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Machines built by PMC customers

Above: Photos of machines built by PMC customers.

  • Precision glass cutter
  • Semiconductor wafer planarizer/polisher
  • step and repeat photolithography system

Every day, PMC motion controllers are at work across the globe, providing precise and reliable motor control for our customers in these and other industries:

Below are some of the hundreds of machinery and instrumentation applications for which PMC motion controllers have been successfully deployed by our customers over the past 20 years.


Semiconductor Manufacturing
Wafer CMP (chemical-mechanical-planarization & polishing) machines
Multi-million dollar semiconductor reticle inspection systems
Laser & electronic beam wafer mask generation and inspection systems
Wafer etch machinery
Automated wafer metrology systems
Step & repeat photolithography systems
MEMS process equipment and advanced semiconductor photolithography systems
Semiconductor CVD (chemical vapor deposition) systems
Optical positioning equipment for microlithography, metrology, laser processing


Electronics Assembly
PCB exposure & bare board test systems
High-speed passive component chip testers
Pick & place die-bonding and chip packaging equipment
Automated pick & place SMT equipment
Laser & electronic beam PCB mask generation and inspection systems
Pick & place machinery for high-speed electronic circuit assembly
Computer disk drive component assembly & testing instruments
Pick and place SMD mounting and inspection systems
Electronic component packaging systems
Computer disk drive manufacturing lines


Test & Measurement
Scanning and tunneling electron microscopes
Non-contact surface metrology instruments
CMM - coordinate measuring machines
Non-Contact thickness measurement systems
Automated microscopic scanning and inspection systems
Laser based measurement systems
Video metrology systems
Digital volumetric 3D microimager systems
Nanoindentation semiconductor wafer surface testing instruments
Laser interferometric image processing, non-destructive testing & analysis
Scanner robots for non-destructive probing and testing of nuclear reactors
Infrared spectrometer
Miniature actuator controls for electro-optical and laser research
Photogrammetric scanners
Nano- and micro-scale material testing systems


Telecommunications
Automated fiber optic component assembly equipment
Specialized communications equipment for military and intelligence applications
Cellular telephone manufacturing equipment


Medical & Laboratory Automation
High-speed slide scanners for tissue pathology analysis
Automated laboratory system for drug discovery and development
Clinical diagnostic instruments
Gene-based testing system for screening and diagnosis of human diseases
Animated head and torso simulator for emergency medical training
Computer guided laser system for corrective vision surgery
Medical diagnostic imaging systems


Basic Research
Multi-magnet beam steering system for nuclear particle accelerator
Telescope and antenna positioning systems for astronomical research
Underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV)
Antenna, optical and sensor positioning systems and components
Wind tunnel control system for aerospace and defense research
Acoustical instrumentation for space research


Printing Industry
Electro-opto-mechanical system for the offset printing industry
High-volume paper processing and handling machinery
Paper slitters for large commercial offset printing presses
Mail handling and sorting equipment
Automated screen printing presses
Prepress system for commercial printers


Machine Tool Industry
CNC glass cutting systems
Industrial CNC tube benders
Precision CNC grinders
X-Y cutting, routing, & engraving machines
High-capacity gantry-based samplemakers for corrugated paper products
Solid state laser micro-welding systems
CNC material cutting tables and plotters
Industrial CNC routers


General Industrial Automation & Robotics
Laser welding systems
Mechanized welding robots
Measuring instrument for online process monitoring
Industrial machine vision automated guidance and inspection systems
Rapid prototyping machines
Machinery for photographic film manufacture
Appliance testing systems
X-ray inspection & analysis machinery
Packaging machines for the pharmaceutical industry
X-Y tables and plotters for cutting patterns in sheet material (vinyl, glass, leather)
Optical grating component and spectrometer module manufacturing machinery
UV laser micro-machining systems
Intelligent welding and robotic control systems