI
PIglide Air Bearing Technology
PILine® Piezomotors—Operating Principle
PI's Q-Motion® Piezoelectric Inertia Drives
Portfolio of PI’s Precision Motion Technologies
Precision Motion and Positioning Technologies from PI
Products, Technologies, and Applications of PI Ceramic
Q-Motion® - PI’s High-Resolution Positioning Systems
Recap of PI’s 2017 Open House Day
SpaceFAB SF-3000 System from PI
Ultra-Precision Rotation Stages from PI