PI launches custom turnkey system design and manufacture service
The UK office of mechanical positioning technology manufacturer Physik Instrumente (PI) has launched a dedicated application and product customisation service, designed to meet growing demand for complete, bespoke, mechanical positioning systems.
"PI Custom Motion Systems will scrutinise a customer's application, examining everything they need from a motion perspective and possibly more," said the company's managing director Kevin Grimley.
"We will then advise the customer what we propose for the various motion stages, the mechanical hardware, motors etc. and we will take full responsibility for all of it. So for the first time we will be able to tell the customer exactly how we expect the system to perform with all those parts assembled and be able to stand by it, which is very exciting."
Prior to the launch, customers had to take a 'best of breed' approach and would research, order and buy particular parts or subsystems from a variety of competing suppliers.
Without complete system responsibility, however, suppliers could not guarantee ultimate performance for parts supplied and incorporated into finished systems by others.
"With this new service we're taking things to a higher level in terms of what we're offering the customer, but we'll also be able to expand the market for our existing range of several thousand products," Grimley concluded.
