Involved in Many Process Steps

The Customer in Focus: Much More than Technology, Components, and Systems

In all of these applications, the ability to precisely control the motion and position of objects with nanometer and even sub-nanometer resolution and high dynamics, or to hold a position precisely over the long term, without power requirements, plays a decisive role.

PI offers decades of know-how and a wide range of technologies – including piezo transducers, developed and manufactured in our PI Ceramic subsidiary, sensors, piezo actuators and motors and air bearing motion systems with 3-phase linear motors drives to controllers, software, and firmware – as well as components and systems. Together with our subsidiary ACS Motion Control, a market and technology leader in industrial high performance, EtherCat-based controller technology, we also enable the control of highly complex multi-axis systems for the next generation of demanding applications in semiconductor manufacturing all the way up to EUV-L.

Advanced Design, Copy Exactly, and Global Services

Advanced design alone is not enough. It is our long experience as a supplier to leading system integrators in semiconductor manufacturing that enables us to understand and meet the high demands of this industry. With customer-specific service level agreements (SLA) and a global service team, we can react promptly to disruptions occurring on short notice. To this end, we have set up service hubs with highly qualified staff near the world's most important semiconductor production locations, where we keep spare parts for all critical components and assemblies. Based on extensive long-term tests of our components under a wide variety of climatic conditions and a Copy Exactly strategy, we offer our customers a high level of security against failure from the outset, i.e. high uptime. Also, PI has created clean rooms that even meet the exceptional cleanliness requirements that are required in the manufacture of components for EUV lithography.

On The Way to The Next Big Thing

The success factors of the semiconductor industry, in particular continuous miniaturization of structures, will ensure innovations for a long time to come. And PI has exciting answers ready for the increasing demands on precision in motion control and high-performance positioning. And the semiconductor industry is changing at a faster pace than at any time since the invention of the integrated circuit. While Moore’s Law continues its relentless advance to drive ever-smaller feature sizes and higher performance and efficiencies, it is no longer just about smaller transistors on larger wafers. Now micro-optical components are being fabricated alongside microelectronics, and entirely new computing and communications paradigms are emerging which leverage the mysteries of the quantum world. As the applications change, so do chips, and the revolution proceeds. PI is right there, partnering with the leaders of change.