ACS and PI: driving innovation forwards together

ACS Motion Control and Physik Instrumente (PI) UK will be attending MachineBuilding.Live in Birmingham on the 4 October to demonstrate how partnering powerful positioning hardware with advanced motion control solutions can help customers to reach the pinnacle of precision.

PI has been supplying state-of-the-art positioning technologies and precision motion control solutions to numerous sectors for decades, so it knows first-hand that nanometres can often mean the difference between success and failure. That’s why it’s constantly developing innovative solutions to provide customers with ever-increasing levels of precision.

New smart actuators encompass this ethos perfectly, combining high resolution piezo positioning with advanced sensing and control strategies to deliver everything from active damping of machine vibrations to next level surface shaping. Additionally, PI’s magnetic levitation technologies offer frictionless, picometre-resolution motion without the need for lubrication, making them ideal for processes taking place under vacuum or in clean-room environments.

This is just a taste of where PI and ACS Motion Control’s drive towards increased precision is taking it, and the company’s continued investment in high level R&D ensures that there are many more hardware performance enhancements in the pipeline.

Visit PI and ACS on stand 68 to see a unique precision motion assembly that demonstrates how combining ACS Motion Control and PI’s technologies can provide nanometre-level, 10-DOF positioning for any industrial application, from electronics assembly and automotive manufacturing to laser processing and semiconductor fabrication.

You’ll also be able to explore an extensive range of state-of-the-art drives, stages, hexapods, air bearings and piezo technologies, and discover what PI and ACS can offer to help your application reach the next level of precision.

In the meantime, take a look at the company’s game-changing solutions here.